Study Reports, Accreditation & Much More
Every day, non-invasive vascular laboratories are judged on their ability to increase patient volumes, control costs, maximize revenue, and maintain quality and gain accreditation. They also are subject to medical and legal imperatives to keep appropriate and necessary records. TRAKnet Lab is a solution to all of these business challenges. Software algorithms assign the right billing codes, and reports can analyze cost by exam, type and sonographer, as well as rank studies based on revenues.
QA Meetings No Longer a Chore
ICAVL standards were revised in 2005 to require formal quality assurance (QA) meetings. A minimum of two vascular laboratory QA conferences are now required. Typical agenda items include a review of results of comparative studies, planning to address discrepancies, and discussions of difficult cases and general laboratory issues.
TRAKnet Lab’s quality assurance reports help you determine how accurately your studies correlate to final diagnosis, and can turn data into knowledge. TRAKnet Lab QA reports are absolutely essential to running productive, and now required, QA meetings.
ICAVL Accreditation Made Easy
Meeting noninvasive vascular laboratory accreditation standards is hard work and expensive, and many Labs with limited resources don’t bother to try. Even with the e-application, it takes dozens if not hundreds of hours to collect and summarize study and correlation data. And Labs may no longer submit handwritten applications. Yet many Labs are committed to accreditation since in many states, Medicare reimbursement hinges on either ICAVL laboratory accreditation or technologist certification.
For first time, or re-accreditation applications, TRAKnet Lab software offers an easy solution. Its direct download to the ICAVL Electronic Application eliminates most of the tedious work, and eliminates mistakes that can be made in transcribing data.
“It’s hard to say, but we must have saved at least 150 hours using TRAKnet Lab in completing our accreditation electronic application” Ken Mudd, Vascular Lab, Murfreesboro, TN
DICOM Compatible
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is a global information technology standard that is used in virtually all hospitals worldwide. And DICOM will be required by all electronic health systems that include imaging information as an integral part of the patient record.
TRAKnet Lab DICOM network compliance is a reality through export of TRAKnet Lab study reports, containing patient demographics, study measurements and report images to popular PACS (Picture Archive Communication Systems) and RIS (Radiology Imaging Systems) imaging databases. This is an important step forward in development of universal patient electronic medical records. This feature also ensures that studies performed by BioMedix test devices, such as PVL (Portable Vascular Lab) and PADnet Lab, as well as available imaging studies that are collected in TRAKnet Lab are now available for export in DICOM format.
DICOM SR
For scheduled release in 2008 is an upgraded version of DICOM known as DICOM SR, or DICOM Structured Reporting. With DICOM SR, data collected by any imager which uses a standard DICOM protocol can be transferred to the TRAKnet Lab database through a secure TCPIP Ethernet Local Area or Wide Area Network. This means that all study results data may be imported automatically, saving time and reducing transcription errors.
For More Information about ICAVL Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories http://www.intersocietal.org/icavl/accreditation/whyitcounts.htm.