RIS System For Easy Organization of Patient Medical Records
RIS Systems (Radiology Information System) makes patient record keeping simple and manageable. Used in conjunction with PACS, (Picture Archiving and Communications System) you will be able to view, archive, distribute and acquire digital medical images for one-third of the regular price of PACS systems. A RIS radiology system also saves your medical office money on personnel costs while keeping the office or clinic running smoothly.
RIS PACS provide a central point from which ease of use and cost effectiveness emanate. An RIS PACS software system can be run on a personal computer with Windows, MacOS or Linux operating systems, turning the computer into a clinical workstation. Radiology PACS allow you to convert film images, including x-rays, mammograms, CT scans, MRIs, ultrasound and images from other modalities, and turns them into digital images. Digital images on an RIS system can be digitally enhanced to make the medical images easier to read, with better diagnosis as a result. Digital images may be printed out on dicom printers if hard copies of the images are needed. A paperless medical office is possible with radiology PACS because medical images can be sent to other clinical workstations utilizing the world wide web and secure socket layering.
Radiology PACS commonly support the following features:
- Patient Registration
- Patient Scanning
- Result(s) Entry
- Reporting
- Result(s) Delivery including faxing and e-mailing of clinical reports
- Patient Tracking
RIS Systems Provide Significant Benefits
Cost savings are an attractive benefit from using digital imaging systems such as the PACS RIS. Hard copy patient medical records require personnel for maintenance, filing and retrieval of the records from a large space used for storage. With a digital DICOM archive, authorized medical personnel may access the medical records at a clinical workstation, thus eliminating paper and film copies and the costs associated with them.
RIS PACS integration allows you to register patients, take care of patient and exam tracking, schedule appointments, enter test results, create reports, and deliver those reports. Multiple procedures can be scheduled at the same time. Patient data including patient statistics can be entered into the system. Some systems come with built-in dictation capabilities, and that, along with RIS imaging, makes it simple to perform the routine tasks that must be accomplished in the course of a workday while streamlining the process so that the work is done quickly yet accurately.
Integrated RIS PACS can be used to great effect in small and medium-sized medical offices, mammography offices, dental and veterinary clinics, as well as radiology departments, podiatry offices, chiropractic offices and imaging centers. What has held small offices back from using digital imagery is the prohibitively high cost. Now Dicom Solutions offers RIS and PACS systems that come in at one-third the regular price, making it easy and affordable to go digital.
