OVERVIEW
Group Type
Multi-facility, women's health care center.
Group Profile
Women's Diagnostic Center is located in
Louisville, Kentucky, and performs 50,000
procedures annually, including digital
mammography, diagnostic breast
ultrasound, stereotactic biopsy, ultrasound
guided vacuum assisted biopsy,
ultrasound guided cyst aspiration and
bone density studies.
Facilities
Women's Diagnostic Center
Women First
Total Woman
Louisville Physicians for Women
Women's Care Physicians
Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Goals
In selecting a Mammography Information
System vendor, Women's Diagnostic
Center was focused on the following
requirements:
- User friendly structured reporting
- Patient tracking across multiple facilities
- Flexible QA reporting
- Interface with Practice Management
System
- Enterprise wide HIPAA compliance
- Integration with PACS
- Deployment across Wide Area Network
"While the focus is always on
patient care, we must also make
sure that the group is being run as
an effective business enterprise.
MagView has been very useful in
this regard as well. With MagView,
we have seen a savings of more
than $50,000.00 a year in
transcription costs alone."
–Cris Vittitoe
Practice Manager
Women's Diagnostic Center
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MagView delivers an enterprise wide mammography information
management solution for structured reporting and centralized
tracking.
As one of the leading Women's Centers in the Southeast, Women's Diagnostic
Center in Louisville, Kentucky is committed to providing their patients state-of-the-art
care with the most advanced equipment available.
Women's Diagnostic Center was developed in 1986, with a focus on breast cancer
detection based on screening mammography. The mission of the group and its
physicians has been to provide the women of Louisville and the surrounding areas
the highest level of care, respect, and understanding.
Once open, word of the new center quickly spread, and the patients began to pour
in. "Our volume increased tremendously, and it soon became apparent that we
needed a more efficient solution for physician reporting and patient tracking," says
Practice Manager Cris Vittitoe. "We selected the Magview system because we were
impressed with its flexibility, and the ways it could be customized to suit our
individual needs".
The physicians began using the structured reporting in MagView and observed an
immediate decrease in the turnaround time for the reports and letters to the patients.
"Once we started using MagView, we were able to achieve a reporting turnaround
time of less than 24 hours," says Vittitoe.
MagView also allowed the group to improve their patient tracking workflow, and
ensure that no patient fell through the cracks. "The tracking and outcome
monitoring features have allowed us to easily keep up with all regulatory
requirements, and most importantly, make sure no cases are left unresolved," states
Operations Manager Teresa Costello.
In addition to improved patient care, the center was able to realize a significant
return on their investment. Cost savings were achieved through a reduction in
transcription cost, as well as increased efficiency with patient tracking and
regulatory compliance. "Since implementing MagView two transcriptionists have
been able to keep up with our continued growth. We could never go back to
dictation and be able to provide the quality of service our referring physicians have
come to expect," states group owner Dr. Art McLaughlin.
As the group has grown, MagView has been an important partner in supporting the
changing needs of the group. Observes Costello, "Women's Diagnostic Center
considers MagView and their team to be an integral part of our working family."
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