Being a radiologist means that a generic Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software will not work best for your practice. For a suitable EMR Solution, you should look for a software that is designed specifically to meet the needs and requirements of your radiology practice, hence a Radiology EMR Software would be the best choice.
This will surely benefit your radiology practice as it has the following set of unique features that work together to streamline radiology specific workflows. (The significance of these features is discussed in the Radiology EMR Software Buyer’s Guide.
- Codes specific to radiology practices, ICD/CPT Codes.
- The EMR Software should integrate seamlessly with X-ray, CT-Scan and MRI equipment and devices.
- Presence of advanced visualization tools.
- Speech recognition feature.
- Automated Referral Tracking System.
- ONC-ATCB certification of the radiology Electronic Medical Records Software. This validates that the EMR Software has met Meaningful Use objectives.
- Note-taking facility through handwriting recognition.
- EMR Software should have the ability to analyze data that is generated from every patient.
- Pre-loaded radiology specific content and templates to support radiologists through the treatment process. These templates include chest radiology, breast imaging, cardiovascular radiology and many more.
The extent of features doesn’t stop here because when we talk about the next generation of radiology EMR software, Singularityhub in an article claims that with the help of Artificial Intelligence and software Deep learning EMR Software is now becoming capable of interpreting radiology and pathology slides. It also claims that Radiology EMR Software will be able to detect has cancerous regions in real-time, with 93% accuracy.
Before selecting a radiology EMR Software a radiologist may consider certain factors as to what size of practice does the software suites and the software deployment whether it offers a server-based or a web-based solution.
The selection process can be overwhelming for a radiologist. In order to simplify things for our customers, the experts at EMRSystems have prepared a list of top 5 Radiology EMR systems in the United States.
