HOW WE HELP
We understand the struggles medical organizations have when creating or management a cardiac CT program.
OUR PROCESS
With the new ACC/AHA chest pain guidelines putting Cardiac CT as a class 1 recommendation for patients with suspected stable and acute chest pain, the paradigm for testing and reimbursement has changed dramatically and many hospital systems are in urgent need for developing cardiac CT programs or improving their quality and efficiency.
Our goal is to support health care entities with the organization and implementation of cardiac CT First programs through proven leadership, knowledge, and resources of high functioning cardiology services which quickly equip your team with the skillset to provide efficient, high quality Cardiac CT services that promote retention and growth of cardiology and other downstream services.
Discover
Plan
In today’s staffing shortages and clinical teams that work overtime, we will identify opportunities for increased efficiencies for your teams, providing bandwidth to efficiently implement a productive high quality cardiac CT program that results in more accurate diagnosis of cardiac disease, better patient outcomes, expedited return on investment, ability to retain patients and grow your cardiac program. Patient capture and retention results in higher utilization throughout your health system. We will identify gaps, deficiencies, and opportunities for increased efficiencies in your current process and develop an individualized plan to strengthen and grow your program.
Develop
We provide complete education and support for cardiac CT optimization, equipment selection, workflows, scanners and medication protocols, team organizations (nurses, techs, nurse navigators, physician readers) but also help with billing, scheduling, reimbursement, etc. Working with your teams, we will take what we learned in discovery and planning to create the structure and processes to develop and grow your cardiac CT program. These will be designed to streamline your operations through focus on standardization of processes that are customized to your organization.
Implement
Once development is completed, we will plan a visit to your site to help you with implementing processes you have created for operating your program. We will assist you with CT scanner and medication protocols, patients scanning and any one-on-one targeted help that is needed. We will be available on as needed basis afterwards if new questions and challenges arise.
Improve
The final and most rewarding stage is to see your program grow and produce high quality imaging that will improve your patients’ outcomes, satisfaction and ultimately lead to a profitable, successful program. In addition, you will notice higher patients retention, referral base and increase in downstream services for your healthcare system.
What Our Process Includes
- Assessment of current state CAC, CCTA, FFRCT, workflows, volumes
- Knowledge of current guidelines, outcomes, and data with CCTA and FFRCT
- Knowledge and experience of optimization of CCTA throughout
- Streamlining workflows
- Standardizing processes from referring through scanning
- Support for optimal quality scanning
- Optimize team organization/roles
- Understanding (local) reimbursement and downstream revenue of the CCTA and FFRCT program
- Support equipment purchases
- Improve program efficiencies (from referral to time on the scanner)
- Explain perspectives from Imaging Cardiologists, Interventional Cardiologists, Nurse Navigators, and Administrators
- Help improve scan quality and clinical outcomes
- Support reading coverage
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Our cardiac CT program became one top 5 busiest programs in US and improved efficiencies and resource utilization and long-term outcome in patients with CAD.
