CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- National Decision Support Company (NDSC) continues to
experience rapid expansion of its client base, including notable
statewide implementations. As a result, ordering providers now
access the company's flagship solution, ACR Select, more than 1
million times per month—all from within their EHR order entry
workflow. ACR Select provides real-time feedback on the most
appropriate imaging test for a patient's condition and has been
implemented at over 100 healthcare systems nationally, representing
over 800 individual facilities.
"We've seen widespread deployments across health systems and
imaging groups in a number of states, including Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, South
Carolina, New York,
Connecticut and Virginia," said Michael Mardini, CEO, NDSC. "This critical mass
adoption is a significant achievement for our organization and
speaks to the value our clients place on the completeness of ACR
Select." This increase in utilization further validates that the
medical community truly values the delivery of EMR-embedded,
actionable and credible evidence-based guidance. Furthermore,
the adoption rate and trajectory is a reflection of the acceptance
and advancement of the understanding of how to value and leverage
the EMR to improve the overall efficiency in patient
care. "We feel fortunate to be able to participate
during such a special time in the evolution of health information
technology," said Mardini.
According to Dr. Justin Chang,
VP, Resource Stewardship, Hospital Service and Contracting, Kaiser
Foundation Health Plan of Colorado, "by leveraging the 3,000
search-enabled clinical indications contained within ACR Select,
ordering providers are able to correctly match over 90% of their
medical imaging orders to clinical indications contained within ACR
Select within their first month of clinical use."
With the recently announced update to the ACR's Appropriateness
Criteria, ACR Select now covers over 15,000 clinical end points in
addition to the more than 3,000 clinical scenarios.
"Covering almost 1,000 individual CPT codes, ACR Select reflects
the efforts of thousands of physicians, representing 27 medical
specialty societies, working over the past 25 years and grading
nearly 6,500 peer-reviewed articles," said Mardini. "It is the most
complete corpus of imaging content available and a living,
breathing library as each new implementation creates an opportunity
to improve the offering and expand not only the criteria through
our advanced authoring tools, but the delivery platform
capabilities as well."
The utility of ACR Select assumes even more significance now
that clients are living in an ICD-10 world. "Accurately
capturing a structured reason for the exam at the point of
encounter will ensure we can accurately protocol and interpret the
exam," said Dr. Colin Segovis,
Radiologist, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
In addition to reaching a new adoption milestone, the company is
installing its first site in Vermont. "The fact that Epic was completely
behind our adoption of ACRselect was a big plus for us in our
decision to choose ACR Select," said Dr. Kristen DeStigter, Interim
Chair, Department of Radiology, University of Vermont Medical Center. "Decision
support has huge potential for us and at the state level, we're
already piloting prior authorization exemptions for spine MRI." The
experience in Vermont has
proven that by streamlining the ordering process, and using
the ACR Appropriateness Criteria as a guidepost, provider
organizations can improve the physician and patient experience.
"Leveraging ACR Select, we'll be able to extend our imaging
stewardship across all care settings and modalities through
EHR-integrated decision support and extend the reach of our
accountable care organization to cover imaging.," said
DeStigter.
ACR Select continues to evolve from years of experience and
hundreds of installations as NDSC focuses on meeting the needs of
the market. "We are committed to offering powerful authoring tools
to help address local clinical and payer requirements, creating
clinical scenario and pathway driven workflows, adding Google-like
search capabilities, and adding advanced reporting and analytics,"
said Mardini.
NDSC will be demonstrating its latest developments, including
integrations with leading EHRs, at RSNA 2015, booth #3153,
November 29 – December 3, 2015, Chicago, IL.
About ACR Select
ACR Select is a digitally published
version of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness
Criteria (AC), which covers more than 1,000 exams, 3,000 clinical
scenarios and 15,000 discrete clinical endpoints. This
market-validated gold standard Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) was
created over the span of 25 years by thousands of
physicians—representing more than 20 medical specialty societies
reviewing over 6,500 discrete pieces of evidence—and has been the
standard for virtually ever payer-driven utilization and quality
management program for more than two decades. The process to author
these criteria exceeds the rigor specified by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Protecting Access to
Medicare Act of 2014 for provider-led entities to author qualified
AUC.
About National Decision Support Company
National
Decision Support Company (NDSC) provides integrated solutions for
developing, maintaining, accessing, delivering, and analyzing
actionable, standards-based Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for
imaging, lab, and the healthcare enterprise. The company partners
with healthcare provider organizations and national medical
societies—including American College of Radiology (ACR), American
College of Cardiology (ACC), and European Society of Radiology
(ESR)—to structure content and deliver it through physician-centric
workflows. NDSC's clinical solution set provides physicians access
to the latest evidence-based approaches to medicine, allows
providers to develop and deliver local care pathways and protocols,
and lets healthcare organizations continuously analyze the impact
that AUC has on care delivery without disrupting the doctor-patient
relationship. For more information, visit
www.NationalDecisionSupport.com.
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