Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group, Inc., teams with scisolutions.com to streamline patient and resource scheduling
System Will Improve Scheduling Efficiency, Increase Revenue
Sacramento, Calif. and Los Gatos, Calif. – November 30, 2004 – Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group, Inc. (RAS) the largest private radiology practice in Northern California, today announced that it has implemented the revolutionary scisolutions.com solution to service its network of Diagnostic Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology, and Medical Management services. Partnering with SCI Solutions, the leading application service provider (ASP) for healthcare access management, RAS is using the cutting edge scisolutions.com technology to support its complex patient and resource scheduling requirements.
According to Craig Roy, CIO, RAS, "Throughout its history, Radiological Associates has introduced important new radiological methods to the Sacramento community, and implementing scisolutions.com is no exception". He added, "scisolutions.com provides comprehensive resource management, enabling our users to schedule rooms, equipment and staff, and apply extensive conflict checking to ensure that resources are maximized but not overbooked."
During implementation, RAS loaded over 14,000 future appointments into scisolutions.com, and expects to schedule a minimum of 500,000 appointments per year, for over 20 locations. "Our relationship with RAS highlights scisolutions.com's strengths in the complex radiology environment," stated John Holton, CEO SCI Solutions. "We are confident that scisolutions.com will further increase RAS market share, reduce patient wait time for procedures and improve patient satisfaction with both scheduling efficiency and efficiency of the appointment visit."
According to Fred Gaschen, Executive Vice President, RAS, "We are experiencing impressive gains in the average number of monthly procedures by using our equipment more efficiently. We are scheduling procedures more tightly which subsequently allows us to serve more patients on a daily basis." Additionally, the scisolutions.com system triggers comprehensive and consistent communication between RAS staff and patients, at the time of scheduling, so that each patient receives prompt and complete instructions about necessary pre-procedure requirements.
About Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group, Inc.
Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group, Inc. (RAS) is the largest private radiology and radiation oncology practice in Northern California providing the full range of radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation oncology services through 23 centers located in the Sacramento area. For additional information, visit www.radiological.com.
About SCI Solutions
SCI Solutions, creators of scisolutions.com, is dedicated to providing Success-Critical Information solutions to streamline pre-encounter workflow processes for healthcare providers. Delivered as an ASP, scisolutions.com's award-winning enterprise-wide scheduling and pre-registration functionality, combined with integrated revenue cycle and self-service modules, allows hospitals to connect disparate processes by linking the pre-encounter experience with back-end billing and collections, positively impacting both customer satisfaction and the bottom line. Founded in 1999, SCI Solutions is headquartered in Silicon Valley with an additional office in Tucson, Ariz. and employees nationwide. For more information about SCI Solutions and scisolutions.com, visit www.scisolutions.com.
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