Sectra RIS

Sectra RIS is an enterprise-class system that has been designed from the ground up to support the complex workflow, data migration and integration challenges of large multi-site health systems, as well as single site outpatient imaging centers, including the ability to customize fields and unique workflows. It has been used to manage radiology workflow of leading hospitals and imaging centers across North America for more than 10 years.

Sectra RIS helps customers increase efficiency, productivity, and patient/clinician satisfaction while also improving revenue collection. By combining it with Sectra PACS customers experience the full benefits of single-desktop integration, single-vendor convenience and best-of-breed functionality.

Demo of Sectra RIS

View a demonstration video of the advanced features of Sectras RIS.

Billing preparation, validation and service

Sectra RIS improves revenue capture by insuring that the data submitted is both accurate and complete. A pre-certification worklist allows staff to keep track of the exams that still require insurance pre-authorization, and to enter authorization numbers.

You can reduce claim errors and improve revenue capture by defining the fields that are required at various points during the workflow, and what information is required before billing data is forwarded to the billing system. Billing messages can be automatically transmitted for exams that have passed the validation process, or you can require a manual review. Users can correct validation errors on billing messages that have not yet been sent, as well as review the diagnostic report and enter ICD9 codes.

Sectra RIS also captures the collected amount from the patient and payment method, and can integrate with insurance providers to confirm eligibility, and post the patient’s co-pay, co-insurance and deductible amounts.

Sectra also offers an optional Billing Service that takes care of all of your billing needs, including coding, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) reporting measures, credentialing and collections.

Features and benefits

• An intuitive user interface reduces training time and speeds system adoption, while Sectra's unique design reduces the number of screens and the number of steps required to view patient/exam information and complete each task. Key patient and exam information is easily accessible from a single screen for most users.
• Reduction in deployment and upgrade time and costs through a web-based application makes it easy for IT to manage and enables radiologists and staff to work from any location.
• Advanced features and workflow automation increases the level of workflow efficiency, standardization across sites, and staff productivity.
• Sectra RIS provides a paperless workflow environment through electronic document and forms generation and management, electronic worksheets and diagram mark ups, and support for electronic signature pads and scanners, which help to reduce or eliminate costs and time associated with handling and storing paper documents.
• Users manage their day-to-day activities in priority order via worklists tailored to their specific role and information needs. 
• An embedded mammography reporting and tracking module provides administrative support to ensure compliance with the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). Read more>>
• Powerful next available scheduling engine enable radiology to book exams more efficiently, reduce modality downtime and increase revenue. Read more>>
• Flexible RIS or PACS driven single-desktop reporting with embedded speech recognition improve radiologist’s productivity and help speed report turnaround. Read more>>

Sample screenshot

Radiologist’s Interpretation Screen, click to enlarge:

RIS related solutions

Referring Physician Portal

Improve the level of service of referring physicians by providing them with online access to your RIS for clinical decision support tools, real-time exam status and detailed radiology reports.

Proactive management reporting

Learn about problems before they impact your business or patient care through automated, real-time e-mail alerts, and uncover issues and resolve bottlenecks through detailed reporting.

Meaningful Use/EHR certification

Eligible providers can achieve Meaningful Use objectives to obtain EHR incentive program reimbursement and improve their radiology workflow using the Sectra RIS solution.

Sectra RIS - Mammography tracking

An embedded mammography reporting and tracking module provides administrative support to ensure compliance with the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA).