What is a hospital RIS System?
A Radiology Information System (RIS) is used by radiology departments to store, manipulate and distribute patient radiological data and imagery. The system generally comprises of patient tracking and scheduling, result reporting and image tracking capabilities.
What is a PACS system?
The Picture Archive Communication System (PACS) stores digital images. PACS allows us to share images with physicians at a hospital or any other affiliate office. Physicians can view digital radiological images on their office computers through secure Internet access. There is no longer a need to carry films between Radiology departments, or doctor's offices.
What is HL-7 Connectivity?
"Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Health Level Seven's domain is clinical and administrative data. For more information go to http://www.hl7.org
What is a DICOM?
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a comprehensive set of standards for handling, storing and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communication protocol. For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM
What Technology do we use?
Leading Edge

Online Radiology uses state-of-the-art custom designed software that integrates with all hospital RIS and PACS systems
What value added services are included?
In addition to high quality final or preliminary reports (depending on what your needs are), you will also have access to 24x7x365 customer service and technical support, free setup, no standby fees, daily and quarterly turnaround time reports, quarterly QA reports, full online access to monitor workflow and view reports in the Online Radiology RIS through secure access, HL7 connectivity for final reports integration and order entry if required, customized critical values lists tailored to your needs, and much more, including a partner with expertese in remote radiology who will help consult with you, your doctors, and your IT staff to leverage IT to make your own business run smoothly.
What is our pricing model?
We charge a per-study price with no standby fee or setup fee. Specific pricing will depend on your requirements, so please contact us (link to contact page) so we can give you a free consultation and prepare a customized proposal for you that is tailored to meet your needs.
Preliminary and Final reports. What is the difference?
Normally, groups that read at night do what’s called a wet-read, or preliminary report - basically it tells an ER doctor whether or not further medical care (usually surgery) is necessary or not. However, this report is not complete and "billable." In the morning, the on-site radiologist will re-read the case and publish a final, more complete report which is "billable." Typically insurance companies pay the radiology group on site for the complete report, not the wet read that the night time teleradiology group performed. This means that the on-site radiologist, while they don’t have to get up at night, has to still re-read every case that we read for them.

So, we offer final reports (requirements for final reports are that your doctor sits in the US and has medicare billing numbers, and that the report is thorough and previous "comparison" studies, if any, were also looked at). Who ever does the "final report" is also liable for and misses or problems (as far as malpractice goes). This also means that the onsite radiologist does not have to re-read them in the morning, which is where our services offer an economic value to our customers.
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Do you charge a setup fee?
No. For most initial setups, our IT staff will help you every step of the way with the setup of a HIPAA compliant point-to-point VPN solution, or advise on the use of a HIPAA Compliant gateway device.
Do you charge a standby fee?
No. There is no standby fee. You only pay for the exams you have us read. There is zero risk in using our services.