Referring Practice Portal
Our Referring Practice Portal is a way to enhance our service to you. Developed in conjunction with several referring physicians and administrators, the Referring Practice Portal offers tools that serve to optimize patients’ care and their experience with the practice.
The Referring Practice Portal allows you to view your patients’ images and reports. You can easily access this information through the secured Internet site from your office, hospital or home, giving you the information you need from any location and reducing the need for your front office staff to call to determine the status of the exam you have ordered. Images are available immediately after completion of the exam. Consultants can sign into the system as well, allowing for efficient access to imaging studies during hospitalizations or visits with specialists. Old studies and reports can also be viewed with the Portal.
Advantages of the Referring Practice Portal
- Faster report/image turnaround — Reports and images are available to the referring physician as soon as they are completed.
- Improved report/image availability — Reports and images are available wherever they are needed, allowing physicians to see all of the information from the office, the hospital or even from home. Clinicians can view images during phone discussions with radiologists.
- Easier emergency read capabilities — This allows a physician to view reports/images on a patient who is in an emergency department or under the care of another physician. The Portal increases ease of collaboration with colleagues.
- Improved patient satisfaction — Patients appreciate image and report availability during office visits. In addition, the use of sophisticated technology systems gives patients a positive impression of the referring practice.
- Competitive advantage — The Portal gives referring physicians an added benefit that they can use in marketing their practices.
- Reduced calls on exam status — Front desk personnel no longer need to make multiple calls regarding the status of patient exams. They can simply access a patient’s information via the Referring Practice Portal. Examples of patient status screens are:
- Unconfirmed/confirmed appointments
- Cancelled appointments
- Check-in status
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- Completed reports
- Eliminates lost reports — Current and prior reports/images are always available via our secure site.
- Reduced costs — Practice costs from phone calls, faxes, deliveries and wasted staff time are reduced through the Portal.
- System administration — The practice administrator is empowered to manage all user names and passwords for the practice. The administrator also can see the entire group’s reports, and instantly adjust the system if needed.
The Referring Practice Portal is a highly intuitive program with embedded Help files. Additional support is available from PDI on Monday through Friday from 8 am – 7 pm by calling 414-847-1800 or 414-529-3100. Use of the Portal requires minimal training for administrators; almost no training is required for physicians who are web-savvy. The Portal uses a SSL 128-bit encrypted secure connection through the Internet.
The system set up on your end is very simple. For more information please call the Radiology Manager at 414-529-3100 and see how easy it is to have your patient’s radiology reports and images at your fingertips!
For a detailed brochure about how to use the portal, click here.