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Scheduling: if your RIS cannot, perhaps your HIS can.

W M Rowe1, M E Moffitt, W J Bunnell

  • 1Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Radiology Management
|January 3, 1996
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Radiology departments can improve patient scheduling by adopting a collaborative, hospital-wide system. This approach prioritizes the referring physician

Area of Science:

  • Radiology Department Operations
  • Healthcare Management
  • Medical Informatics

Background:

  • Radiology department services have expanded, increasing scheduling complexity.
  • Physicians and staff report difficulties with current radiology scheduling systems.
  • Managed care and competition necessitate a customer-centric approach, focusing on referring physician offices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe Vanderbilt University Medical Center's (VUMC) collaborative, hospital-wide scheduling system implementation.
  • To evaluate the impact of a tailored scheduling system on radiology department efficiency and clinic operations.
  • To enhance communication and teamwork between radiology departments and referring clinics.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a unified, hospital-wide scheduling system accessible by clinic staff.

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  • Tailoring the system to meet specific radiology department technical requirements.
  • Direct access for clinic staff to schedule patient appointments within the radiology department.

    • Main Results:

    • Efficient patient appointment scheduling by clinic staff.
    • Improved information organization benefiting systems like the film library.
    • Enhanced communication and a growing sense of teamwork between the radiology department and clinics.

    Conclusions:

    • A collaborative, customer-focused scheduling system can significantly improve radiology department efficiency.
    • Direct clinic access to scheduling systems benefits both referring offices and the radiology department.
    • Optimizing scheduling processes enhances inter-departmental communication and operational synergy.