Vocada Awarded Patent for Merging Voice Messaging Data First Used in Failsafe Medical Communications System
Vocada is a great application - it solves a lot of communication problems that currently exist in reporting results to clinicians to get care at the point of delivery.
Here is how currently radiologists report significant findings to clinicians about a radiology exam:
1. First try to find who ordered the study
2. Find their phone number or pager
3. Call or page
4. Usually clinician not available a the phone number called and usually clinician with a patient and is unable to answer the page.
5. Radiologists wait for clinician to return call and usually forget about the case and the important finding is not reported immediately. Report does get deliver by mail or fax but is not seen up to 24 to 48 hours later.
6. And radiologists never know if the clinician actually read the report.
This above workflow creates a lot of errors in management and delay in treatment.
In the world of Vocada here is what happens:
1. Radiologists finds an abnormality that needs to be reported and dictates it.
2. Clicks on the Vocada icon.
3. Vocada pages the clinician or calls.
4. Automatically plays back an audio file of the findings to the clinicians.
5. Let's the radiologist know when a clinician got the results.
6. If clinician does not answer - radiologist is notified of the delay.
This workflow so much time. In the old workflow, some radiology practices have time blocked off during the day when radiologists call to report findings. Vocada not only improves communication, but improves radiologist's productivity and timely patient care.
Just my 2 cents.
Vocada is a great application - it solves a lot of communication problems that currently exist in reporting results to clinicians to get care at the point of delivery.
Here is how currently radiologists report significant findings to clinicians about a radiology exam:
1. First try to find who ordered the study
2. Find their phone number or pager
3. Call or page
4. Usually clinician not available a the phone number called and usually clinician with a patient and is unable to answer the page.
5. Radiologists wait for clinician to return call and usually forget about the case and the important finding is not reported immediately. Report does get deliver by mail or fax but is not seen up to 24 to 48 hours later.
6. And radiologists never know if the clinician actually read the report.
This above workflow creates a lot of errors in management and delay in treatment.
In the world of Vocada here is what happens:
1. Radiologists finds an abnormality that needs to be reported and dictates it.
2. Clicks on the Vocada icon.
3. Vocada pages the clinician or calls.
4. Automatically plays back an audio file of the findings to the clinicians.
5. Let's the radiologist know when a clinician got the results.
6. If clinician does not answer - radiologist is notified of the delay.
This workflow so much time. In the old workflow, some radiology practices have time blocked off during the day when radiologists call to report findings. Vocada not only improves communication, but improves radiologist's productivity and timely patient care.
Just my 2 cents.
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