Novarad
An All-Encompassing Solution To Streamline Workflow For Pacs

According to recent studies, the global picture archiving and communication system (PACS) market is estimated to grow by approximately $1.17 billion by 2024. This clearly indicates there will be a growing number of radiologists, image center managers, and heads of technology in hospitals who rely heavily on PACS to improve the quality of care for patients.

Undoubtedly, PACS has been a game-changer in the radiology space, but it is still riddled with integration, troubleshooting, training, and maintenance issues that negatively impact radiology workflows. In critical radiology workflows, efficiency and accuracy are the most critical parameters. In effect, it is more important than ever to leverage solutions that help healthcare providers achieve new efficiencies and precision to ultimately drive better patient outcomes, streamlined diagnosis processes, and increased profits.

Breaking the status quo in transformative imaging technologies is Novarad. This medical technology firm offers industry-leading healthcare solutions, including NovaPACS EI, which enables hospitals, imaging centers, clinics, and physicians to work more efficiently. With over three decades of industry expertise, Novarad is successfully transforming how healthcare facilities capture, store, view, exchange, and analyze patient images, multimedia, and other data for better diagnosis and patient outcomes.

“We are strongly rooted to our core principles of transformative technology, people-centric approach, and service delivery excellence. With our integrated patient record, NovaPACS with Enterprise Imaging (NovaPACSEI), we help clients achieve care excellence by driving faster, more accurate diagnoses and treatment plans,” Doug Madsen, Director of Clinical Sales, Novarad.

Bottlenecks in Imaging Technologies

Cutting-edge medical imaging technology is imperative for cardiologists to augment clinical decision-making and to take a systematic approach to diagnosing and treating their patients. However, this often seems far from reality for most rural, small, and even some medium sized hospitals, as deploying a cardiology PACS (CPACS) is expensive. Without an all-in-one workstation, EKG viewer, and a complete structured cardio reporting, it becomes increasingly challenging to meet the cardiology needs of patients. Rural hospitals find it difficult to have cardiologists visit them regularly. They need to rely on physicians who visit the facility a few times a week or outsource imaging interpretations from third-party providers.

Achieving Top-Notch Care with a Universal Solution

Novarad is capable of delivering a completely scalable imaging tool, NovaPACS EI, which is the go-to solution for clients’ imaging needs. It enables centralized and simplified storage of images without hardware overhead costs. As a completely automated solution, NovaPACS EI can easily eliminate the manual scanning and printing of images into the EMR while allowing easy access to physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, when needed.

The solution also enables responsible and safe sharing of patient data, which reduces duplication of services and provides evidence-based and documented patient information to ensure receipt of maximum compensation.

NovaCardio™ is the CPACS for cardiology from Novarad and it offers vessel metrics, calcium scoring, percent stenosis, ejection fraction, a full suite of echo, and an EKG viewer. Imaging centers and hospitals of all sizes can reap the benefits of this easily configurable, feature-rich CPACS system, which integrates a comprehensive enterprise imaging strategy as the Cardiology Workflow Module of NovaPACS EI.

Novarad’s NovaPACS EI comes with a universal viewer, allowing physicians to get all the cardiology and radiology reports from a single, centralized source. This AI-driven solution assists clients in finding the affected vessels, enabling radiologists to mark them out for better diagnosis. The company’s 3D technology allows clients to support nuclear cardiology, cardiac cath, vascular ultrasound, and all other cardiology procedures.

We are strongly rooted to our core principles of transformative technology, people-centric approach, and service delivery excellence. With our integrated patient record, NovaPACS with Enterprise Imaging (NovaPACSEI), we help clients achieve care excellence by driving faster, more accurate diagnoses and treatment plans

“Our solution acts as a one-stop shop solution for cardiologists to arrive at diagnoses faster and provide quicker and comprehensive reports. What the market requires at the moment is better patient care at a lower cost, and that is what we are offering,” says Paul Shumway, Senior VP of Customer Success.

Novarad’s complete cardiac motion imaging system also offers a fully integrated cardiology structured reporting. This robust suite of tools for cardiology analysis, along with the integrated set of cardiac spciality viewer, offers practitioners a more efficient workflow, powerful features, and an easy-to-access viewer, all at an affordable price. It contains a single-click workflow, easy-to-set preferences, and an auto display of previous studies to simplify image viewing. The product supports all cardiac imaging modalities, including nuclear cardiology, cardiac catheterization, and vascular ultrasound. The NovaCardio workstation with automated cine capabilities is optimized to view large motion-based ultrasound images at full spatial and temporal resolution.

Novarad also provides clients with flexibility in how they want to build their systems. For instance, clients no longer have to wedge cardiology into a radiology viewer or vice-versa. Instead, the company creates a different image viewer that helps cardiologists and radiologists retain their own workflows and receive a comprehensive patient report to make faster diagnoses. Its solutions are built on the same server, eliminating any existing silos of having separate systems.

This further facilitates seamless collaboration between cardiologists and other providers and allows them to discuss appropriate treatment plans for patients.

All of Novarad’s products are user-friendly and sold on an evergreen program where clients no longer have to pay additional charges for upgrades. The company’s solutions have a unique notes feature, allowing clients to time-stamp the reports and see who has viewed them. This allows physicians to assign cases back and forth and make necessary notes about the critical findings.

High-Caliber Team Driving Excellence

For over two decades, Novarad has been focused on imaging informatics and finding ways to simplify imaging interpretations and diagnoses. The driving force behind this long legacy is its team of experts. The company has a dedicated development team that works on various advanced imaging products. It also has team members who are experts in making auto-ejection fraction, AI driven imaging tools, stenosis or measurement tools. Novarad’s R&D team is a cut above the rest as it fuels constant innovation in imaging solutions. The company also has a focused project management team that diligently learns from customers and works to get those needs met in future versions of the product. In addition, Novarad offers pre-training to clients on-site. If they want to go with the complete onboarding process, the company can install its applications onto client’s’ servers and effectively train the different super users via its ‘train-the-trainer approach. Novarad also offers 24/7 USA-based best-in-class support to clients across all regions.

Clients can further benefit from Novarad’s customer service team, which understands and guides them through all their current requirements and the type of enhancements they need. Having these recommendations helps the company develop its in-house solutions and tailor them to best fit the client’s demands.

Steering Ahead with Innovation

One of the major drivers of client satisfaction is Novarad’s top-notch service and support. The company always puts its clients needs first and as a result, has been consistently rated as ‘excellent’ by third-party agencies. With this philosophy in mind, Novarad continues to grow and develop new products to serve clients beyond cardiology and radiology. “In the coming years, we are looking to include more “ologies” within our portfolio. We wish to combine the power of AI to develop products that can service radiology, cardiology, wound care, and pathology departments. We are moving beyond the normal radiology structures to enhance AI and developing processes to enhance workflow for current and potential clients,” states Madsen.