Pathlogic came to InterWeave with the need for "SURVIVAL EFFICIENCY".

Pain Areas

• Multiple entries of the same information to satisfy clinical, insurance and billing requirements (higher overhead)
• Delivery of clinical report average 4-5 days (Inefficient)
• Submittal of insurance forms required a separate system (higher overhead)
• Retrieval of patient information very tedious and time consuming (higher overhead)
• Use of transcriptionist is expensive and adds to time to the report delivery (Inefficient and higher overhead costs)

Solution

Result:

InterWeave Inc, developed a fully integrated system that saved them about $160,000/year in overhead costs and provides clinical reports to their customers in a matter of hours, not days.

Features:

• On-line delivery of pathology report.  In some cases, the customer (referring physician) is able to view pathology report on the web within 3 hours of the tissue removal.
• Integrates clinical and billing solution so that patient information is entered only once.
• Ability to access system from any internet access location with proper authentication
• Eliminates the need for a transcriptionist by providing prewritten diagnosis which are modifiable by the pathologist.  With a few key strokes, the pathologist can finalized the report and start the billing process
• All patient information is readably accessible within seconds without the need to open a file cabinet
• All information is HIPPA compliant and resides in a secure server in a vault