Neurostar and LocumTenens.com Announce Teleradiology Venture
"Virtual Staffing” Model Offers Affordable Digital Imaging, Radiology Specialists to Rural Hospitals.
(PRWEB) July 7, 2005 -- Neurostar Solutions, developer and marketer of the
innovative Virtual Radiology Network (VRN), and LocumTenens.com, a full-service
recruitment firm specializing in temporary physician placement, announce a
partnership to offer streamlined remote radiology staffing to LocumTenens.com
clients. The new agreement will enable hospitals and imaging groups to choose
offsite radiologists to read films and submit reports using Neurostar’s
VRN.
“We're thrilled we can now offer a full complement of radiology
solutions to our client hospitals—particularly those in rural areas, where we
place about 75 percent of our physicians,” says David Roush, president of
LocumTenens.com. “For facilities with fewer than 300 beds, the combination of
Neurostar’s remote-reading technology and our credentialed radiologists offers a
viable and affordable answer to today’s radiologist shortage.”
Roush
believes the new service will be particularly attractive to facilities with too
much reading volume for one radiologist but not enough for two. “The clear
advantage is that hospitals and group practices will now be able to choose from
a larger and more diverse pool of radiology expertise than they could access
locally,” he says.
Virtually Moving People and
Images
Neurostar’s VRN is a complete digital imaging reading, management and
archiving solution. The next step beyond PACS, the technology is designed to
power virtual radiology networks. Its unique architecture and universal workflow
enable imaging centers, hospitals, and physicians’ offices to share imaging data
with a virtual community of imaging specialists and referring physicians,
helping them expand services, productivity and referrals
cost-effectively.
Under the agreement, LocumTenens.com clients who select
offsite physicians will have the option of utilizing Neurostar’s VRN at an
extremely cost-effective, per-study charge. Facilities will utilize the VRN
technology in-house and store their images to Neurostar’s offsite archive.
Offsite physicians then will have immediate access to studies on a standard
Internet-enabled computer and can read them and store the results back to the
server as well as send reports directly to the imaging facility.
“This is
a win-win relationship for all parties involved,” says Willie Tillery, CEO for
Neurostar Solutions. “Today’s acute radiologist shortage has created a large
need for outsourcing radiology reading. Our VRN allows medical practices to
transcend geographic boundaries to take advantage of the expertise they need,
resulting in better and faster reads—all with almost no set-up time or cost.”
About LocumTenens.com
Founded in 1995,
LocumTenens.com is a full-service recruiting firm specializing in supplemental
placement of anesthesiologists, radiologists, psychiatrists, surgeons and CRNAs
(certified registered nurse anesthetists) with U.S. hospitals, medical groups
and community health centers. The firm maintains a database of approximately
40,000 physicians and fills roughly 25 percent more of its openings than the
industry average.
LocumTenens.com expects to place 1,200 physicians in
2005, approximately 75 percent of them in rural America. The company (http://www.locumtenens.com)
also offers the only free physician job board (covering all specialties) on the
Web.
LocumTenens.com is part of the Jackson Healthcare Solutions family of
companies, named to Inc. magazine’s 23rd annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest
growing U.S. private companies in 2004.
About Neurostar
Solutions
Founded in 2000, Neurostar Solutions provides technology and
infrastructure to enable virtual radiology networks, connecting hundreds of
facilities and thousands of physicians to date. The key to Neurostar’s unique
VRN technology is the ability to pull images from an infinite number of imaging
sites onto a centralized server and make them available through a single
database accessible from any location, streamlining image access and
management.
Neurostar’s cost-effective, Web-based clinical image
management solution helps practices ensure reading by designated physicians,
wherever located, in a timely fashion. It addresses today’s radiologist
shortage, the growing need for specialized image interpretation and the
challenges of reduced reimbursements. For more information on Neurostar and its
image management solutions, visit www.neurostarsolutions.com or call 1-866-809-4746.
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