Vocada adds Vanderbilt Imaging to its VoiceLink Radiologist Messaging Platform
DALLAS, TX – (BUSINESS WIRE)- March 10, 2003 – Vocada, Inc. announced today the addition of Vanderbilt Imaging to VoiceLink™, Vocada’s patent-pending radiologist messaging platform. VoiceLink greatly improves the process of physician callbacks by offering a real-time messaging infrastructure that delivers patient results in a secure, verifiable and documented system. Physician callbacks are a tremendous loss of productivity for radiologists and a significant source of malpractice risk according to the American College of Radiology.
"We chose VoiceLink to improve the communication between radiology and the referring community of Vanderbilt Imaging. We found no other company focused on the communication needs of radiologists and the typical bottlenecks created when communicating patient results," said Dr. Jeff Landman, Medical Director, Vanderbilt Imaging.
By using VoiceLink, radiologists and healthcare institutions can dramatically streamline their communication with referring physicians resulting in faster patient care cycles, better response times and more customized distribution of patient results.
VoiceLink works the way physicians work. After the radiologist completes a patient study, he simply picks up the phone, dials his own Vocada-assigned 800 number, speaks the name of the referring physician, leaves a preliminary message regarding the patient, and then hangs up. VoiceLink takes over from there. The message is automatically dissected and routed to the referring physician. Messages are delivered directly to any combination of cell phones, land phones, pagers, and fax.
In addition, VoiceLink protects radiology departments and healthcare facilities from failure to communicate lawsuits, which have been cited as a causative factor in 80% of all radiology malpractice claims.1
Thomas White, EVP of Vocada stated, "When we started developing VoiceLink we could not believe the lack of systems in place to support radiology or for that matter physician to physician communication in general. We are pleased that VoiceLink has been so readily adopted by great clients such as Vanderbilt Imaging."
About Vocada
Vocada is a Dallas-based software company solving the complicated problem of communication across healthcare providers and organizations. VoiceLink is supported by patent-pending technology that enables reports to be created in real-time via voice or text and delivered to a multi-device environment. Vocada is partnered with Sprint Corporation to provide the fastest, most secure and reliable result messaging system for healthcare problems.
VoiceLink sales: contact Vocada at sales@vocada.com or 214-219-5240.
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1 Dr. Leonard Berlin MD: Malpractice Issues in Radiology: Communicating Findings in Radiologic Examinations: Whither Goes The Radiologist? AJR page 178:809 April 2002.