Ikonopedia Installs First MQSA Follow-up Tracking & Management System at Kentucky Breast Care

LAS VEGAS, March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ikonopedia announced today the first installation of its MQSA Follow-up Tracking & Management System at Kentucky Breast Care in Russell Springs, Ky.

Kentucky Breast Care has also installed Ikonopedia's full suite of breast imaging report generation software tools based on indexing breast findings based on what they look like rather than what they are called.  The announcement was made here, at the National Consortium of Breast Centers' (NCoBC) 25th Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference, March 14-18, 2015 (Booth #77).

Andrea Woodroof, MD, opened Kentucky Breast Care in 2012 to provide dedicated breast imaging services to the South Central Kentucky area.  Committed to using state of the art imaging technology to keep up with advances in breast health care, Kentucky Breast Care is one first centers in the country to use contrast-enhanced mammography and one of only a few centers in Kentucky offering digital breast tomosynthesis, sometimes called 3D mammography. The Ikonopedia installation is designed to improve workflow and quality for all breast imaging exams performed at Kentucky Breast Care.

"We recently began using Ikonopedia and have been very impressed with their ability to quickly integrate the RIS portion of the radiology practice with the EMR that is specific to breast radiology, including documentation of physical exams, consultations, phone follow ups, and patient tracking for surgical referrals," said Dr. Woodroof, breast radiologist, Kentucky Breast Care.  "Their innovative approach to helping us utilize individualized risk assessment and optimized reporting tools is very important to our commitment to provide patients information to empower and inform their breast health care decisions."

The new MQSA notification and follow-up system is designed to help users remain compliant with MQSA.  The system can manage all patient tracking and communication capabilities, including letters, phone calls, and certified/registered mail based on customized user-defined protocols.  Ikonopedia provides flexibility in all required patient notifications and letters can be personalized by BI-RADS category, breast density, exam-type, and risk assessment score, and can be batch printed with facility logos and government-mandated language. With the letter filter system, patients with dense breasts or high risk score can receive a context-specific letter that is appropriate for them.  Ikonopedia provides a full-enterprise mammography audit that captures all data mandated by the Mammography Quality Standards Act with no additional data entry.  Eliminating the need for manual tracking processes, users can create reports at the enterprise level or segmented at the site/clinic level, or by individual radiologist. 

"Ikonopedia was founded on the premise of developing breast imaging reporting tools that enable a new level of quality and productivity.   The new MQSA follow up manager is designed to give users stronger tools and improved data to better impact patient care by enabling them to focus on quality trends and improvement rather than data entry and manual tracking processes," said Emily Crane, CEO, Ikonopedia.

Ikonopedia's suite of report generation software tools includes Screening MRI, Diagnostic MRI, Diagnostic Ultrasound, and Biopsy in addition to Screening and Diagnostic Mammography.  For each reporting modality, context-specific images and educational materials are available via a reference library drawn from the teaching files and maintained by Ikonopedia founders and contributors, including László Tabár, MD (mammography), Thomas Stavros, MD (diagnostic ultrasound), and Michael Vendrell, MD and Steven E. Harmes, MD (MRI).

Designed to optimize breast imaging workflow, Ikonopedia's suite of report generation software tools are based on indexing breast findings based on what they look like rather than what they are called.  While Ikonopedia's proprietary drag-and-drop lesion locator has been customized for each of the reporting modalities, all have the same consistent layout for efficiency.  All reports are guaranteed to be 100% BI-RADS® language compliant and current with the Atlas 5th Edition.  The Ikonopedia reporting interface is fast without sacrificing accuracy and built-in metrics show a median screening report time of 33 seconds  with many under 10 seconds and many reporting errors common with dictation such as inappropriate BI-RADS®, incomplete reports, and wrong-side reporting are eliminated automatically.

About Ikonopedia

Ikonopedia, LLC was founded by three expert breast imaging radiologists: László Tabár, MD, A. Thomas Stavros, MD, and Michael J. Vendrell, MD.  Ikonopedia is an image-based breast study interpretation and reporting tool designed to interface with multiple Radiology PACS and Information Systems. Selecting an Ikonopedia image icon inserts a structured language description of the lesion and its location into the report. An embedded real-time reference created and maintained by Drs. Tabár, Stavros, and Vendrell is available whenever the Radiologist might want to seek further knowledge for accurate diagnosis.

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