WHAT IS RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEM (RIS)?


A Radiology Information System (RIS) is a sophisticated database system that radiology medical professionals use to keep track of patient data and the enormous image files typically generated in the course of diagnosis and treatment.
A RIS has several basic functions:


Patient management

Radiology Information System can track the patient's entire workflow within the radiology department; radiology providers can add images and reports to EHRs, where they can be retrieved and viewed by authorized staff.


Scheduling

The RIS allows the staff to make appointments for both inpatients and outpatients.


Patient tracking

Using a RIS system, providers can track a patient's entire radiology history from admission to discharge and coordinate the history with past, present and future appointments.


Results reporting

A RIS can generate statistical reports for a single patient, group of patients or particular procedures.


Image tracking

Traditionally, radiology providers use RIS to track individual films and their associated data. But as EHRs have become standard across the healthcare industry and digitized images and PACS have been widely adopted, radiology departments and their RIS-PACS systems have been more drawn into the clinical workflow of the entire medical enterprise.


Billing

RIS systems provide detailed financial record-keeping and process electronic payments and automated claims, though these functions are becoming incorporated into medical organizations' overall EHR systems.


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