Accelarad Celebrates Five-Year Partnership with Radiological Physicians Associates

FAIRMONT, W.Va. - Aug. 5, 2013 - PRLog -- July 29, 2013 - ATLANTA –Accelarad, the nation's leading cloud-based medical image sharing (http://www.accelarad.com/healthcare-organizations/social-mobile-cloud/) solution, celebrates a five-year partnership with Radiological Physicians Associates (RPA XRAY), West Virginia’s largest private radiology practice servicing more than 32 medical facilities, including 12 hospitals, 14 clinics and several physicians offices, such as St Joseph's of Buckhannon, Grafton City, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Medical, Pocahontas Memorial, Fairmont General, and Roane General Hospital.Accelarad is the largest and most experienced cloud-based medical image-exchange (http://www.accelarad.com/healthcare-organizations/social-mobile-cloud/) platform available today, enabling collaborative coordination of care while providing users with both security and ease of use.

Access to medical images is critical to trauma transfers, specialty consults, patient image requests and many other clinical scenarios. The adoption of Accelarad has allowed RPA XRAY to efficiently process more than 150,000 studies each year. Previously, these images were read manually on roto-viewers then on RPA servers that required frequent upgrades and expensive licensing fees. The web-based system has also allowed RPA XRAY to hire physicians who are not in their immediate geographical region.

“We are very pleased with the growth we have experienced since partnering with Accelarad,” said Sam Merandi, administrative vice president of RPA. “We are under constant pressure to provide accurate and timely radiology reports for referring physicians. With Accelarad, our average turnaround time for all reports has been reduced from as much as 24 hours to just under two hours.”          

Accelarad provides web-based installation and updates, as well as 24-hour support so RPA XRAY never has to interrupt their cycle of care. The ability to add doctors without additional licensing fees, combined with quick turnaround times has allowed RPA to experience 23% percent growth in the number of patients they are able to service each year.

“For five years, we’ve had the pleasure of providing Radiological Physicians Associates with cloud-based medical image distribution (http://www.accelarad.com/healthcare-organizations/product...) that enables its medical staff to improve workflows and provide quicker diagnosis,” said Willie Tillery, CEO of Accelarad.  “Our partnership with RPA XRAY, which services one third of West Virginia’s population, proves that Accelarad can truly connect communities and improve patient care on a large scale.”  

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About Accelarad

Founded in 1999, Atlanta-based Accelarad, creators of SeeMyRadiology.com, makes it simple for healthcare organizations, physicians and patients to securely view, manage and share medical images (http://www.accelarad.com/healthcare-organizations/social-...) and documents online. Intuitive and in tune with healthcare workflows, Accelarad’s scalable platform eliminates the costs, redundancies and administrative headaches of outmoded image transfer technology. The company’s robust, cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) platform empowers collaboration by allowing users to access and share medical images and documents from Internet-connected computers or mobile devices at any time, from anywhere. Accelarad’s true multi-tenant architecture supports today’s imaging needs, while also strategically positioning healthcare organizations to address the ongoing challenges of patient-centered, coordinated care.  For more information, visit www.accelarad.com.

Radiological Physician Associates (RPA XRAY) is comprised of 21 Board Certified Radiologists, providing professional diagnostic imaging services in north central West Virginia. Since 1968, Radiological Physician Associates have been providing quality services in a private practice setting. RPA XRAY utilizes an Internet based Radiology Information System (RIS), and Cloud Imaging Software, as a service (SaaS) platform which empowers collaboration by allowing our group of experienced RPA XRAY Radiologists to access and share medical images and documents from Internet-connected computers or mobile devices at any time through technology provided by AccelaRAD, based in Georgia and ThinAir Data, based in California.  Our services at RPA XRAY include:  Order Entry and Scheduling for the client; digital dictation and transcription; electronic signature for medical reporting; automatic report distribution, and can access multiple locations throughout our network.  RPA XRAY utilizes cloud-based medical imaging solutions for our Hospitals, Healthcare organizations, and outpatient clinics to enable our Radiology team to quickly and securely view, manage, and share medical images and documents.