Upgrading your MRI machine is a big decision but it can also solve some of the challenges you may have with older systems.
While there never seems to be a perfect time to make a significant change in your current day to day operations, there are a few areas to consider when asking if an MRI upgrade is right for your organization.
Five areas tend to arise during the typical advancement discussion:
Improved clinical outcomes
- Improvement in patient experience
- Improvement in patient safety
- Achieve the best possible clinical outcomes relative to benchmark
- Improvement in hospital performance metrics/core measure targets
- Improve physician alignment and consistency of practice
Greater operational efficiency
- Optimize clinical and non-clinical labor spend
- Improve efficiency of support functions
- Reduce supply spend and optimize utilization
- Improve cross-facility collaboration
- Ensure the efficient management of episodes of care
- Improve workflow and patient management
Staff management and retention
- Improve staff and physician engagement
- Drive staff and physician development
- Improve staff and physician satisfaction
Increased patient volume
- Resource allocation on priority services
- Improve alignments with referring MDs
- Improve capacity management
- Expand number of payor contracts and improve the quality of portfolio contracts
Better financial performance
- Increase reimbursement fees, payor rates, and collections
- Increase capital efficiency
- Increase contribution margin
- Expand portfolio of revenue generating assets
- Improve revenue cycle management
