•  The RIS system is critical to radiology workflow. RIS runs the radiology department and communicates with the enterprise.

•  Major productivity improvements arise from efficient and accurate enterprise scheduling. A well-designed scheduling system in radiology will drive additional exams with little or no extra expense.

•  Key to a good operating radiology information system is a well-planned, efficient implementation project. According to computer industry analysts over 30% of computer implementations do not meet their intended strategic objectives.

•  A well-organized, user involved implementation will provide better workflow, with fewer steps, mistakes and errors in handling and managing patient data. Information is handled only once and the required information converges from multiple computer network sources.

•  Improvements in staff efficiency lead to faster examinations, rapid report turnaround, fewer repeat rates and a significant reduction in lost or unread films. A well integrated radiology information and PACS system improves productivity without increases in staff.

•  An integrated radiology information and PACS system will improve teaching file systems.

•  Increases in clinical efficiency are realized when timelier clinical information is available to radiologists, caregivers, specialists and referring physicians.

•  From a financial perspective, the benefits derived from an integrated RIS and PACS relate directly to reductions in both film related costs and revenue losses due to missing films and unread procedures resulting in medical legal issues.

•  Improved workflow contributes to faster report turnaround, shorter billing cycles and more accurate billing information. A good business workflow and efficient clinical workflow go hand-in-hand for ensuring the radiology department is accurately reimbursed.

•  Favorable report turnaround times, accurate image and report data to referring physicians can provide improved market share in a local market region.

•  The purchase of truly integrated RIS/PACS allows for more accurate cost estimates and analysis including the hardware, software, network configurations, maintenance, service and system upgrade planning.

•  A radiology department's greatest benefit comes from an integrated RIS/PACS acquisition where the products are seamlessly integrated into a single solution, enabling enhanced workflow, reduction of duplication and economies of scale and productivity.

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The Flow Point system, built on an expandable set of configurable web services architecture, provides intrinsic, seamless RIS, image management, radiology workflow and archive management solutions.

•  Open systems architecture permits FlowPoint to be run on Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems.
•  Standards-based system providing bidirectional HL-7 and DICOM capability
•  Fully DICOM compliant
•  Supports HL-7 triggered events and messaging
•  Supports ADT messaging
•  Support HIPAA compliance security and privacy through:
•  128 bit SSL encryption
•  Biometric authentication possible
•  Encrypted passwords
•  Individually configured and managed login privileges
•  Detailed department definable audit trails
•  Detailed the user profiles with specific privileges and restrictions
•  Secure digital signatures
•  Support for firewalls, and virtual private networks
•  Archive and storage solutions
•  Full complement of storage configurations available
•  Permits on-line real-time storage or hierarchical storage management
•  Back-up and disaster recovery
•  High resolution monitors available through industry partners
•  1K, 2K, 3K & 5K B/W and color monitor solutions
•  Compatible with wide selection of industry viewers to meet clinical applications requirements and price points
•  System is fully scalable, providing flexible configurations to meet the demands of enterprise based radiology practices, multi-site and imaging center operations.
•  FlowPoint provides workflow solutions enabling paperless radiology department operations

Comprehensive Features and Functionality

•  Real-time patient tracking through the radiology process manages all patient information
•  Patient orders and waiting lists
•  Patients scheduling - Supports: departmental, enterprise, multi-site schedule
•  Patient registration - Supports: departmental, enterprise, multi-site schedule
•  Insurance authorizations
•  Patient arrival and tracking
•  Extensive workflow management, and totally configurable worklists: Each user has the ability to manage preferences for unique, private, customized work list including:
•  Technologies work list
•  Radiologist work list
•  Physician's work list
•  Verification
•  Electronic signoff with signature
•  Transcriptionists' work lists
•  Supports embedded digital voice dictation
•  Supports voice recognition
•  Canned reporting templates, macros
•  MS Word availability
•  Report and image distribution
•  Automated billing integration
•  Charge capture and coding
•  IDC-9, IDC 10 and CPT codes, with modifiers
•  HC PC codes
•  Free text entry and descriptions to minimize rejected healthcare clients
•  Film library management
•  Bar coding
•  Pre-fetch lists
•  Sign out and tracking
•  Extensive auditing and statistical analytical tools
•  Using Crystal reports, business objects and standard HTML reports
•  Messages, reminders and alerts, sent via work lists, e-mail, fax, and pager
•  Inventory, stock control management tools
•  Equipment management tools
•  Patient drug and radiation dose monitoring capability for each patient
•  Support for bar codes and printer when necessary
•  Data dictionaries supporting multiple foreign languages as a user preference
•  Supports multi-center or enterprise operation
•  Establish differing discrete registration and scheduling parameters for centers
•  Tailored registration screens
•  Shows availability of all needed resources, all resources associated with appointments diary and scheduling shown as real-time snapshots
•  Scheduling module permits single data entry for multiple locations
•  Supports automatic EDI feeds into work list for authorization and scheduling
•  Single database, utilizing rules engine to permit individual room scheduling per modality, per site, by priority
•  Referring physician work list supported
•  Referring physicians are able to schedule directly into the system
•  Referring physicians can check their patient progress automatically through the system
•  Review of patient's records and images via web-based services
•  Enables immediate transmission of results via e-mail, fax, wireless, e-mail
•  Permits pager or other messaging capability to notify availability of results
•  Patient portal
•  Permits patients to create, confirm or change appointments, update insurance or demographic info and review pre-procedural documentation

"Simple in nature and timely in their emergence, Web services will drive the next generation of software. Web services will serve as an attractive means through which enterprises can gain access to software and business services." - Gartner Group, Inc.

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“ Web services deliver the functionality generally demanded through software simply through dynamic integration. This functionality enables radical change, not only in the way software is delivered, but also in the expectations businesses will have of the software.” - The GARTNER GROUP, Inc.

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Proven results and satisfied prestigious clients
Guardian/Wise has been providing cutting edge Healthcare IT and radiology products for 18 years. Our products are currently installed in over 30 hospitals in the UK and our first clients are still using our products!

Experienced and knowledgeable executive management team
Guardian Healthcare Systems' senior management team has, on average, 20 years of executive experience in Radiology, healthcare IT, communications and management. We fully understand current and future IT and radiology healthcare challenges and are committed to delivering results by providing our clients superior products and solutions tailored to their unique needs.

Commitment to client satisfaction through innovation
Our company innovatively approaches existing problems and industry challenges. Guardian Healthcare Systems, through its acquisition of Wise Healthcare, was the first healthcare company to embrace web technology for medical applications, introducing our first web product in 1997.

“Low cost of total ownership” business approach
By embracing open systems architecture principles, supporting industry standards and taking full advantage of commercial off-the-shelf technologies Guardian maximizes the efficient use of clients' hardware and software resources, affording a “low cost of total ownership.”

Web services technologies
Web services represent an efficient platform on which Guardian builds distributed applications with interoperability as the highest priority. This software architecture provides an easy and economical upgrade path to new features and applications for the continual enhancement of our FlowPoint product's performance and value.

Web services approach provides a flexible clinical platform
FlowPoint's web services design, which includes XML, DICOM and HL-7 provides an exceptional approach for integrating disparate information systems, optimizing healthcare professionals' workflow, providing ready access to images, reports and other critical information, and significantly improving the levels of satisfaction for referring physician's and other caregivers utilizing radiology information.

Flexible purchase options
Guardian recognizes that radiology healthcare today requires not only an adaptable and efficient technology strategy, but also a flexible financial strategy to meet the needs of a challenging and competitive industry. To meet these demands, Guardian provides various acquisition programs tailored to our clients' individual needs.

Corporate partnering program
Guardian is committed to providing the best the industry has to offer. To that end, Guardian has established partnerships with companies including: Microsoft, IBM, AVnet, EIZO, Motion Computing, Matrox and NeuroStar. Aligning people, workflow processes, knowledge and IT technologies to deliver clinical and financial results to our clients. Through corporate teamwork and establishing client partnerships, Guardian is committed to optimizing the clinical and financial value of our radiology information systems to our clients. By providing ready access to operational metrics and business analysis and requirements, we enable our clients to strategically align their business operations to optimize operational resources ensuring a rapid return on investment.

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Aligning Information Technologies with Radiology to optimize Business and Clinical Results

• 18 years of Radiology experience & first radiology information company to introduce a radiology information system based on web technology.

• Flow Point's software architecture, called Virtology, is based on a web services approach. Web services represents a new platform on which can be built distributed applications with interoperability as the highest priority.  Web services also provide additional application-level services such as security, session management, distributed transactions all of which require complex communication patterns of their own.

• Flow Point provides a very cost effective alternative to the modern radiology department:

• Single database
• Open system platform; Unix, Windows, Linux 
• Seamlessly integrated single application RIS / PACS system
• Application configuration flexibility to meet clinical and business needs
• Professional Services and corporate partnerships to add value and align resources
• Easy upgrade pathway to future applications

• Flexible product pricing acquisitions models

• Single enterprise, exam based perpetual license
• Single enterprise, exam based subscription pricing
• Leasing programs