CardiacConnections
If you have seen a significant increase in cardiac imaging among your members, you're not alone. The increasing incidence of heart disease in recent decades has resulted in explosive growth in cardiac imaging. What's more, too many of these procedures are clinically unnecessary and do not achieve the intended objective of helping the physician render an accurate and timely diagnosis.
With NIA's customizable CardiacConnections® solution, you have the power to drive better patient outcomes by defining the most efficient path to the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. This comprehensive approach connects patients with the right diagnostic exams at the right time from the most highly qualified providers.
The Power of CardiacConnections®
When you partner with NIA and utilize our CardiacConnections® solution, our expert team works with you and your providers to improve health care quality, reduce unnecessary costs and to engage cardiac patients in their health care decisions. This innovative solution offers more power to you, your providers and your members by:
- Providing clinical assessment of cardiac imaging through the complete diagnostic work-up.
- Consulting with your cardiologist providers to ensure patients receive appropriate tests to monitor their condition, using our powerful clinical algorithms and guidelines, based on patient symptoms as well as medical and imaging history.
- Significantly reducing the cost of care through promoting the most efficient and effective use of diagnostic examinations.
- Privileging providers who meet best-practice standards for experience, equipment and accreditation.
- Processing your providers' imaging requests efficiently through our clinically staffed online portal, http://www.radmd.com/, and our award-winning call center.
- Offering providers a wide range of educational and peer-to-peer consultative support.
Improving Health Care Quality
At NIA, one of our top priorities is to partner with you, your providers and your members in the quest to improve health care quality, as well as affordability.
CardiacConnections® has the power to accomplish this important goal by reducing radiation exposure and catheter-related complications, while promoting non-invasive testing when appropriate.
As a result, consumers avoid redundant and sometimes risky tests and unnecessary cardiac catheterizations. In addition, CardiacConnections® empowers your consumers through educational tools and support as they navigate the diagnostic process.
Innovations in Cardiac Care
By supporting the connection between patient and physician, CardiacConnections® addresses the full-spectrum management of cardiac imaging, with an emphasis on patients at risk of coronary artery disease. This approach allows us to apply best-practice guidelines, based on the patient's symptoms and medical and imaging history, to promote the most clinically appropriate approach.
This approach includes management of the following full spectrum of imaging tests, including:
- Coronary CT angiography (CCTA)
- Nuclear stress
- Echocardiography
- Stress echocardiography
- EBCT/calcium scoring
- Cardiac catheterizations
- Nuclear stress/MPI
NIA's CardiacConnections® is another example of our commitment to empower your business, your providers and your consumers through clinically appropriate programs that improve health care quality and outcomes. To find out more about CardiacConnections®, please contact us.