Mark H. Awh, M.D. is a founder of Radsource and a leading authority on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR). Dr. Awh is well known for his expertise in musculoskeletal MR and provides numerous lectures on the subject at national radiology meetings. He has co-authored a textbook on magnetic resonance imaging of the spine as well as book chapters on musculoskeletal MR and articular cartilage. In addition to his experience in musculoskeletal imaging, Dr. Awh is well versed in neurological and body MR. Dr. Awh holds the Certificate of Added Qualification in Neuroradiology from the American Board of Radiology.

Dr. Awh completed his undergraduate studies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Following medical school at the University of Mississippi, he performed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Awh then completed fellowship training in MRI at the University of Kentucky Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center.

Prior to founding Radsource, Dr. Awh served as Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and as President of one of the largest radiology private practices in the nation. Dr. Awh has been instrumental in the development and operation of multiple imaging centers and clinic-based radiology projects.

Michael E. Stadnick, M.D. – Medical Director

Michael E. Stadnick, M.D. is a founding member of Radsource. Before joining Radsource, Dr. Stadnick established himself as a successful and respected radiologist specializing in musculoskeletal MR.

Dr. Stadnick is a board-certified radiologist who received his residency training at SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse. Following his residency, Dr. Stadnick was invited to remain as assistant professor in the musculoskeletal radiology section where he became a valued clinical consultant and instructor, and gained extensive practical clinical experience during a six-year stay. Dr. Stadnick then entered private practice in Nashville, Tennessee where his expertise in musculoskeletal MR was instrumental in establishing an extremely successful MR practice during his four-year tenure.

Dr. Stadnick’s previous clinical responsibilities include Medical Director for various MR facilities and Director of Musculoskeletal Imaging at St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee. He recently co-authored book chapters on musculoskeletal MR and articular cartilage and has multiple articles to his credit. An accomplished artist, Dr. Stadnick has recently focused his talents on the field of medical illustration. His work has been featured in numerous presentations, articles and in musculoskeletal MR textbooks.

Jeffrey W. Carden – Chief Operating Officer

Jeffrey W. Carden comes to Radsource with more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare delivery industry. Before joining Radsource, Mr. Carden served in the capacity of Director of Information Technologies before being elevated to Chief Information Officer for a $150M physician services and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) company. The technologies and processes required to successfully manage physician practices, ASCs, and imaging centers were directly accountable to Mr. Carden during his tenure.

Previous experience includes the position of CIO for Nashville-based Health Advantage Network, a PPO company, as well as time with HealthTrust, the Hospital Company. In addition, his extensive experience in the specialty field of Orthopaedics makes him well suited to help guide Radsource. Mr. Carden received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Lipscomb University.

Jaclyn Carney – Senior Director, Business Development

Jaclyn Carney joined the Radsource team after several years of successful experience with both Medtronic Sofamor Danek and Orthofix, Inc. Her experience as a spinal and orthopedic device sales representative gives her the breadth of knowledge required to understand and appreciate the inner workings of the medical practices and their need for quality imaging services. Her knowledge and work ethic are a great asset that help Radsource remain the gold standard within the industry as it brings its specialized radiology services to new clients.

Jaclyn graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in the Communication of Science and a Minor in Medical Ethics. She completed her Masters in Business Administration from the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University.

Al Azmitia – Senior Director, Product Development

Al Azmitia focuses his efforts, experience and industry knowledge on the development of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), Radiology Information System (RIS), and Electronic Health Record (EHR), including the integration and support of these products for physician practices and imaging providers.

Mr. Azmitia brings over 30 years of diverse information technology experience to Radsource, which includes 18 years of progressive leadership roles and responsibilities in the healthcare industry while working for successful and growing companies such as Community Health Systems, Ardent Health Services, iPractice Group and Anthem Healthcare Intelligence.

He has also worked as an independent consultant performing services in program and project management, architecture design, process improvement, contract negotiation and financial analysis for healthcare provider companies. Mr. Azmitia holds a Masters in Business Administration from Jones International University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering Technology from Southern Illinois University.

David Jewell, MD, Advanced Imaging of Lafayette- Lafayette, LA

ProtonPACS has really changed our approach to radiology interpretation. The system is remarkably easy to use and lightning fast. Prior to ProtonPACS, I had never used voice recognition, and of course I was highly skeptical that the system would improve my workflow. To my pleasant surprise, I was able to easily use the voice recognition from day one, and have been 100% voice recognition since inception. The integration of the dictation system within ProtonPACS is seamless and highly efficient. I am able to deliver my reports instantly, and I certainly don’t miss the need to sign a batch of transcribed reports at the end of a long day.

Fred Emrick, MD, Riverpark Medical Center- Vidalia, LA

ProtonPACS allows radiologists to accurately and rapidly review studies, create and approve reports and deliver the finished product to referring colleagues. We recognize that efficiency is increasingly important in Medical Imaging, and ProtonPACS is engineered to minimize mouse clicks and dictation time. Plus, the need for paper in your workflow is completely eliminated.

Of course when it comes to workflow, the reliability of ProtonPACS could be its most important advantage. It is uniquely engineered to eliminate downtime that is common with other PACS. With an on-site server supported by off-site infrastructure, ProtonPACS works even if your server is down or your Internet service is interrupted.

Workflow Management

Worklist profiles can be created using any combination of filters, any of which can be easily saved. You can sort your worklist by priority, date/time, study description or any number of other parameters. Saved filters are available at a click of a button, making it easy to manage workflow between locations or specialties.

Patient demographic data is automatically populated in your reports, eliminating the need to dictate this information. Patient clinical data, exam history and prior reports are all readily viewable within the worklist interface. Simply double click a study to load and you are ready to dictate. In addition, an unlimited number of cases can be simultaneously opened and dictated partially or completely, which means that you will never lose your progress when you are asked to consult on another patient.

Review of studies is equally efficient, as layout protocols that you easily customize are set for each modality, and relevant comparison studies and old reports are at your fingertips for side-by-side evaluation. Advanced tools assure that you can rapidly optimize images, change layouts, measure critical data points, save key images or presentation states, or perform reconstructions on the fly.

As your work day progresses, the worklist tracks your activity, providing tabs to rapidly view reports that you have signed or need to sign, and detailing the status of cases. Any reports you have completed are available on a tab, so when a referring physician calls to discuss a report you recently signed, you can easily recall the images and report. Everything is designed to make you a more efficient and productive radiologist.

Radiologist Reporting

In the past, speech recognition made the radiologist’s job more cumbersome. But that was before ProtonPACS. Our solution finally offers integrated speech recognition technology that makes you faster and more efficient.

It begins with superior speech engine software from MModal that delivers outstanding accuracy from day one without the need to train it to recognize individual voice and speech patterns. Then it only gets better, automatically learning from its mistakes.

A major ProtonPACS advantage: speech recognition is tightly integrated with the PACS. No manual setup is needed, and there is no need to launch the speech recognition engine it automatically opens and immediately ties your comments and reports to the images on your screen. It is truly impossible to dictate a report on the wrong patient the speech recognition software knows what images you are viewing and only allows you to dictate on that case.

If you open another viewer tab, you can dictate findings on that or any number of other cases. Plus, you are not required to complete cases before moving to another the speech engine knows what you are working on and seamlessly moves to that case. This capability is particularly helpful, for example, when you are asked to review and/or report an urgent case in the middle of another case. You can quickly change gears, and when you return to your original case, you simply pick back up wherever you left off.

The speech recognition platform is further engineered to increase your efficiency in other ways. Customized templates are created to your specifications, and normal studies can simply be approved with the reports already prefilled and automatically loaded based on the study description of the case at hand. Corrections are rapid and easy since you are viewing the reports and images in real-time, and corrections can be made via voice or routine mouse functions the choice is yours.

Overall, the system is surprisingly easy to learn and use. The result for the radiologist is faster workflow, more accurate reports (since your are reviewing them immediately upon completing the case) and the elimination of the tiresome need to check your queues for reports to sign. And the rapid delivery of reports greatly decreases turnaround time and transcription expenses.

Of course, traditional transcription services can be utilized. In such cases ProtonPACS automatically sends digital voice files to transcriptionists who in turn send back transcribed reports that appear on your signing worklist

In many radiology practices, significant IT resources are unavailable or too costly, and financial pressures preclude large capital outlays for software, hardware and data centers. With ProtonPACS, your practice enjoys the benefits of Intelerad’s #1 rated ambulatory PACS software, fully hosted, enhanced and supported at your location and in our data centers. You will enjoy greater efficiency and accuracy, and your referring physicians will receive better service. Most importantly, the reliability and support provided by ProtonPACS allow you to focus on your core business, providing professional interpretations.

We do it free of charge, ensuring that data passes freely and cleanly between your systems and ours.

You can launch our viewer within any existing EMR, RIS or billing system through HL7 integration. Or we can provide the entire solution RIS, EHR, billing, scheduling and more to give you one point of data entry, which eliminates redundant work and reduces errors.

Either way, we take full responsibility for integration, allowing you to focus on your patients and practice.

It’s all part of our seamless implementation, which enables ProtonPACS to be fully functional as rapidly as possible, with no headaches or guesswork.

Intelerad also received the 2009 Frost and Sullivan Healthcare Innovation Award for Medical Imaging Workflow Solutions and was named to the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, recognizing companies that transform the way business is performed.

Enhanced by Radsource

Tools from Intelerad are further enhanced and engineered by Radsource for ProtonPACS. Radsource is uniquely positioned within the PACS market we not only offer turnkey PACS, we are also daily clinical users of ProtonPACS and have been instrumental in the development of many of the product features. We blend the strengths of Intelerad as a software developer with our expertise as PACS operational experts, providing all necessary hardware (installation, maintenance and upgrades), report delivery, HL7 integration, and industry-leading customer support.

So we begin with seamless implementation, led by a ProtonPACS Project Manager who coordinates all resources and keeps in constant contact with you throughout the process. This allows ProtonPACS be fully functional in weeks, rather than months.

And through our proprietary conversion technology, we can transfer and store data from any current PACS with no headaches or guesswork. This includes any of your images stored in standard DICOM, and even some that are not.

Because we also recognize that communication with other information systems is increasingly important, we build as many HL7 interfaces on our end that you require free of charge, a service that typically costs thousands of dollars from other PACS providers.

Software and Hardware Updates

InteleViewer software from Intelerad, one of the most respected names in imaging technology, is installed on each of your existing viewing workstations in reading rooms, pods and other clinical areas. Our service comes with free, regular software updates and enhancements, so you are never left behind.

You also receive free, regularly scheduled hardware and network upgrades. That means you never have to tolerate old hardware while waiting for an upgrade. It is our responsibility to keep your servers up to date and optimally functioning.

Outstanding Personal Service

After installation, your calls to our help line are answered by a real person with the expertise to address any issue. We also monitor your system remotely to diagnose and correct problems, often before you are even aware of them. We guarantee to be on site for any PACS-related hardware issue within four hours. Remote support is provided within minutes.

Finally, to help you get the most from ProtonPACS, our support team is available for instruction via web conferencing or onsite, one-on-one training. All this helps you get back to business and focus on what’s important to you.

As part of our service, we provide you with a high-end, on-site server, which hosts our software and allows studies to be accessed at lightning-fast local-network speeds.

Additionally, through a secure Internet connection the system immediately replicates each study, delivering four levels of redundancy at two data centers. Each is earthquake tolerant with a guaranteed power supply. And advanced streaming technology allows your studies to be available anytime, from anywhere.

Our system is fully HIPAA compliant, and your studies are stored for a minimum of seven years or seven years beyond age 18. You maintain ownership of your studies we simply provide the peace of mind of knowing your images are protected. Best of all, there are no added fees for this unmatched security and redundancy.

Engineered to eliminate downtime and delays associated with other PACS, ProtonPACS removes bottlenecks for real-time, lightning-fast image viewing.

All this speed comes without compromises in quality. Using Intelerad® software, ranked #1 by KLAS, images are viewed at full resolution, and the viewer is much easier to use than those from other PACS systems. Every step is optimized with easily customizable toolsets. Users can create their own unique PACS experience that displays their viewing preferences, and those preferences follow you wherever you login.

Advanced features like 3-D cursor viewing; intelligent filtering and search; spine labeling; and instant side-by-side comparisons of current and prior images help you do your job faster and more efficiently.

ProtonPACS allows radiologists to accurately and rapidly review studies, create and approve reports, and deliver the finished product to referring colleagues. We recognize that efficiency is increasingly important in Medical Imaging, and ProtonPACS is engineered to minimize mouse clicks and dictation time. Plus, the need for paper in your workflow is completely eliminated.

Of course when it comes to workflow, the reliability of ProtonPACS could be its most important advantage. It is uniquely engineered to eliminate downtime that is common with other PACS. With an on-site server supported by off-site infrastructure, ProtonPACS works even if your server is down or your Internet service is interrupted.

Workflow Management

Worklist profiles can be created using any combination of filters, any of which can be easily saved. You can sort your worklist by priority, date/time, study description, or any number of other parameters. Saved filters are available at a click of a button, making it easy to manage workflow between locations or specialties.

Patient demographic data is automatically populated in your reports, eliminating the need to dictate this information. Patient clinical data, exam history and prior reports are all readily viewable within the worklist interface. Simply double click a study to load and you are ready to dictate. In addition, an unlimited number of cases can be simultaneously opened and dictated partially or completely, which means that you will never lose your progress when you are asked to consult on another patient.

Review of studies is equally efficient, as layout protocols that you easily customize are set for each modality, and relevant comparison studies and old reports are at your fingertips for side-by-side evaluation. Advanced tools assure that you can rapidly optimize images, change layouts, measure critical data points, save key images or presentation states, or perform reconstructions on the fly.

As your work day progresses, the worklist tracks your activity, providing tabs to rapidly view reports that you have signed or need to sign, and detailing the status of cases. Any reports you have completed are available on a tab, so when a referring physician calls to discuss a report you recently signed, you can easily recall the images and report. Everything is designed to make you a more efficient and productive radiologist.

Radiologist Reporting

In the past, speech recognition made the radiologist’s job more cumbersome. But that was before ProtonPACS. Our solution finally offers integrated speech recognition technology that makes you faster and more efficient.

It begins with superior speech engine software from MModal that delivers outstanding accuracy from day one without the need to train it to recognize individual voice and speech patterns. Then it only gets better, automatically learning from its mistakes.

A major ProtonPACS advantage: speech recognition is tightly integrated with the PACS. No manual setup is needed, and there is no need to launch the speech recognition engine it automatically opens and immediately ties your comments and reports to the images on your screen. It is truly impossible to dictate a report on the wrong patient the speech recognition software knows what images you are viewing and only allows you to dictate on that case.

If you open another viewer tab, you can dictate findings on that or any number of other cases. Plus, you are not required to complete cases before moving to another the speech engine knows what you are working on and seamlessly moves to that case. This capability is particularly helpful, for example, when you are asked to review and/or report an urgent case in the middle of another case. You can quickly change gears and when you return to your original case, you simply pick back up wherever you left off.

The speech recognition platform is further engineered to increase your efficiency in other ways. Customized templates are created to your specifications, and normal studies can simply be approved with the reports already prefilled and automatically loaded based on the study description of the case at hand. Corrections are rapid and easy since you are viewing the reports and images in real-time, and corrections are made via voice or routine mouse functions the choice is yours.

Overall, the system is surprisingly easy to learn and use. The result for the radiologist is faster workflow, more accurate reports (since your are reviewing them immediately upon completing the case) and the elimination of the tiresome need to check your queues for reports to sign. And the rapid delivery of reports greatly decreases turnaround time and transcription expenses.

Of course, traditional transcription services can be utilized. In such cases ProtonPACS automatically sends digital voice files to transcriptionists who in turn send back transcribed reports that appear on your signing worklist