Radiation Oncology

ARIA enables your treatment team to make informed, confident decisions for patients, and provides the tools required to effectively manage the administrative aspects of your department.

Disease management

The comprehensive, oncology-specific electronic medical record (EMR) is the centerpiece of the ARIA solution. With ARIA you can design a personalized care plan for each patient from initial diagnosis through follow-up.

ARIA automates cancer staging based on AJCC guidelines
Manage toxicities – graph or group according to disease site
Access lab results, pharmacy/drug orders, and medical oncology information

RT treatment plan review

Prescribe treatments, create and edit plans, track dose, and review reference images using ARIA's treatment plan management functionality.

Accelerate intent and prescription entry using customizable templates
Access plans created in Eclipse treatment planning software with no import/export steps
Import plan data from any DICOM-compliant treatment planning system

Image review

Guide treatment decisions with up-to-the-minute digital images. ARIA supports a wide range of multi-modality images including MV, kV, conventional CT, CBCT, MR and PET in support of your image-guided oncology program.

Review images remotely and send setup instructions to the treatment machine
Review dosimetric images for IMRT pre-treatment quality assurance
Compare images using automatic, manual or fiducial marker matching algorithms

Health assessment

Record, monitor and evaluate patient health throughout the course of treatment and design a personalized care plan that addresses the unique needs of each patient.

Record RoS and PE results using ARIA's automatic transcription tool
Graph changes in your patient's vital signs and lab results to identify trends
Create customizable data collection forms and questionnaires

RT chart auditing

Perform regular chart audits to oversee each patient's treatment course. Routine chart checks promote overall patient safety and help your department adhere to ACR and AMA guidelines.

Quickly identify plan changes and treatment overrides using color-coded cues
Create a reliable audit trail with electronic signature with date stamp
Authorize QA completion with a single mouse click

Electronic documentation

ARIA can help create a fully electronic, "paperless" department. Use ARIA to document clinical activities to support evidence-based and pay-for-performance initiatives.

Create customizable electronic forms to replace hard copy documentation
Provide an audit trial of document approvals using electronic signoff with date/time stamps
Attach images, files or patient photographs to documents

Scheduling

Manage staff, patient, and resource schedules with ARIA's user-friendly appointment and task management system.

Create recurring appointments and instantly identify any scheduling conflicts
Create task lists to organize workload and standardize care
Synchronize your work schedule in ARIA with your Microsoft Outlook™ calendar

Charge posting

Record all procedures and activities performed in your department at the point of care to ensure accurate charge posting. ARIA records all completed activities to enable charge and relative value unit (RVU) export, process tracking and productivity analysis.

Split technical and professional charges
Refine charges using relative value units (RVUs), procedure codes and multiple modifiers
Export charges to your choice of HL7-compliant billing software

Information/Image Transfer

Streamline department workflow by electronically exchanging patient data and images with other healthcare departments including pathology, radiology, pharmacy, lab and billing.

Specify real-time or schedule-driven update intervals
Use standard HL7 interfaces or create custom interfaces as required
Customize data filters to specify the types of information exchanged

Data archiving

Manage the growing volume of clinical data by periodically archiving patient records and images.

Save data to local hard drives, online storage devices, CD/DVD or DICOM-compliant PACS
Update demographic and scheduling information as required
Store data in DICOM and XML format to guarantee future access