Sheridan Healthcare expanded its partnership with Candescent Health.
Here are five things to know:
1. The two organizations are expanding an existing contract to include Candescent's services to Sheridan's South Florida practice, creating a network of more than 150 radiologists covering more than 2 million radiology studies.
2. The partnership allows Sheridan to leverage Candescent's software-enabled service, RadPerform, within their South Florida practice.
3. Another Sheridan practice, Radisphere, used the Candescent software-enabled service and saw a substantial reduction in medical errors rates — 29 percent below the published benchmarks — and improvement in productivity, which is now 20 percent above industry standards.
4. Sheridan will now expand Candescent's services to its South Florida practice interpreting a combined 800,000 studies annually.
5. Radisphere's basic service metrics include results delivered in less than 60 minutes 99 percent of the time; subspecialty coverage is above standard with 95 percent turnaround times met.
"We've seen first-hand how Candescent's RadPerform solution can help radiologists deliver better, more efficient patient care and we're excited about integrating this solution across more of our practices," said Sheridan Health Senior Vice President of Radiology Services Maria Rodriguez, MD.