How to Start Offering Teleultrasound Services in 5 Easy Steps

Offering teleultrasound services is a great way to increase access to high-quality sonography services—and it’s never been easier to get started, thanks to TeleScan. There are five easy steps you need to take to offer a teleultrasound solution to your patients:

1. Attend a Discovery Meeting 

2. Review Your Complimentary Value Assessment 

3. Implement TeleScan  

4. Celebrate your Go-Live Day  

5. Increase Ultrasound Access 

Let’s discuss each step in detail and answer all your questions along the way.

Side note: Not sure if teleultrasound is right for your facility?  

Check out the Six Signs You Need a Telesonography® Solution. There’s even a handy dandy flowchart at the end!

1. Attend a Discovery Meeting

Your first step to offering accessible ultrasound to your patients is to learn more about the teleultrasound care model. The Discovery Meeting covers high-level functionality and benefits while leaving time to discuss the details about fitting it into your day-to-day operations.

More specifically, we want to start by learning more about the challenges you and your patients are facing. Do you have longstanding open roles due to the sonographer shortage? Are your patients sick of traveling to third-party imaging centers? Does your existing ultrasound staff need some support from perinatal experts? Let’s talk about how we can help. 

Then we’ll move on to discussing how TeleScan works. We’ll show you some behind-the-scenes footage, review the preliminary report we send to your reading provider, and introduce you to our data dashboard. 

Here are some questions we frequently hear about the Discovery Meeting: 

• Are there strings attached?  
  Nope! The Discovery Meeting is a no-obligation meeting. We do ask that you send us any questions and concerns that pop up after the meeting. We’d love the opportunity to answer those for you. 

• Are there materials I should review before the Discovery Meeting? 
  We do have a peer-reviewed white paper, case studies, and a blog that you can peruse before the meeting, but this is optional. The Discovery Meeting will cover all the basics, so prior reading is unnecessary. 

• Who should attend the Discovery Meeting? 
  We recommend bringing a healthy mix of leadership, operational, and clinical personnel to this meeting so that our innovative ultrasound solution can be evaluated from a variety of perspectives.   

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2. Review Your Complimentary Value Assessment

During the Discovery Meeting, we’ll collect a little basic billing information from you and prepare a complimentary value assessment for your facility. This assessment will be delivered to you in a follow-up message. 

In this document, we’ll provide a variety of service scenarios and their expected rates of return. We’ll also forecast your profitability over time and recommend a starting service level for your facility. 

 Here are some questions we frequently hear about the value assessment: 

• Is the value assessment actually customized to my facility? 
  Yes! You’ll notice all our charts and graphs accurately reflect the information you provide in the Discovery Meeting. 

• Can I use the value assessment to make a clear business case for TeleScan? 
  Yes! The value assessment demonstrates both the business case for today and its scalability for additional profitability in the future. 

• Will I receive additional financial data if I choose to implement TeleScan? 
  Yes! Over the first three months of service, we will capture and share key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure ongoing financial benefits to your organization. 

3. Implement TeleScan

You’ve learned more about TeleScan in the Discovery Meeting, discovered its profitability through the value assessment, and signed on the dotted line. Now it’s time to get you set up with TeleScan services. 

 You’ll find implementation to be a quick and easy process. A 45-minute introduction meeting kicks things off. We’ll gather a better understanding of your technical needs, identify your users, and make a plan. Following the kickoff, we’ll need just 1-4 meetings with your IT personnel to ensure seamless integration between the TeleScan laptop and your equipment.  

 Finally, we’ll train and certify your TeleScan users and have one last meeting to establish and communicate standard operating procedures for your facility.  

That’s it! Now, let’s go over some frequently asked questions: 

• How long does implementation take?  
  We need only four weeks after signing to get you up and running with TeleScan. 

• Will I have a dedicated TeleScan contact during implementation? 
  Yes, we will assign a project manager to your facility who will guide the implementation process and be available for questions.  

• Do my TeleScan users need prior certifications? 
  No. We will cover everything your users need to know to operate TeleScan during the training and certification process.

4. Celebrate Your Go-Live Day

The technology is integrated, the users are trained, and the SOPs are established. Congratulations, you’re ready to start seeing patients! We’ll be onsite to ensure everything runs smoothly.  

In addition, we’ll provide focused assistance during the two weeks following your go-live, just to make sure everything is functioning perfectly. 

Here are a few questions you might have about this step: 

• How do I know my TeleScan users are ready? 
  We’ll familiarize your users with the software and provide training, including hands-on practice, before go-live day. Your staff will be confident using TeleScan from Day 1. 

• How do I communicate this new service to my patients? 
  A conversation between the provider and patient is always your best bet. We do provide materials to supplement this conversation and have an article explaining how to prep patients for a TeleScan exam. 

• Will you help me market this new service? 
  We provide materials to help you market this new service on your website, to your community, and to other facilities that may need more accessible ultrasound. 
  

5. Increase Ultrasound Access

You did it! You completed the four previous steps, and now you’re offering high-quality teleultrasound services and increasing your patients’ access to ultrasound.  

 We often get a few questions related to the day-to-day workings of TeleScan, so we’ll answer those here:

• Who reads or interprets TeleScan's preliminary diagnostic reports? 
  Your onsite or telemedicine provider will read the reports.

• Are the reports and images stored in TeleScan?  
  Yes. TeleScan is an end-to-end solution, and we store your reports and images. 

• Can TeleScan integrate directly with my EMR?  
  Yes. We can work with your EMR administrator to seamlessly integrate TeleScan.  

 We hope this article has answered some of your questions about getting started with TeleScan. As you can see, it’s incredibly easy to increase your patients’ ultrasound access through teleultrasound services. If you’d like even more information about TeleScan, watch our on-demand demo by clicking the button below.

If you’re ready to get started today, Step 1 is the no-obligation Discovery Meeting. Use the button below to schedule your meeting.