RadPhysics Services LLC (RadPhysics) provides radiation oncology professionals with a comprehensive and integrated approach to error management. Our company supplies a software program for reducing medical errors and making substantial process improvements in radiation oncology.
RadPhysics was established in 2008. Our office is located in Albuquerque, NM. RadPhysics is the first company to offer a software-based error reduction/compliance program (MERP) intended to reduce preventable systems-related medical errors and violations of regulatory requirements in radiation oncology.
MERP is designed to facilitate a team approach in process improvement to help minimize mistakes and improve clinical workflow. This approach allows all users, from administrators, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation safety officers, dosimetrists, therapists, billing and clerical staff to be involved in the plan of action and contribute to the solution. RadPhysics provides a comprehensive but practical approach to improving patient safety. Our MERP product is a proven tool that helps reduce errors, improve patient safety, and drive efficiency in radiotherapy.
YEARS OF EXP
SOFTWARE FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY
REDUCING ERRORS
Our team has extensive experience in medical error reduction, medical physics, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, radiation safety, organizational and process improvement, project management, software development, and corporate law. Some of our employees have technical degrees in areas such as computer science, computer engineering, or information systems. Others have advanced graduate degrees (PhD, MS, or JD) in medical physics, organization/industrial psychology, or law, and hold various certifications/licenses. Executive leaders and team members of RadPhysics have worked as medical physicists and dosimetrists for major medical centers and universities as well as large health care corporations and commercial companies located throughout the country. In addition, certain of our team members work with RadPhysics in an advisory capacity.
Our regulatory experience includes work at the state and federal (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) levels in areas of inspection, medical rule-making, and enforcement. Our professional organizational experience includes individuals who have served or currently serve in various committee chairmanship roles for different professional societies and colleges associated with medical physics. We have collaborations with universities and large healthcare organizations such as Virginia Tech, NC State, and MedStar RadAmerica.
MERP helps facilitate a safety culture where greater attention is directed at confirming that detailed processes are performed correctly by referencing various standards, recommendations, and regulations.
MERP provides a methodology to measure performance against benchmark standards of practice.
Radiation oncology is an exceedingly complicated system where accidents happen. Any single error, combination, and propagation of errors in radiation oncology can negatively impact patient outcomes. An error reduction program helps institutions minimize risk to patients and health care workers.
MERP is a medical error reduction software program specifically designed to help minimize errors, improve performance, reduce cost, lessen liability, decrease regulatory infractions, and positively contribute to patient outcomes in the radiation oncology treatment delivery process.
Ineffective error management can lead to reduced quality, increased inefficiency, and increased legal and/or regulatory liabilities.
MERP is a powerful tool for implementing proactive risk reduction through error analysis and action plans. MERP facilitates a comprehensive approach to improving patient safety through the reduction of preventable systems-related errors.
