If you were constructing a home or commercial office building, would you want to establish and maintain your own mining operations, power plants, transmission lines, substations, transformers, outlets, converters, etc. in order to generate your own electricity? And then what about when a storm hits and power goes out, would you want to have your people out there in the deluge fixing problems and restringing power lines? Would you want to spend the time and money required to amass all the knowledge a power company has accumulated regarding the management of electrical power?

Radiology groups should ask a similar question when considering their information system needs. Why would you want to build your own power plant and run your own lines in the middle of a radiology storm of epic proportions? The answer is that in the post-PACS era we are living in, you would not do this.

The AccelaRAD solution works much like a utility. You need power today. With AccelaRAD as your “radiology power company” you simply have to make a phone call, plug in and the VRN solution is available tomorrow. With AccelaRAD, the power is already there, "waiting behind the wall," in effect. And because AccelaRAD is optimized for multi-site radiology groups, it really does not matter where the outlet is located that you need to plug into. AccelaRAD delivers true virtualization for radiology groups, providing a solution you can use anywhere and anytime. It is fully Web-based with no need for virtual private networks (VPNs) or static IPs.

Our outsourced model means we are a pure, services-focused company. Instead of dropping off a PACS box with a manual to decipher to try and make the investment count, we are there with our clients, day-in and day-out. Our pricing model is designed to be “pay-as-you-go" with no risk and ever increasing value. This is simply not the case with other alternatives.

AccelaRAD delivers faster new release cycles than other solution providers in the market. With our competitors, in order to upgrade your software, you must schedule and endure a six-month upgrade process. AccelaRAD delivers automatic, instant software upgrades. This process is transparent, fast and far more responsive. We run parallel to what our clients need, not what our product schedule says.

The outsourced radiology platform created by AccelaRAD solves the radiology reading problem from both the patient and the physician perspective, eliminating all the IT-related hassles and burdens for our clients. In the past, doctors had to travel to facilities in order to read studies or facilities had to shift to an expensive, courier-based solutions. The AccelaRAD solution is far more elegant and cost-effective. It is designed with the radiology group in mind and not based on forcing a hospital-centric PACS system to do what it was not designed to do.