Case Study

Automation Doubles Patient Adherence to Lung Cancer Screening Follow-up Recommendations

Southtowns Radiology

Automation Doubles Patient Adherence to Lung Cancer Screening Follow-up Recommendations

Legacy Challenges

Historically, the Southtowns Radiology nurse used a spreadsheet to track patient follow-up status and used pre-printed letters stored in “reminder”  files. These required manual organization and upkeep, as there was no way to know if a patient had fallen through the cracks. As a result, organic adherence rates were around 22% for all patients except those requiring immediate follow-up.

Doubled Follow-up Adherence

Upon implementing the Agamon Health Coordinate platform in December 2023, Southtowns Radiology improved the following aspects of its LCS program:

Therefore, after only six (6) months, patient follow-up adherence rates dramatically increased for all LCS patients, particularly those whose follow-up is 3 months or longer. After screening 1,400 patients during the first half of 2024, Southtowns Radiology more than doubled their:

  1. Total follow-up adherence rate from 22% to 48%. 
  2. Follow-up adherence rate for patients with Lung-RADS scores 1, 2 & 3. 
* Lung-RADS scores 4B, 4X, 0, & S (Incidental Findings)
“Agamon Health has had a very positive impact on our patient adherence rates and has significantly contributed to our ability to improve patient care,” says Dan Strauch, Director of Operations for Southtowns Radiology, “Agamon Health has helped capture patient exam volume that should be coming back to us but often does not.”

Southtowns Radiology was able to double their patient follow-up adherence rate because Agamon Health enabled the following:

What our customers say…

“Agamon has built advanced AI and NLP that assess the significance of findings extracted from unstructured medical text, starting with radiology reports. This helps us make sure no important clinical recommendation ever falls through the cracks.”

Dr. Daniel Siegal

Dr. Daniel Siegal

Vice Chair of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System

“Agamon helps us gain meaningful insights on our performance, clinical decisions and patient conditions. This allows us to quickly react to different conditions and ultimately deliver faster & better care for our patients.״

Dr. Michal Guindy

Dr. Michal Guindy

Assuta Medical Centers

"Agamon addresses a clear need in the market to structure and analyze healthcare data with the help of machine learning and to turn it into meaningful real-world evidence."

Dr. Sebastian Guth

Dr. Sebastian Guth

President, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

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