Current State of Interpreting ECGs

The American College of Cardiology found of physicians who
        self-selected to be tested on reading ECGs, that

·         70% of ALL non-IM physicians failed,  
·         49% of ALL Internal Medicine physicians failed,
·         9 % of Cardiologists failed.

                             AND

·         30% of all machine interpretations failed,
  
        Of all ECG Interpretation Errors

              Up to 11% had associated 
                morbidity and mortality

What does this mean to your patients?
   Or to your institution's reputation?

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Certified EKG Interpretation explained...

Doctor 2 Doctor's Mission

Doctor 2 Doctor’s Mission is three-fold.  First, to provide a service that helps our customers exceed the 2005 Standard of Care for ECG Interpretation.  Second, to electronically transfer expertise in cardiac diagnostics to the patient’s local healthcare community, in order to improve patient care while minimizing costs to the healthcare system.  Third, to support and strengthen healthcare communities providing service away from population centers.  (As an added bonus, we help “starve” malpractice attorneys while doing all of this for our customers!)

Avoid the Avoidable!  With Minimum Risk!

On contract signing, Doctor 2 Doctor charges a Start Up Fee (waived for CAH members) to cover training and server setup costs. We normally credit the fee back at 50 cents per ECG interpreted. During the first 30 days, if you decide our service is not what you need, you simply send us a written explanation of why you have decided to stop, and we will credit up to half of your Start Up Fee against the ECGs you submitted during that time.  Your only obligation will be to pay the difference or accept the refund. In fact, if you sign a contract before 1 January 2010, we will refund up to half of your Start Up fee against your first months ECGs when you decide to continue!  

Improving patient care doesn't get any safer or simpler than this.

 

 

 

The 2005 AHA/ACC Standard of Care
for ECG Interpretation asserts

All ECGs must be read by Qualified ECG Readers.

Qualified ECG Readers are Cardiologists or
Tested Physicians.

Best Practice stipulates

ALL ECGs are read by Qualified ECG Readers
within 24 hours.

The D2D Expert ECG Interpretation Service
provided by our pool of electrocardiologists

EXCEEDS

the standard and best practice.

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