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For healthcare professionals

Resources for healthcare professionals

Proactive and cohesive care for your patients with IBD

Resources for care providers in a rural setting are essential to providing the best care plan and treatments for your patients. Through the hub and spoke network of healthcare professionals and specialists, RADIUS empowers you to:

Stay up-to-date with IBD care

The RADIUS program offers regular professional growth opportunities by providing educational updates, informed by national and international gastroenterology guidance, as a quarterly national web-based multi-disciplinary meeting.

We additionally offer direct connection to the hub site team, for access to information from the specialty IBD team, when you need it.

Develop care plans

With the specialty resources and recommendations following a RADIUS Telehealth visit at a “hub site”, a complete and cohesive care plan will be shared with the patient’s established healthcare provider at the corresponding “spoke site”, who will continue to provide the long term IBD care needs for the patient.

Provide proactive care

The spoke site providers will be offered the opportunity to meet online with the RADIUS team on a regular basis, to continue to discuss the patient’s long-term care, beyond the initial one-time visit with the patient at the RADIUS hub site.

These web-based meetings will offer the opportunity for patient updates and collaborative decision making for patient care planning, thus offering long term support for your patients at an IBD specialty care center

Connect with RADIUS

As a healthcare professional, getting started with RADIUS is simple.

The RADIUS Program Coordinator at each Hub site is available to assist you with establishing and coordinating your referrals and connecting with your patients.

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FAQ

Answers to your questions

Which IBD patients will benefit most from RADIUS?

With every IBD patient having a unique and widely variable course, effective and targeted care and treatment plans are necessary. The following patients, who are above the age of 18 and live in the United States, will greatly benefit from RADIUS: 
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- Patients with a new diagnosis of IBD
- Patients with complications related to IBD
- Patients who may benefit from behavioral health or nutrition support
- Patients who have questions about their medications or insurance coverage
- Patients who want a second opinion from a specialty IBD team
- Patients who may benefit from a review of why a more intensive and proactive treatment plan is important

As a provider, how do I get started?

- Referring spoke providers contact a RADIUS hub site coordinator directly.
- The RADIUS coordinator will review the program with the patient by telephone
- Your patient is scheduled for a 2-hour virtual, multidisciplinary, comprehensive visit.
- The RADIUS team  coordinator will complete a pre-visit appointment before the visit with the full RADIUS team, along with an end-of-visit summary with the patient at the time of their RADIUS appointment, as well as a check-in phone call one week later. The coordinator will additionally connect back with the patient 6-12 months after their one-time RADIUS appointment as a further check in
- A 2-page visit summary letter is sent to the referring spoke site provider, along with the complete consultation notes. 

Patients continue to follow up with their referring spoke care provider. Every 2-3 months, the nurse care coordinator and gastroenterologist from the RADIUS hub site will meet with the spoke care provider to discuss and review current patient care and treatment plans and to provide 1:1 mentoring.

Quarterly webinars and an annual RADIUS symposium are available to provide didactic teaching and case reviews from all hub and spoke network care providers nationally.

As a patient, who will provide my treatment?

As a patient, you will continue to work with your local GI care provider. If you would like to be considered for a referral to a RADIUS site, your GI provider can connect with a RADIUS coordinator and send a referral for you to be seen.

What kind of information is collected about patients?

Information, or data, is collected from all RADIUS hub and spoke member sites to help us improve the care we provide to our patients; patient identity is not collected or used. Some of the information collected about a patient are:

- Which state in the USA that the patient lives in
- Whether a patient has Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis
- Patient’s reported top concern or goal of treatment and if the RADIUS team addressed the concern at the patient’s visit
- Which members of the RADIUS team the patient saw at their visit
- If the patient has had any recent emergency room (ER) visits or hospitalization admissions because of their IBD
- If the patient is currently prescribed steroids or pain medication (narcotics) for their IBD
- What medications a patient is currently taking for their IBD and if there is a plan to change the treatment plan
- The plan for follow up tests (such as a colonoscopy or an MRI) after the RADIUS visit