DXA Encode: more cases a day, reports ready to sign
Patients fill in their history on a tablet in the waiting room. The technologist’s worksheet fills in from your scanner and prior exams, so the appointment isn’t spent on paperwork. The draft report follows CAR guidance and lands in PACS and your dictation software for the radiologist to review and sign. It runs in the browser and works with the scanners you already have.
40% less tech time per case
25 min → 15 min per patient
Up to 56% more cases scanned
18 → 28 cases per day
90% faster reporting
5 min → less than 30s
Already running across Canada
29
DXA scanners live
At hospitals and clinics across Canada
6,134+
BMD reports delivered
Across those sites so far
36+
Languages supported
Patients answer on a tablet, in their own language
Every site has to adopt the latest CAR and Osteoporosis Canada guidelines
Doing it by hand adds time to every exam. DXA Encode does it for you.
More history per patient
FRAX needs a lot more patient history than CAROC. Asking those questions at the scanner adds minutes to every exam.
New treatment and follow-up rules
Treatment recommendations and re-testing intervals changed too. Every template has to be updated, and kept up to date.
Doing it by hand is expensive
Reworking worksheets, thresholds and templates falls on staff who are already stretched.
How it works
Three handoffs, from patient intake to signed report
Patient
Tablet questionnaire
Patients answer the fracture-risk questions on a tablet in the waiting room, in any of 36+ languages. The questionnaire can be as long as the guideline needs without slowing your day, so the technologist can focus on the scan.
Technologist
Automatic worksheet
The worksheet fills in from the questionnaire and brings forward prior measurements from DXA exports and previous exams. Height, weight, precision thresholds and scan-mode changes are calculated for you, and clinically important changes are highlighted.
Radiologist
A report ready to sign
Measurements and comparisons carry through, the CAROC or FRAX logic is applied, and the draft report follows CAR guidance with the technologist’s notes included. The worksheet goes to PACS as a secondary capture and the report goes to RIS or dictation for sign-off.
View sample reportsCAROC and FRAX are both built in. When the guidance changes again, we update the logic, treatment recommendations and follow-up intervals and send them to you to approve. You won’t have to do this work twice.
Works with what you already run
Scanners
GE and Hologic
The two you’re most likely to have.
PACS
Any PACS
Standard DICOM, so you don’t need anything special from your PACS vendor.
Dictation
Any voice recognition
In practice, Fluency or PowerScribe.
HIS and EHR
Optional, including Epic
Helpful but not required. DXA Encode works without it.
This is what the radiologist opens
Measurements, comparisons and fracture risk are already filled in, in your site’s own template, ready to sign.
Report
Status:
Patient
SAMPLE, PATIENT
MRN
SMP-100412
Accession
1915199576004821
Date of birth
1951-02-14 (age 75)
Sex
Female
Study date
2026-06-12
Bone Mineral Density
DENSITY (g/cm²) | T-SCORE | Z-SCORE | DENSITY PRIOR (g/cm²) | CHANGE (g/cm²) | CHANGE (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spine L2-L4. | 0.835 | -2.5 | -0.2 | 0.874 | -0.039 | -4.5 |
| Right Femoral Neck. | 0.631 | -2.6 | -1.1 | |||
| Right Total Hip. | 0.590 | -3.4 | -1.9 | 0.615 | -0.025 | -4.1 |
DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORY: Osteoporosis.
10-YEAR MAJOR OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURE RISK (FRAX): 20.0%
RISK FACTORS: Glucocorticoids (Chronic). Secondary Osteoporosis. Cortisone (50 mg) 2025-01 - (ongoing). Aromatase inhibitors.
BONE-ACTIVE DRUG THERAPY: No.
LIMITATIONS: Vertebra(e) has/have been excluded from analysis as the T-score(s) is/are at least one standard deviation greater than the T-score of the vertebra with the next highest value. The left hip was not assessed due to orthopedic intervention. Fracture risk is likely underestimated because an osteoporotic T-score at the lumbar spine, femoral neck, or total hip is not accounted for in FRAX.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Pharmacotherapy is recommended as per the 2023 Osteoporosis Canada guideline.
FOLLOW-UP: 1 year, given significant interval bone loss.
LSC (least significant change) at Westview Imaging Centre: Lumbar Spine - 0.031 gm/cm² Total Hip - 0.019 gm/cm²
Where the time goes
All of this is technologist time. Positioning and scanning stay the same. The paperwork around them is what shrinks.
| Step | Now | With DXA Encode |
|---|---|---|
| Height and weight measurement | 3 min | 3 min |
| Take history | 5 min | 1 min |
| Scan acquisition | 10 min | 10 min |
| Complete tech sheet | 5 min | 1 min |
| Scanning into PACS | 2 min | 0 min |
| Total technologist time | 25 min | 15 min |
That’s where the extra appointments come from.
Proven results
At a major Ontario hospital network, DXA Encode cut technologist time per case from 25 minutes to 15 minutes. At that rate a scanner has room for up to 28 patients a day instead of 18, though how many a site actually adds depends on how its list is booked.
What the extra capacity is worth
Those cases are billed on scanners you already own, by staff you already have.
+4
cases per day
×
240
clinic days a year
×
$55
in technical fees per case
=
$53K
additional billings per scanner, per year
We used four extra cases a day, well below the ceiling above, so the number holds up even if you only get part of the gain. It counts the technical fee alone. Your figure depends on your provincial fee schedule, operating days and case mix, and the professional fee adds to it where you bill that too. We’ll go through your numbers on a demo.
See it in action
A walkthrough of the whole flow, from the patient questionnaire to the signed report.
See it on your own setup
We’ll walk through your scanner, your report template and what the extra capacity is worth at your site.
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