What is SIGBA?

What is SIGBA®?

SIGBA® is a MRI patient care product line and patient-centered, skill and evidence-based, approach to managing anxiety and claustrophobia during MRI exams. In a clinical study SIGBA® reduced anxiety in MRI patients by 77%.

Providing quality healthcare is a team effort. SIGBA® strengthens the healthcare team by providing patients, technologists, and imaging centers with additional skills and tools to provide a higher standard of care.

SIGBA® brings a multidimensional, approach to MRI patient care. This approach goes beyond the one-size fits all method and takes the individual’s specific needs into consideration. The SIGBA® technique combines both western and eastern medicine philosophies to provide an integrative medicine approach to produce a superior holistic and patient-centered care. 1

The SIGBA® technique combines multiple approaches to reducing anxiety during MRI exams, with a focus on breathing techniques and aromatherapy. Aromatherapy defined as the therapeutic use of essential oils.

Providing quality healthcare is a team effort. SIGBA® strengthens the healthcare team by providing patients, technologists, and imaging centers with additional skills and tools to provide a higher standard of care.

Why SIGBA®?

MRI exam experiences

SIGBA® reduces anxiety. Nearly 40 % of all patients who undergo an MRI exam experiences some form of anxiety ranging from mild apprehension to full blown panic attacks causing prematurely canceled exams. 2,3

SIGBA® reduces

SIGBA® reduces cancelled MRI exams. Up to 20% of all MRI examinations are cancelled yearly.6,7

SIGBA® saves money

SIGBA® reduces anxiety. Nearly 40 % of all patients who undergo an MRI exam experiences some form of anxiety ranging from mild apprehension to full blown panic attacks causing prematurely canceled exams. 2,3

Research shows

More alternative interventions to sedation is needed. Research shows more interventions aimed at reducing MRI anxiety are necessary.8,9 SIGBA® fills this need.

For Technologist

Radiologic Technologists has come a long way. Over the years the profession has gone from being called technicians to technologists.  Professional organizations formed to elevate the profession’s standing and respect in medicine.

The SIGBA® method presents another opportunity to further technologist’s knowledge and professional standing in healthcare. 

How does SIGBA® techniques make my job easier?

  • Sigba provides tools needed to reduce anxiety

  • Reduces anxiety by 77%
  • Reduces repeat scans due to motion
  • Less disruptions during exam
  • Easy for technologists and patients to learn
  • Increase your exam completion rate
  • Creates a benchmark in MRI patient care
  • Recognize technologist role in patient anxiety
  • Improve patient comfort and care

MRI technologists regularly encounter anxious patients.  Many interventions have been designed to reduce MRI anxiety and sedation use, but research shows more interventions are necessary.1,2

For Patients

How our Services Help Imaging Centers and Patients? Konxja® services offer simple personalized solutions for patients and your imaging center’s unique needs. Our methodology gives patients the reassurance and peace of mind to get through MRI exams and on the path to better health. We give you a game plan and knowledgeable radiologic technologists for dealing with anxiety resulting in fewer prematurely cancelled exams. Increase Efficiency MRI technologists see disruptions in their workflow from anxious and claustrophobic patients on a daily basis. SIGBA,® our trademarked technique can help decrease these disruptions by giving technologists evidence and skill based tools to keep patients calm. With fewer disruptions, technologists stay on schedule and patients receive superior care and support.”

For Business

Improve MRI patient care! We know that providing great patient-centered care and customer service is your goal. Using our methodology will increase patient satisfaction, and quality of care without excessive budget constraints. Konxja® consulting will help you identify areas of improvement and provide staff training focused on reducing patient anxiety with less or no sedation, while decreasing motion artifacts. Most importantly we help you improve your patient satisfaction to establish loyal customers.

Increase Exam Completion Rates

We can help your business save money by reducing the number of prematurely cancelled and no show MRI exams. How you ask? By teaching your staff techniques designed to reduce patient’s anxiety. SIGBA® Techniques for Technologists is a clinically tested and highly effective technique to reduce anxiety in MRI patients by 77%. Reduce MRI anxiety may reduce cancelled MRI exams resulting in operational cost savings.  SIGBA® is relatively inexpensive to implement, low risk, and easy to learn for technologist and patients. Because SIGBA® is skill based, once your technologists learn the technique they can be uses again and again without additional costs to you.

What is the Financial Impact Of Cancelled MRI exams

Cancelled MRI exams has a huge impact on imaging departments, patient care and overall healthcare costs.6,8,9 It affects your insurance reimbursements, and operating costs. 5,8,9 Cancelled MRI exams have a financial impact on imaging centers, patients and contribute to the increases in healthcare costs.4-6  In 2011, there was a 2.3% worldwide cancellation rate resulting in a 1.35 billion dollar loss in revenue.7

Lower Operational Costs

Reducing cancelled MRI exams will lower your operational costs. Incomplete and cancelled exams increases your operational costs, lowers your per exam profits, and ultimately causes higher healthcare costs.8,6  Konxja ® will help you, reduce cancelled exams, decreasing your cost per exam, and increasing your overall profits.

Higher Reimbursements

The financial impact of cancelled MRI exams has amplified due to drastically reduced insurance reimbursements throughout the years, and the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in which patient satisfaction scores influences Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.  Additionally the “Volume to Value” movement in radiology makes efficiency and higher exam completion rates imperative.

Konxja ® Consulting will help you reduce cancelled MRI exams saving you money while providing patients with a unique patient centered experience. An experience which may increase your patient’s sense of satisfaction and create a loyal customer that returns to you for all of their imaging needs.

Frequently Asked

Will the implementation of SIGBA® techniques affect workflow?

Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit, enim eiusmod hiSIGBA® will not affect workflow. It is easy to learn for technologists and patients taking only minutes to perform. These few extra minutes creates a more relaxed patient reducing motion, disruptions and repeat exams due to cancellations. With the radiology movement from volume to value, decreasing repeat exams while increasing patient satisfaction is imperative. In short, a few additional minutes of care will save you time and money in the long run. Patients who purchase a MRI Relaxation Kit prepares prior to their exam. gh life accusamus terry richardson ad squid. 3 wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla assumenda shoreditch et. Nihil anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably have not heard of them accusamus labore sustainable VHS.

What makes SIGBA® different from others MRI interventions?

Unlike other interventions for MRI anxiety, SIGBA® is simple, skill based, low tech, cost efficient, low risk and centered on the patient’s unique needs.  SIGBA® addresses patient’s physical and psychological needs. Other MRI interventions can be complicated, time consuming, or requiring high priced equipment. SIGBA® has been clinically shown to reduce MRI anxiety by 77% in a safe cost effective way giving technologists and patients the tools needed to successfully complete their MRI exam. More importantly, unlike other interventions these techniques and products can be incorporated into any outpatient MRI practice in the world.

How else can SIGBA® be used?

Anim pariaAlthough SIGBA® was created to help claustrophobic MRI patients with anxiety; it may have other medical applications. Examples include preparation for invasive or noninvasive medical procedures such as mammography, preoperative suites. In a nutshell, SIGBA® may help reduce situational anxiety and promote relaxation.tur cliche reprehenderit, enim eiusmod high life accusamus terry richardson ad squid. 3 wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla assumenda shoreditch et. Nihil anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably have not heard of them accusamus labore sustainable VHS.

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