Accuray Incorporated now provides expert resources for on-call treatment planning. This service gives you access to experienced medical physicists trained on the CyberKnife® System, with dedicated Accuray resources to provide top-notch customer service. The Accuray Treatment Planning Service team works together with your on-site staff to create patient treatment plans that meet the needs of your facility.

The Treatment Planning Service provides the following benefits:

Quality

• Reduce the learning curve for new CyberKnife physics staff
• Leverage experienced Medical Physicists with Accuray resources

Efficiency

• Manage temporary personnel shortages
• Fill personnel gaps as volume fluctuates

Utilization

• Rapidly meet increased treatment demand 
• Treat more patients

Investment Protection 

• Reduce personnel and financial risk
• Accuray support

New Sites, Existing Sites, and Future Sites
The Accuray Treatment Planning Service is designed around getting new sites up and running more quickly, helping existing sites maximize utilization and also providing all sites protective strategies against fluctuations in patient volumes and staffing changes.

For new sites, there is typically a learning curve and a progression over time from simple to more complex cases, a natural limiting factor in maximizing utilization. By providing access to experienced CyberKnife physicists, barriers to maximal utilization are removed. For existing sites, unforeseen fluctuations in staffing or patient volumes can be more effectively managed with the support of the Accuray Treatment Planning Service which can provide supplemental resource fall-back protection. Conveniently available expert advice will also allow your staff the opportunity to increase their knowledge skill-sets more quickly than ever before. By maximizing utilization, bringing staff up to speed more quickly, and being able to treat more target indications, your investment protection is ensured. As you plan and build for future growth, you can do so with confidence, knowing that you have expert consulting resources available through the Accuray Treatment Planning Service.

Background
The adoption of state of the art treatment solutions like the CyberKnife System has clearly demonstrated the safety and efficacy of targeted radiosurgery. However, many sites experience challenges in staffing due to the demand for medical physicists to support these advanced systems. In particular, medical physicists are often staffed at minimum levels and stretched to meet the daily demands required for maintaining the highest in quality standards. As future growth plans are considered, an increase in patient volume often challenges current resources, especially with treatment planning.

Medical professionals actively engaged in treatment planning are increasingly involved across a variety of procedures, systems, QA and additional responsibilities. These realities cumulatively add to the risk profile for many of the clinics, hospitals, and cancer centers. A seamless, easy to use, solution for supplementary planning support is needed to help these groups manage increased patient volumes, staff shortages, and other off-line activities. As administrators and leaders formulate future growth plans, they will need to consider staffing models that meet increases in patient volumes without incurring fixed overhead expenses.

Solution
The Accuray Treatment Planning Service is designed to meet these challenges in a cost effective way. We have been building the infrastructure to provide a much needed solution by supplying secure web based tools and hi-speed data networks, to allow access to CyberKnife trained experts. Our unique capabilities in remote treatment planning allow us to offer tailor-made solutions to help off-load treatment planning burden as needed by your site.

Contact
John Liebig
Director, Treatment Planning Service
jliebig@accuray.com
+1.408.789.4412

Colin Sims
Director, Advanced Treatment Planning
csims@accuray.com
+1.408.789.4319