Healthcare providers looking for efficiencies are tasked with putting everything under the microscope, including medical imaging processes. This involves analyzing how patient care can be better managed through strong imaging workflows and establishing a “volume-to-value” transition by using the best tools, the right cloud-based providers and establishing more accountability along the way.
When it comes to medical imaging and managing a deep case load, speed is important, but quickly creating diagnostic reports is not always helping your overall strategy to improve value. The push to make haste can negatively impact accountability and lead to straying from what medical imaging is meant to do – to diagnose or rule out disease or injury.
There can be a happy medium between speed and value, but it has to involve prioritizing technology that improves visibility into processing the case load, addressing accountability and aligning workflow for maximum results.
Taking a Cloud-Based Approach
Evolving imaging technology has improved the ability to treat patients, but it’s also made managing images more complex. For example, some providers find it difficult to manage DICOM and non-DICOM images throughout the life of the images. Adopting cloud-based technology has helped these providers find the sweet spot in managing both.
When you’re partnered with the right cloud vendor of imaging solutions, you’re able to address your short-term needs as well as develop a more well-rounded long-term strategy that focuses on patient care (value).
Better Platforms
One of the key advantages to utilizing cloud-based imaging solutions is the access to updates, which means you’re not using outdated platforms; once something new is developed, your vendor should provide you with the automatic updates. Having this access to the latest technology is a major step in improving value.
Teleradiology is a great example of where strides are being made toward improvements in patient care, which also includes more visibility into how images are being processed/managed/analyzed.
OffSite Image Management has developed a cloud-based platform called TeleRad360, which empowers radiologists, imaging facilities, urgent care centers and hospitals with cutting-edge capabilities for efficient and accountable patient care. Voice recognition and self-editing tools give radiologists what they need to edit their reports, and they can also use data analytics within our TeleRad platform to strategically analyze and plan.
Getting reports fast is important, but you also want them to be accurate, which is an important component of our reporting tools. The reports can go directly into the electronic medical record or to any destination via HL7. If you’re looking for exam accountability and improving your value, contact us and let’s talk about how we will build a custom image management approach to address your needs.
