Medical Imaging and Physician Burnout: Can More Efficient Workflow Solve it?.

How Can You Improve Your Medical Imaging Process?

Despite the many challenges that may come up in a typical hospital or clinic setup, the primary end-goal is to provide quality patient care. The goal is to be patient-focused, which helps guide workflow processes, including those in the medical imaging arena.

As you strive to provide quality patient care there are questions you can ask to measure the effectiveness of your workflow. Do your doctors spend enough time with their patients, either in clinic visits or while they’re in the hospital? Do they have to sit down for an hour to input data into the electronic medical records when they only spent 20 minutes with a patient? Are they accessing patients’ medical images on a disc that only works on a specific type of viewer? These are all questions that too many physicians can answer “yes” to.

It’s also important to note that the Physicians Foundation found recently that 49 percent of doctor’s experience burnout. More startling is that 80 percent say they are at capacity or overextended, which is what leads to burnout. Anything that can help streamline workflow processes and help them free up time for themselves and for patient care is important.

We know that managing medical imaging has its challenges in today’s digital environment. Despite all the advances in technology, managing images continues to be a complex and cumbersome process. However, cloud computing is offering a solution that works for managing medical images that can impact all the other problems addressed above.

It’s really all about access when it comes to managing medical images in the cloud. Instead of hitting the wall of proprietary technology, cloud-based image management solutions bypass all barriers. When your images are managed in the cloud, they can be made available to you on your mobile devices, which means instead of digging through thousands of discs that store medical images, a simple query will pull up the exam, which you can look over as you are walking to see your patient, or while you’re with your patient. No proprietary viewing station is required.

Cloud computing can also address cost. At OffSite Image Management, Inc., we guarantee cost-savings. Our solutions are helping to battle physician burnout and address the patient-centered focus that so many providers are striving to achieve today. Contact us now and let’s go over the specifics.