Every healthcare department is able to gain an advantage by utilizing the right radiology technology. It’s part of what makes the radiology industry such a massive player in the healthcare product/technology market. Unfortunately, it can also provide added challenges if the technology is not the right fit for your systems. When new technology actually hampers your radiology workflow, its value is significantly reduced.
It’s critical that you choose solutions for your specific ways of approaching your daily tasks. This means you need to do your research and have a really good understanding of your current processes, what is going right and what could be approved upon, before making the decision on which technology is best for you.
Collaborating for the Greater Good
Don’t put your IT professionals in a bubble – make sure they’re working in tandem with you and your radiology project leaders as you work toward more optimal solutions. IT is often thought of as the gatekeeper of data, and when it comes to radiology, data is the prized component that everyone needs fast and easy, yet secure access to. That’s part of the reason IT needs to be involved from day one.
IT is not only responsible for launching new technology, they can assist you in determining what will be compatible with your current infrastructure and software.
Further collaboration techniques should involve education components, which are handed down from management to everyone who is responsible, even in small amounts, for processing images and other data into and out of your system.
Collaboration can also extend to cloud-based vendors of the applications you’re using to improve your radiology workflow. This usually involves a focus on setting up what’s expected of each entity and making sure communication is never lacking.
Cloud-Based Collaboration Tools
Rather than overtax your IT staff and use up valuable space in your facility, consider an outsourced model of improving radiology workflow. At OffSite Image Management, we offer many of our radiology solutions in the cloud, which means they don’t require any maintenance or management on your part – we do all the heavy lifting.
Furthermore, we specialize in radiology workflow solutions, which means we will assist you in storing, accessing and sharing your images and image data in a way that takes the bottlenecks out of the process, improves accountability issues and in most cases will lower your costs associated with image management.
One example of how we achieve this is through our cloud PACS, which includes many tools that can bring big-city healthcare solutions to the rural area. At OffSite, we’re making sure our customers, regardless of how small the facility or how far away from larger populations they might be, are getting top-notch radiology workflow technologies that speak directly to their needs.
Contact us and let’s talk about how we can assist you in improving patient care and take the snags out of your workflow.
