While on the subject of quality assurance and peer review, one observation I have is that interobserver variability is a real thing that critically affects the practice of radiology. Nowhere is this more impactful than in peer review and QA. While teleradiology practices have raised the bar across the radiology community given the higher degree […]
Teleradiology enables better physician collaboration, communication and consultation – in turn leading to better patient care. Appropriate medical treatment cannot be provided without accurate diagnosis, and teleradiology allows for an accurate diagnosis to be delivered to each and every citizen without them having to travel hundreds of miles in its quest
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In today’s competitive healthcare environment, running a diagnostic imaging center is not easy. Apart from the high equipment cost at startup, operational and ongoing financial challenges abound. A technology innovation that can assist owners of diagnostic centers in optimizing their center’s performance is teleradiology. This article lists the typical scenarios in which owners of diagnostic
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Telemedicine is the application of information technology and telecommunications networks for the purpose of medical diagnosis and therapy from remote locations. A host of recent technology innovations have made it possible for telemedicine to expand its reach across every medical speciality– its usage in radiology is called “Teleradiology.” Radiology incorporates the diverse methods used in medical science
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Teleradiology– is best defined as the process by which images are transferred to distant locations for the purpose of interpretation and diagnosis. It enables transfer of images such as CT, MRI, X-rays etc from locations with radiologist scarcity to other locations where radiologists are available for real time interpretation. This also allows the scans to
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We are facing a real shortage of radiologists in India and hence, there lies the necessity to spread the utilization of teleradiology across the country to allow for early diagnosis, especially in the emergency setting. Outsourced teleradiology is a growing trend, but there needs to be a constant focus on quality and technological innovation. The recent exciting advancements
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The standard of radiology in India has significantly improved since the time when I was a medical student. Primarily the access to high end imaging technology has seen rapid development in the past two decades. While in the past, imaging in India was focused on conventional radiology and ultrasound, today it has evolved into sophisticated and
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We recently celebrated our 17th anniversary at TRS. When asked to say a few words I reflected over the things that had remained constant since the beginning and what had changed. In terms of the aspects of our organizational culture that I feel are a constant and have remained so since the beginning of TRS, these
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I recently attended an interesting lecture hosted by the New India Foundation on the subject of How to Fix Primary Education in India, by an eminent speaker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof Esther Duflo, in which she elegantly described, using randomized controlled trial data generated by her organization’s field research, what is erring
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An awful lot is being said today about radiologist burnout. Hardly a week passes by without a dire article on the subject on the front page of a radiology journal. Surveys indicate that the majority of radiologists are burned out, and some of these even delve into associated pathologies such as substance abuse to indicate
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