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7 signs that diagnostic centers should invest in teleradiology

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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Benefits of Teleradiology

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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How Teleradiology is the best solution for health

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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What will be the future of teleradiology in India?

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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Start of Indian radiology and imaging service

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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Core values of 17 years- Teleradiology solutions

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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Learning and intelligence in radiology

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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Radiologist burnout and related issues

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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Visibility in radiology reporting is everything!

There is a great story in the Indian mythological tour de force the Mahabharata about Arjuna and Duryodhana, representing the forces of good and evil respectively, coming to visit their mentor Lord Krishna to seek his support for their respective armies during battle. When they arrive he is asleep on his bed. Duryodhana who arrives

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Teleradiology and Climate Change

A trip of mine to Paris three years ago was bizarrely disrupted by the river Seine flooding its banks. This week once again the Seine is threatening to flood and the mayor of Paris is quoted as saying that this is “clearly a question of the town adapting to climate change” Along with other recent

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