Globally, the healthcare sector has undergone a paradigm shift. Healthcare isn’t merely about treating people anymore. While the fundamentals will remain the same, the healthcare sector has become a competitive playground with patients at its helm. Hence, whether established or a novice, every healthcare player has to walk the extra mile to serve their patients better, quicker, and at the same time, stay cost-effective.
Accordingly, the healthcare sector has witnessed several innovations. Teleradiology solutions are among the most significant ones. Teleradiology helps transmit electronically digitized medical patient images. It has several benefits that make it a revolution in radiology and healthcare in its entirety. Let’s look at a few vital ones.
· Quicker Diagnosis
Earlier, viewing medical images used to take time. But teleradiology has expedited the process. It offers an almost instant view of medical imaging results. Thus, patients and doctors don’t have to wait hours to seek the images. The doctors can quickly fetch the images, see them and conduct a quicker diagnosis. Hospitals using teleradiology solutions thus score more points when it comes to improving patient service!
· Enhanced Consultation
Teleradiology has yet another benefit – improved consultation. In the olden days, doctors had no option but to transfer a patient to another doctor if they did not have a treatment or if the patient had to be sent for an advanced diagnosis. This used to cost the patient valuable resources. But teleradiology eliminates the need for the patient’s physical transfer, at least in the consulting stage. The images can be effortlessly transferred to another doctor, and specialized medical advice can be sought remotely.
· Improved Rural Healthcare
This is in line with the above point. Many patients across rural setups do not have access to comprehensive healthcare. They have to depend on urban hospitals for diagnosis and treatment. Again, this calls for traveling to a particular city and seeking treatment.
But hospitals using teleradiology can broaden their scope of service to rural areas. Hospitals in rural areas can easily send their patient images to teleradiology solution providers to receive prompt and specialized image interpretation.
· Round-the-Clock Availability
Teleradiology can help healthcare organizations gain 24/7 access to patients’ medical images. Radiologists or doctors can access images on the cloud and relay them without requiring them to wait for the department to open the next day. In the age where after-hours service matters much, teleradiology can help revolutionize patient service.
· Dealing with Radiologist Scarcity
Many healthcare organizations are currently experiencing a dearth of radiologists. This scarcity is hurting their endeavors to provide excellent patient service. But teleradiology proves a valuable resource here as well. It helps healthcare providers do more with fewer people onboard. They don’t have to hire radiologists onsite to view and interpret images. It can help hospitals save a lot of time and operate seamlessly.
Choose Medsynaptic if you’ve been looking for next-gen and performant teleradiology solutions. We provide multisite teleradiology solutions that have features like,
· Upload/ DICOM send images to our teleradiology server or buy a separate one
· Upload both DICOM and Non-DICOM images
· Radiologists can process images with W/L, Zoom, Pan, measurements, annotations, etc. on the server
· Users can create reports from the server from templates
· Authorized users can see images and patient worklists per user login
· The teleradiology solution doesn’t require installing separate software
Vesta Teleradiology is a complete end-to-end radiology services and teleradiology solutions which help you make better decisions for the health of your patients and practice.
We integrate seamlessly with your technology and provide coverage 24x7x365.
