Online : India : Bangalore : Express HealthCare Management : ClinicalDiagnostic : Teleradiology Solutions: Taking expertise to hospitals in US

Teleradiology Solutions, Inc, Bangalore, a nascent teleradiology consultations provider to hospitals in the US, which started just about two years ago, has now become a leader in the imaging markets. While the US is facing a shortage of radiologists, where 20 per cent of the vacancies remain unfilled, workload on radiologists has increased and staffing has been inadequate. Seeing the increasing potential for radiology solutions in the US with inadequate number of radiologists and inadequate training programme to meet the demands of the growing aged population, Teleradiology Solutions was set up in India mainly to provide night shift support to the hospitals in US in a much more productive way.

The service is based on the use of web-driven teleradiology systems. "We use broadband internet access with complete redundancy that ensures total uptime to transfer image data from the hospital server," explains Dr Arjun Kalyanpur, CEO and chief radiologist, Teleradiology Solutions.

The company provides teleradiology based services over the internet like Nighthawk coverage, where it provides on-call preliminary or final interpretation by board certified radiologists of all emergently performed non invasive imaging studies including Computed Tomography, MRI, ultrasound, X Ray, nuclear medicine studies and conventional plain films (digital format) with a turnaround time of under 30 minutes for a transcribed faxed report. "Here a single radiologist is able to support multiple hospitals," adds Dr Kalyanpur.

 

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