Keeping Hospitals In The Flow With Intelligent Connections

With a growing aging population, radiologists retiring at record rates, and fewer physicians taking their place in the workforce, today’s radiologists face mounting workloads at the same time as they see increasingly complex cases. The demands of multiple, complex work streams from numerous systems, while ensuring precise diagnoses and maintaining accuracy—in quick turnarounds—add to the stress and burnout of radiologists worldwide.

For some time, AGFA HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging (EI) Platform has provided a solution for streamlining workflows, placing an emphasis on their “flow” and enhancing access, collaboration and improving the delivery of patient care. By reducing system inefficiencies, the platform helps radiologists manage increasing demands while reclaiming their work-life balance.

With poor work-life balance being a key factor contributing to retention or burnout, radiologists can benefit from a solution that provides greater flexibility, and AGFA HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging offers Cloud-Enabled Streaming architecture to help meet this need.

“We use smart, proprietary technology to reduce the amount of data that is going across the network while still giving full fidelity, diagnostic quality images. The architecture remains blazing-fast, even on unreliable networks,” Brown said.

“Our streaming solution allows radiologists to transition from one work environment to another while maintaining a consistent work experience, without performance degradation,” Omer said. “Now available in the cloud and via SaaS, the way we consume information, and how we deliver the product, can meet a greater number of customer needs. Cloud helps address the issues of accessibility, integration, speed and performance.”

“With the development and evolution of our solutions on that platform, I expect more and more health care institutions to want to move to the cloud,” Omer added.

Brown noted that Enterprise Imaging’s Workflow Orchestration capabilities improve productivity by directing work to those best able to complete it.

“We can bring the right exams to the right person, regardless of where they are—even across big geographic areas—so providers in different locations can connect and share the workload most efficiently,” he said.

Improvements in collaboration and communication can have a direct impact on patient care.

“A recent study demonstrated that when a patient is treated by a multidisciplinary team, they are much less likely to be readmitted, much more likely to have a timely exit from the health care system, and their own satisfaction—a contributor to the way hospitals are compensated in the U.S.—goes way up,” Brown said. “When we have tools that facilitate the whole team, we are connecting and enabling health care providers to be at the top of their license while providing care.”

Find out more about AGFA HealthCare Enterprise Imaging, Cloud and SaaS at agfahealthcare.com, or visit Booth #2565 during RSNA 2024 for a demonstration.