Capabilities to address your biggest challenges
Integrating radiology workflows accelerates your path to precision diagnosis
Turn the most defining moments in healthcare into a clear care pathway with predictable outcomes for your patients.
The challenges facing imaging today call for a new approach
Arguably the biggest challenge to optimising radiology workflow is that it’s actually a complex web of separate workflows. Whether it’s getting a patient to show up on time for an imaging exam, acquiring the actual images, or getting the right clinical information in the hands of the referring physician, every step of the imaging process can have delays, variability and gaps in communication. All of that causes waste and can have a negative downstream impact on patient care.
An integrated approach benefits everyone in the imaging environment
Streamline workflow for staff
Smart systems and smart workflows for image acquisition promote efficiency and confidence
Support radiologists
Integrated, AI-driven platforms for workflow orchestration, data access, advanced analysis, reporting and clinical collaboration
Enable administrators
Tools and data insights that administrators and department heads need for continuous performance improvement
What can happen when you address radiology workflow challenges?
Improving and streamlining workflows is perhaps the most potent area for improvement in radiology today. Imagine how your radiology service would improve if you could see the following gains:
Decrease MR patient set-up to less than a minute in routine exams1
Use telepresence solutions to connect radiographers and clinical experts
Reduce CT turnaround time in the emergency department from order to exam start by 14%2
Organise, review, analyse and report your imaging studies using just one viewer
Improve report reading time for assessing tumor burden in cancer care by 60%3
Improve MR service efficiency by 10-20% to enable greater volume and access to care4
Why is it so important to take a systems approach to imaging?
The fact that health data is often distributed and sequestered across multiple applications and departments makes it hard to compile a comprehensive view of patients. By taking a systems view of imaging and treatment, you see the opportunities to connect and optimise workflows across the imaging enterprise – from patient management to image acquisition to image interpretation and through results communication and follow-up. This helps to improve outcomes for patients, the work experience for radiologists, radiographers and administrators, and the operational and clinical efficiency of the whole department and beyond.
Do these challenges sound familiar?
Operational inefficiencies weigh heavily on physicians and staff, who want the very best for patients but often find themselves scrambling for information and wasting precious time. That’s why you need solutions that optimise your radiology workflow from end to end.
12%
Demand for high value modalities is growing at 7–12%5
46%
46% of radiographers report moderate or severe levels of stress6
23%
Radiographers claim that 23% of their work is inefficient and could be automated6
97%
97% of radiology departments are unable to meet reporting requirements7
Together, we can address your greatest workflow challenges
Some of the biggest challenges for radiology leaders stem from managing complex, disconnected workflows that can negatively impact patient care, staff experience, outcomes and cost. What if you could start solving them today?
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The Philips Radiology Workflow Suite brings together powerful workflow solutions that improve experiences and outcomes across the imaging enterprise. We’re here to help, with smart systems and informatics solutions that use artificial intelligence (AI)* and automation to empower providers, patients and administrators. These solutions adapt to the context, integrate into the daily environment, turn data into actionable insights and orchestrate the delivery of the right care in the right sequence at the right time.
See how the Radiology Workflow Suite could help address some of your greatest challenges.
See how the Radiology Workflow Suite could help address some of your greatest challenges.
Additional resources
Leadership perspectives
Seven innovations in radiology workflow that are improving efficiency and quality of care
Radiology departments are embracing new and innovative ways of working to help improve operational efficiency, patient and staff experience and, ultimately, outcomes.
Eye in the sky
How virtual collaboration can improve access to care around the world
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that two-thirds of the world’s population lack access to basic medical imaging technology8, causing preventable and sometimes fatal delays in diagnosis and treatment. What if we could bridge those gaps in care – virtually?
Research perspectives
Radiology staff in focus: A radiology services impact and satisfaction survey of radiographers and imaging directors
What is the current state of staff experience among radiographers and administrators? We surveyed 250+ radiology staff working in the US, France, Germany and the UK to find out.
Case study
Realising the value of innovation at Poole Hospital, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
As England’s population has aged and more people live with comorbidities, the
number of MRI scans being conducted across the country has accelerated.
Results presented are for illustrative purposes only and are not predictive of actual results for your business.
1. Based on in-house testing. SmartWorkflow solutions in MR | Philips Healthcare
2. Since implementing and leveraging PerformanceBridge Practice to discover and address the issue, Boston Medical Center has been able to achieve a 14% reduction in CT turnaround time from order to exam start in its ED. For a department that performs 30-40 CT scans a day, that’s a significant workflow improvement.
3. Folio, L. et al. Initial Experience with Multi-Media and Quantitative Tumor Reporting Appears to Improve Oncologist Efficiency in Assessing Tumor Burden. RSNA 2015.
4. Based on a project conducted at Banner Health, AZ, U.S. Using PerformanceBridge Practice software analytics, we identified an opportunity to drive added MRI volume and revenue in a few ways, one of which was improving MR efficiency by 10-20% to hit a total of 80% efficiency.
5. Laing Buisson ‘Diagnostics market report’ p.199 ‘Table 7.3: PET CT Scans per 1,000 population, 2012-2018 (ranked by 2017)’
6. Radiology staff in focus: A radiology services impact and satisfaction survey of technologists and imaging directors. A research study conducted for Philips by The MarkeTech Group, 2019.
7. www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20180718-radiology-reporting-review-report-final-for-web.pdf
8. Morris MA, Saboury B. (2019) Access to Imaging Technology in Global Health. In: Mollura D., Culp M., Lungren M. (eds) Radiology in Global Health. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98485-8_3
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