For teleradiology operators
Twelve minutes of a fifty-eight minute study is reporting.
The rest is worklist allocation, hunting for the referral, searching for priors, dispatching the report and reconciling the service level afterwards. Your radiologists are paid for the twelve minutes and spend their day on the other forty-six.
The per-study time anatomy
Seven phases. Two of them are clinical.
These are our own measured averages across teleradiology estates. Yours will differ — which is the entire point of measuring before we build anything.
| Phase | Minutes | Who does it | Recoverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worklist allocation | 15 | Admin or radiologist | Yes |
| Hunting for the referral | 11 | Radiologist | Yes |
| Searching for priors | 8 | Radiologist | Yes |
| The diagnostic read | 12 | Radiologist | Human task |
| Sign-off review | 2 | Radiologist | Human task |
| Report dispatch | 7 | Admin | Yes |
| Service level audit | 3 | Manager | Yes |
| Total | 58 | 44 recoverable |
You cannot hire your way out of an administrative problem. You can only stop asking radiologists to do administration.
Measure first
Twelve weeks, read-only, inside your own estate
We do not ask you to accept our averages. We instrument your workflow and give you a defensible recoverable-capacity number built from your own data.
Nothing is touched
Read-only for the full twelve weeks. No changes to any system, no configuration, no risk to live reporting. The governance conversation is short because there is nothing to govern.
Your numbers, not ours
Where your minutes actually go, phase by phase, across your own study mix. Nothing to dispute afterwards because it is your data.
Credited in full
If you proceed to a build, the pilot fee comes off the price. If you do not, you keep the analysis.
And if the measurement says something else, we will tell you. If the time is not going where we expect, we will say so rather than proposing a build that will not move your numbers.
Then remove it
One component per phase
Each one removes a specific line from the table above. You do not have to take all of them — most operators start with the two that recover the most time.
Worklist and clinical context
Monitors the worklist around the clock and allocates unread studies by subspecialty and urgency. Retrieves the referral letter and clinical notes before the radiologist opens the study.
Recovers 26 minutes per study.
Prior reports and comparison imaging
Harvests priors across multiple imaging archives rather than one at a time. This is the component with a patient-safety argument attached — a missing prior is a clinical risk, not an inconvenience.
Recovers 8 minutes, and cuts the missed-prior rate substantially.
Report delivery
Delivers the completed report to the referrer within a minute of sign-off, by whichever route that referrer uses. Urgent findings escalate immediately rather than waiting for the next dispatch round.
Recovers 7 minutes per study.
Service level and quality audit
Real-time performance by subspecialty, inspection-ready, instead of a retrospective spreadsheet somebody rebuilds each month.
Recovers 3 minutes, and removes a monthly job entirely.
Also
Moving imaging between systems
Twenty years of DICOM and HL7 migration, including moves that run against a contract termination where the source archive is deleted at the end. Three things we hold to, learned the hard way.
Order matters
The record is created before the images arrive, never the reverse. Get it backwards and studies land with nothing to bind to.
We publish our ceiling
We know the throughput above which loss begins, and we run below it. A supplier claiming no limit has not measured.
Transit is not arrival
A transfer having started is not a study having landed. We reconcile at the destination and report what is short.
[Migration volumes and client name pending approval.]
Start with the measurement
Twelve weeks, read-only, credited against whatever comes next. You end up with a defensible analysis of your own operation whether you work with us afterwards or not.