Our centers operate on a digital platform, allowing the business to run more productively with minimal time for information delivery. On arrival at the clinic, patients are first registered and then accompanied to the appropriate rooms for their examinations. Once the procedures are completed, the images which are stored in the Computed Radiography (CR) workstation are transferred to the achiever and are immediately accessible to the radiologists via the Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS).

For urgent cases where the referring physicians require hard copies of films to be brought back to their clinics, patients are able to leave our clinics immediately with the wet films and the reports are subsequently faxed to the doctors. Otherwise, the reports are matched with the films and given to the patients who return to collect them within an hour. Depending upon the referring physicians’ instructions, the results may be dispatched or posted to them. The reports of the examinations are stored in and retrievable from our computer system, normally for up to three years. They are printed in duplicate and given to the referring physicians.

Teleradiology is the electronic transmission of radiological images from one location to another for the purposes of interpretation and/or consultation. The process involves the transmission of medical images digitally over a secure network to a remote facility where they are viewed using a teleradiology application.

Teleradiology may allow even more timely interpretation of radiology images and give greater access to secondary consultations and to improved continuing education. Users in different locations may simultaneously view images. Appropriately utilized, teleradiology can improve access to quality radiological interpretations and thus significantly improve patient care.