Radiologists are responsible for providing prompt emergency imaging services 24/7. With the introduction of multidetector CT scanners, allowing rapid imaging of large areas of the patient, emergency radiology volumes have increased exponentially. The effective use of CT has been shown to decrease hospital admissions by 28 percent. It has changed the surgical management of ER patients by 40 percent, so that, from an outcomes perspective, the effective deployment of CT appears to be substantiated.

Simultaneous with an increase in after-hours exams, the workload per radiologist during daytime hours has also increased, not so much due to total imaging volume, but primarily because of workforce shortages. Over the past three years, many radiology groups covering small and even mid-size hospitals have found it difficult to provide effective 24-hour coverage.

It has been argued that the use of global outsourcing for night-time emergency imaging studies is cost-efficient and improves patient care. Because the nighthawks collect imaging exams from multiple hospitals, each radiologist can be fully occupied during the nightshift, as it were. And because the nightshift is really the dayshift with the 12-hour time difference between Asia and the United States, the radiologists are not subject to fatigue resulting from long on-call hours or upsetting their diurnal biologic clocks. And finally, accuracy of image interpretation is correlated, up to a point, with the volume of cases, so these nighthawks are able to keep a keen eye with a large volume of emergency CT studies to review.

We provide teleradiology-based services such as diagnostic interpretation of all emergently and non-emergently performed non-invasive imaging studies, including computed tomography, MRI, ultrasound, X ray, nuclear medicine studies and conventional plain films (digital format).
These services are provided with a turnaround time of less than 30 minutes in the emergency setting. We are in constant verbal communication with our client hospitals and are highly accessible to all our referring physicians/hospitals at all times.

We believe that teleradiology is primarily a medical practice, and then a business.

The Indian health imaging market is expected to double from the existing $350 million in the next five years, according to estimates by London-based market intelligence firm Tekplus.

In 2009, the imaging modalities of X-ray, ultrasound, CT, and MRI are collectively estimated to account for 68.6 per cent of the health imaging market, according to the firm's research report 'Indian Health Imaging Market'.

According to one estimate, approximately 50 per cent of the 6,000-odd hospitals in the United States still do not have the technology for teleradiology, and this therefore represents the future potential market size in the US alone.

Benefits

- Because of teleradiology, patients can be diagnosed and effectively treated at any time of the day or night, with a diagnosis provided from across the globe within 30 minutes. It is cost-effective to the hospital, as the need to recruit night shift personnel is minimised.

- The quality of care delivered by a wide awake, alert physician working a day shift in India is far superior to that provided by a US-based radiologist who is up all night.

- Sub-speciality opinions delivered to locations where the expertise is otherwise unavailable is an added benefit.

- Due to the development of new and faster imaging modalities, an ageing population and increase in the clinical applications for imaging, more and more radiologic imaging scans are today being performed in the US, requiring more radiologic expertise.

- Training programs in the US have not kept pace with these changes. The numbers of training positions have remained relatively constant while the number of scans has exponentially increased. We stepped in to fill that void.? We are extending our reach into other markets such as the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Europe now where we see great demand for teleradiology.

- Teleradiology will help the US extend its high quality health care globally. Clinical medicine and research as practised in the US has a cutting-edge over other countries.

- What teleradiology will do for the US is allow it to impart its world-class knowledge of medicine to doctors from around the world, who will then bring that expertise back to their countries. This will be America's greatest gift to the world.

Teleradiology is the way of the future. It increases the reach of the physician who can utilise his skills to the maximum number of patients rather than being confined by geography. The importance of teleradiology is that patients can be effectively diagnosed and treated at any time of the day or night, with a diagnosis provided within minutes.
The gratifying thing in this work is the immediacy of it. Also one doctor can cover multiple hospitals simultaneously making it a more efficient process.
While in the US setting, teleradiology is a highly affordable solution to staffing issues, in India, it is sometimes seen as a disadvantage. However, the system more than pays for itself over a short period of time.

Additionally, the costs of teleradiology are continuously diminishing, particularly given the fall in broadband costs worldwide. Efficient Web-based teleradiology systems allow for rapid and economical distribution of radiologic images to radiologists located anywhere within a global office.

Since the technology in teleradiology is digital and filmless, there can a with tieups with hospitals like Max Healthcare and other renowned hospitals with at par infrastructure and infrastructure as US healthcare industry. We are able to provide best services in radiology.

We have a group of specialist radiologist and telemedicine experts who can provide best services making the healthcare affordable and low cost without compromising on quality.