Radiology reporting services is changing fast with improvement in technology. On-premise constraints at Hospitals and Healthcare Centers (due to low Radiologist : Patient ratio), is increasingly getting addressed by Teleradiology software led offsite reporting. This is especially helping remotely located Diagnostic Centers and District Hospitals in a vast country like India where 1.3 billion population is served by industry-estimated 10,000+ specialist Radiologists only!
Softmed Technologies LLP is a B2B SaaS Healthcare Technology platform operating in India’s radiology diagnostic testing market with a tested product and paying customers for over a decade. It enables its customers (Hospitals, Diagnostic Centers and small- to medium-sized health care facilities) to easily manage radiology workflows so that these can be accessed, viewed, and reported remotely by qualified specialist radiologists.
In the wake of Covid-19, patients were forced to delay or postpone their medical imaging tests, including regular health screenings and medical scan advice by specialist doctors. Softmed Technologies quickly adapted to this new challenge for providing faster and even better medical screening and diagnostic services, while reducing the risk of exposure to the pandemic. Since the first year of Covid in India (2020), we have expanded the capabilities of our cutting-edge TELERAD WEB PORTAL (TWP), to help even better reading of medical scanned images (USG, X-Ray, PET/CT Scan, MRIs) by our large team of radiologists while catering to a number of Healthcare Service Providers.
Softmedtech enables integration of medical imaging into radiology information systems. Our TELERAD WEB PORTAL (TWP) software platform connects and orchestrates medical imaging workflow between Hospitals/Diagnostic Centers and radiologists, providing state-of-the-art teleradiology reporting services and PACS solutions for our Healthcare customers. We adhere to strict standards for imaging modalities set by teleradiology Governing agencies like FDA, CDRH and CE. Every tele-radiologist in our pool is able to read images produced by each modality (from MRI to PET/CT to 3D mammography), accurately from their offsite locations, adhering to the standards.
The Softmedtech team includes subspecialists in teleradiology domain - ranging from Gynaecological Imaging and musculoskeletal MRI to nuclear medicine and more. This wider access to subspecializing radiologists is a big benefit, offering teleradiology services to extend expertise to more patients through referring clinicians and Healthcare providers.
Reporting for large-scale teleradiology needs and Adoption of EHR
In the traditional Healthcare system of developing nations, existing industry evidence suggests that the most frequently cited reasons for the low adoption rate of EHRs are – security, privacy and systems integration. These are further influenced by productivity and usability issues. Usability problems are considered a factor that can lead to challenges in implementation of an IT Healthcare system integrating Radiology Information System. Furthermore, many medical device incident reports can be attributed to user errors, implying that greater attention to human factors and usability during development of a medical devices and the relevant software could improve this situation.
Usability and user satisfaction are most important for structured reporting interfaces in virtual healthcare e.g. in telecardiology. It must be noted that many factors e.g. the mode of input, structured reporting etc. influence the usability of teleradiology reporting.
The enhancement of the usability of EHR-related software is therefore a critical success factor for providing better patient care in Radiology. Softmed Technology’s online TWP ensures user satisfaction, efficiency and general usability. This comes as a result of our single-minded focus - to innovate software solutions in the field of Medical Imaging & Telehealth indigenously.
At Softmed Technologies, our customers swear by the quality of our customized teleradiology reporting services and our commitment to continuous improvement to meet their day-to-day challenges.
Quality of patient care is at the core of our culture and we put a huge amount of time, energy and investment into the continuous improvement of our processes, systems and people.
TWP - our Easy Cloud based Teleradiology Service and Reporting Platform
We offer the TWP as an end to end cross platform, BYOD (Bring your own device), regulation compliant web based teleradiology reporting solution. It is our Remote Diagnostics Management Service – the only fully managed cloud based innovative Teleradiology service platform leveraging different forms of technologies (PACS, DICOM) to provide end-to-end solution for remote radiology reporting through which we make it possible for certified and experienced radiologists to extend their reach to otherwise unreachable patients and provide cost effective radio-diagnosis.
TWP can be implemented in wide area network as well as on the cloud server. TWP is backed up by our robust PACS Server – Telerad PACS Server on cloud network at the back end for smooth flow of all types of DICOM studies from different remote centres. The highly responsive web enabled user interface of TWP is very easy to understand and operate. The Radiologist at the reporting end and the user at the remote end are always at sync. The TWP comes with a cross platform web enabled DICOM viewer named TELERAD VIEWER which supports all the major tools for image analysis.
TWP can provide access to multiple user types simultaneously. Individual centres can be mapped to individual radiologists, and different such other combinations are possible. Mapping of centres to reporting clients and vice versa is a matter of configuration in TWP. Overall, TWP provides you – our Customers, with the flexibility of radiology reporting over WAN/Internet/IP-VPN.