By using the same workstation, a compatible PACS user interface and optimizing human performance engineering – radiologists become more efficient.
With mammography, time is a critical commodity. Reader fatigue, reduced efficiency and delays in diagnosing breast disease and other abnormalities visible on medical images can slow workflow between breast and non-breast studies, minimize radiologist productivity and delay patient notifications. The result can be less efficient radiologists and imaging centers, and a weaker bottom line at hospitals, imaging centers, women’s health clinics and other health facilities
“When we’re reading, sometimes we want to see previous reports, and if you want to do that in a different software you have to go over to the PACS and pull up the case, and open it there and go back and forth, which slows me down,” said Dr. Lisa Watanabe, CMO of CureMetrix and Associate Professor in Clinical Radiology at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine. “Being able to have everything integrated with NovaMG-Pro is really advantageous. It definitely makes me more efficient.”
