The medical field is full of variables, with clinicians constantly adjusting and adapting to deliver the best patient care. While we can never completely eliminate outliers and variations from our workflow, any kind of standardization can deliver benefits, including a better patient experience and optimized equipment use. With Imaging Insights from GE Healthcare, we can now achieve improved process, workflow and patient care in medical imaging.

Imaging Insights, an Edison application, provides actionable insights across modalities (MR, CT, X-ray, Ultrasound, etc.)* and multiple vendors by aggregating data from machines and the Radiology Information System (RIS).

Improve Workflow

Imaging Insights can provide a detailed view into process improvement opportunities to enhance staff training and harmonization efforts. It achieves this impact through machine-to-machine comparisons, down-to-the-minute appointment trending, and analyzing technologist staffing dynamics. Not only does Imaging Insights help invigorate teams to align around common goals, it also identifies areas of improvement, what technologists see on a day-to-day basis, and how data can support constructive, collaborative decision-making. As a result, we see improved staff satisfaction and performance.

Reduce Backlog

The key to reducing longer-than-expected exam durations that lead to patient backlog is to find the root cause from protocol-level detail. With data gathered from Imaging Insights, organizations can analyze exam durations as well as machine usage and patient time allotments. Going a step further, simulating protocol times based on past series performed can tighten exams times even more. This results in scheduling adjustments that decrease backlog, help improve clinical consistency, and improve patient and staff experience.

Optimize Equipment Use

When purchasing imaging equipment, decision makers want to ensure the equipment will deliver a clear return on investment. Imaging Insights can analyze clinical trends, patient demand, and examination mix to know what equipment is most suitable based on practice data. Likewise, it can lead to better examination allocation to leverage specific technology, further improving efficiency.  So, it not only helps in making purchasing decisions by highlighting which technology can make the most impact, it also aids in improving staffing and organizational layouts.

Harness the Power of Data

The key of imaging analytics is to turn data into actionable insights, coupled with a human touch of expertise. Imaging Insights comes with a dedicated customer success manager who will frequently engage with you to help harness the power of the data. This expert will support your organization by understanding your organizational goals and governance mechanisms, recommending actions seen most effective from other sites, and determining next steps to achieve those goals.

Achieve Better Outcomes

Industries use the term “outcomes” frequently; however, we often overlook that outcomes are only achieved with insightful data and knowing what actions to take to achieve these outcomes. When it comes to achieving real, tangible results, one of our original customers at RadioMed in Wiesbaden, Germany—one of many success stories—said it best:

“We entered a partnership with GE healthcare in order to improve MR performance and what happened since then is well beyond my expectations… We achieved a significant production increase…of up to 30 percent, moving from 120 patients per week to around 170, so that had a significant impact on our productivity with a relatively low impact on our cost.”**

In the end, Imaging Insights can not only help improve the patient experience and drive better clinical consistency, it can also impact the bottom line of your organization. Optimized equipment usage can mean improved return on investment, better scheduling can mean more patients (or more satisfied patients), and improved staff performance can mean better outcomes—and even staff satisfaction.

When we harness the power of data intelligence, we can use it to combat the variables and outliers we know are always coming.

For more information on Imaging Insights, visit:

https://www.gehealthcare.com/products/Imaging-Insights

*Commercially available for MR, CT, Mammography and RIS systems

** Performance per customer may vary