Heidelberg Medical Services Announces Launch Of Its Telecardiology Operations.
Heidelberg Medical Services announced the launch of its telecardiology services in the last week. Company is offering its service under the brand name Smart Telecardiology.
Online, July 2, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Heidelberg Medical Services have announced the launch of its Telecardiology Operations. Through this service, the company is offering medical image interpretation services exclusively in cardiac imaging domain. The company is offering its service through the brand name Smart Telecardiology.
Telecardiology has got wider and mulitple meanings. Every process in cardiology where patient is located in one location and physician or supporting medical staff are located in another locality can come under 'Telecardiology'. Through 'Telecardiology Service' Smart Telecardiology focus on radiology aspects in cardiology domain. Cardiac radiographic images are transmitted and interpreted from a different location.
Now a days teleradiology is an emerging medical technology and process since the number of radiologists is limiting and the number of images to be interpreted are non-limiting. It is assumed that the increase in number of graduated radiologists is 1.5 - 2% per year and increase in the number of total radiographic images is 6-12% per year world wide. The advancements in medical imaging technologies and communication technologies spurred the growth of this domain.
India is becoming one of the emerging hub for outsourcing radiology interpretation services. There are companies who are offering 24/7 services with interpretation mode ranging from urgent(within 30 mts) and non-urgent(within 24 hours). Also the service modes can be listed as Final Interpretaion, Preliminary Interpretation, Expert Opinion or Second Opinion. Turn Around Time(TAT) is an important taxonomy in this telecardiology field.
The company offering its services with Indian and European certified radiologists and cardiologists. Currently Smart Telecardiology offers services for modalities like echocardiogram, ecg, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI.
By opting telecardiology service, a hospital can have the privilege of reduced interpretation costs, increased availability of cardiologists and radiologists especially in emergency and after hour periods and also it helps the hospitals to efficiently utilise the available radiology resources.