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Healthcare progress leads to workflow challenges

Nicola Mawson
By Nicola Mawson, Contributing journalist
Johannesburg, 22 Nov 2006

progress leads to workflow challenges

Revolutionary progress in computed tomography has opened the door to new and advanced cardiovascular applications, which leads to workflow challenges, reports PR News Wire.

As this new technology makes its way into clinical practice, radiologists and cardiologists are encountering new challenges related to workflow and post-processing of complex sets, along with core competency issues.

Q3D, a division of Quantum Radiology, is a centralised 3D Lab based in Atlanta that enables multislice CT centres to outsource their post-processing requirements for improved efficiency, consistency and profitability.

Workflow becomes key

A number of trends will have an impact in how firms operate over the next couple of years, one of which being a direct outgrowth of firms going paperless, focusing on document management, and studying outsourcing, reports WebCPA.

Drivers behind the automation of workflow include increased efficiency and better control of the work products - and the driving forces are technological advances.

However, automating workflow shouldn't simply be viewed as a technological overlay on the process and procedures of the firm, but as much more than that.

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