[alex.nieto_484]

elsa you need to learn to use google and the search button

[kmh0667]

Just take your own call. Ha

[Unknown Member]

Elsa I can understand why your medical group is considering teleradiology as there is a severe shortage of radiologists across the country.  Can I assume your group was using a local radiologist or practice for your reads and that is no longer viable?  Unless you had a radiologist at your site every day you were in effect using teleradiology.  You just need to find another provider.  A google search will show you the telerad companies out there.  If your looking for a better price than local you will probably be disappointed.  If you have enough volume for a full FTE then you might want to see if you can recruit a full-time telerad.

[kmh0667]

In reality, most DR on site jobs sitting in your reading room all day are actually teleradiology. Most will not accept this, but it is actually reality in 2023. Doctors rarely visit reading rooms on site anymore. Even in academic centers, clinicians visits to reading rooms are way down in the era of PACs and reports out in less than a few hours.

[Unknown Member]

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In reality, most DR on site jobs sitting in your reading room all day are actually teleradiology. Most will not accept this, but it is actually reality in 2023. Doctors rarely visit reading rooms on site anymore. Even in academic centers, clinicians visits to reading rooms are way down in the era of PACs and reports out in less than a few hours.

You keep telling yourself that.

[ranweiss]

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In reality, most DR on site jobs sitting in your reading room all day are actually teleradiology. Most will not accept this, but it is actually reality in 2023. Doctors rarely visit reading rooms on site anymore. Even in academic centers, clinicians visits to reading rooms are way down in the era of PACs and reports out in less than a few hours.

You keep telling yourself that.

 
No…it’s actually the case. I would say easily 50% of the time i’m on site for no reason.

[Unknown Member]

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In reality, most DR on site jobs sitting in your reading room all day are actually teleradiology. Most will not accept this, but it is actually reality in 2023. Doctors rarely visit reading rooms on site anymore. Even in academic centers, clinicians visits to reading rooms are way down in the era of PACs and reports out in less than a few hours.

You keep telling yourself that.

No…it’s actually the case. I would say easily 50% of the time i’m on site for no reason.

Hospital should send cases to teleradiology company then. Hospital execs may even be a be able to make a few bucks if your payer mix is decent.

[andy.lippman_422]

I don’t know where you boomers are practicing that you actually see clinicians come to the reading room. (onsite level 1 trauma centers with actual trauma excluded possibly) Tumor boards are all remote now. Consults are by phone call or even better, EPIC message. It’s a massive waste of time for everyone to gather face to face for anything that can be done over video or phone. Clinicians are busy too.

[Drthekra]

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I don’t know where you boomers are practicing that you actually see clinicians come to the reading room. (onsite level 1 trauma centers with actual trauma excluded possibly) Tumor boards are all remote now. Consults are by phone call or even better, EPIC message. It’s a massive waste of time for everyone to gather face to face for anything that can be done over video or phone. Clinicians are busy too.

Happy to report I still see clinicians in our reading rooms daily. ER docs, trauma team as well as stroke team. I’ve become a better radiologist through my interactions with them and they get instant verbal reports from us. We practice in a major coastal city. Non-academic practice. 

[kmh0667]

Not sure that is the rule. I have never seen an ER doc in a reading room since maybe 2005, being totally serious. Stroke team I work with are radiologists, so they don’t count, neurorads obviously. The neurologists maybe once a month. Trauma, usually not, I am on site most of my career, about 20% now. Pretty big hospitals the whole time.
 
Don’t get me wrong, I like seeing people too and enjoy the interaction, but PACs/Powerscribe and one hour turnaround killed in person consults 95% of the time in my experience post about 2010.

[andy.lippman_422]

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Not sure that is the rule. I have never seen an ER doc in a reading room since maybe 2005, being totally serious. Stroke team I work with are radiologists, so they don’t count, neurorads obviously. The neurologists maybe once a month. Trauma, usually not, I am on site most of my career, about 20% now. Pretty big hospitals the whole time.

Don’t get me wrong, I like seeing people too and enjoy the interaction, but PACs/Powerscribe and one hour turnaround killed in person consults 95% of the time in my experience post about 2010.

 
This is my experience as well. I remember it occasionally in residency and fellowship, not much since then. I’ve been remote for several years now but was in academic on-site before that. Didn’t see a single doc in 2-3 years.

[afazio.uk_887]

There is an old hand surgeon who still comes by once in a while to look at a study.  
 
I enjoy going into the Dept still for the human contact and getting out of the house.  However, my home office setup is nice and I can comfortably spend a lot of time there and enjoy it.  So, probably will try out 100% remote eventually, currently probably 70-75% remote. 

[ranweiss]

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In reality, most DR on site jobs sitting in your reading room all day are actually teleradiology. Most will not accept this, but it is actually reality in 2023. Doctors rarely visit reading rooms on site anymore. Even in academic centers, clinicians visits to reading rooms are way down in the era of PACs and reports out in less than a few hours.

You keep telling yourself that.

No…it’s actually the case. I would say easily 50% of the time i’m on site for no reason.

Hospital should send cases to teleradiology company then. Hospital execs may even be a be able to make a few bucks if your payer mix is decent.

 
Thought you had a much better understanding of how radiology contracts and politics work.