2nd September 2009
Medica expands teleradiology north of the border
Medica, the UK’s largest teleradiology company, has expanded its services in Scotland as healthcare providers seek to reduce the effects of the national shortage of radiologists.
Following the recent renewal of its contract with NHS Ayrshire & Arran, it has signed further contracts for its On Demand service with NHS Western Isles and NHS Grampian.
The move means that Medica is now helping to provide rapid radiology reporting services to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, one of Scotland’s leading hospitals, as well as some of the most remote islands in the UK.
The Western Isles is an archipelago of 11 populated islands located 40 miles off the north west coast of Scotland. NHS Western Isles has three hospitals including the Western Isles Hospital (a rural general hospital located in Stornoway) and the Uist & Barra Hospital on the island of Benbecula.
“This is remote reporting in the truest sense of the word and we are providing the service on an as-required basis so it is very cost-effective”, said Medica CEO Simon Rasalingham.
He added that research shows that typically health care organisations have plain film reporting backlogs of over 40% of their total reporting workload.
- Dayhawk, Medica’s ultra-fast daytime remote reporting service, was formally launched in June at UKRC.
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