Docpanel And Healthcare Tech Solutions Collaborate To Enhance Radiology Workflow

Converting SCO to BTO can be used for prefetching, importing external studies, and image sharing.

Fremont, CA: Radiology workflow has become increasingly sophisticated as demand for medical imaging has expanded considerably over the past few decades. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic adding to the stress, radiology departments are adopting new and inventive methods of working to improve operational efficiency, patient and employee experience, and, ultimately, outcomes.

The concept that the radiology process is a complicated network of distinct operations is arguably the most difficult hurdle to optimize.

Healthcare Tech Solutions, the creators of DICOMSync, has partnered with DocPanel, a global innovator in delivering sub-specialized radiology coverage, to simplify breast imaging operations for imaging providers. Every stage of the imaging process is vulnerable to delays, unpredictability, and communication gaps, all of which produce waste and can have a poor downstream influence on patient care.

"DocPanel and Healthcare Tech Solutions make a powerful team. Our mission to improve patient care united when our teams came together to help a major client implement and deploy a solution that converts SCO to BTO images in under 24 hours," says Mony Weschler, Chief Operating Officer at DocPanel. "This new capability is transforming care by eliminating delays and ensuring subspecialized interpretations for the best possible patient outcomes."

The collaboration tackles the issue that facilities encounter when showing Legacy Hologic tomosynthesis studies in their PACS. Because most PACS cannot show the proprietary multi-slice Secondary Capture Object (SCO) format, it is best to convert the SCO data to the sector standard Breast Tomosynthesis Object format (BTO). DocPanel and HCTS have collaborated to offer breast imaging facilities a dependable option for converting proprietary data while ensuring subspecialty interpretations via fellowship-trained Breast Radiologists.

"If you were an early adopter of Hologic Tomosynthesis for breast imaging, then you likely have some data stored in Hologic's proprietary SCO format in your PACS or VNA. SCO to BTO can be used to convert a full archive or in an on-demand model in real-time, eliminating the need for expensive workstations," says Keith Eklund, VP of Sales & Services at Healthcare Tech Solutions. "Clients sending studies to DocPanel are not only ensuring subspecialized interpretations, but can also take advantage of workflow optimization that is key to the success of an imaging business."

Converting SCO to BTO can be used for prefetching, importing external studies, and image sharing.