DOTmed February 25, 2020
Dr. Eric Brian Friedberg and his colleagues in ACR’s Commission on General, Small, Emergency and/or Rural Practices spend a lot of time thinking about ways to improve access to imaging in underserved regions. Teleradiology holds a lot of potential for that, so they asked the question: to what extent is it actually being used?
To get their answer they sent a survey to ACR members and received almost 1,000 responses. Over 85 percent of the radiologists surveyed, (and these were all radiologists who did not identify primarily as “teleradiologists”) had some experience over the last decade with practicing teleradiology. HealthCare Business News spoke to Friedberg, who is the vice chair of the commission, about what those findings tell us about...