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Who You Gonna Call? Automatically Connecting Radiologists to the Right Clinician

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Contacting clinicians to convey critical results is a critical part of radiology workflow, but many obstacles prevent easy and timely communication. Integration of radiology applications and workflow with an EHR-based patient coverage database demonstrated subjective and objective improvement in radiologist workflow and satisfaction.

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Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges and thanks Erik G. Van Eaton, M.D., FACS (Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA), Martin Gunn, M.B., Ch.B. (University of Washington), and David Stone (TransformativeMed, Inc.) for their help in designing this trial and offering comments on this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Radiology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW CG201, Washington, DC, 20007, USA

    Ross Filice

  2. National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, MedStar Institute for Innovation, Washington,, DC, USA

    Ross Filice

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Filice, R. Who You Gonna Call? Automatically Connecting Radiologists to the Right Clinician. J Digit Imaging 30, 595–601 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-017-9962-9

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