Last October, my team started working on a project to bridge the communication gaps between inpatient general medicine and radiology. Despite having done a full year of internship before starting residency, we quickly realized that as radiologists we knew very little about healthcare is delivered on the wards. Understanding how well the imaging workflow runs from ordering to reporting, identifying possible delays by systematically analyzing patient data seemed straightforward.
Hypothesized imaging workflow for admitted medicine patients. Source: post author
A 2-hour meeting, eight weeks of delay, and several email exchanges later, we now rely mostly on manual data collection. This blog post is about what happened. Continue reading