“The healthcare industry is facing a critical time; physicians and staff, already inundated with patient needs, are being asked to perform more tasks in a broader spectrum of medical categories. While it’s important to be knowledgeable in a variety of medical specialties, with emerging and evolving technology, it is impossible to be a jack-of-all-trades. Outpatient care facilities must find alternative measures to ensure the highest level of patient quality care is maintained in both patient diagnosis and treatment.
An area that requires much of the time and attention of an ambulatory surgery center is imaging needs. In today’s healthcare environment, the demand for imaging procedures is increasing at a far greater rate than the number of radiologists, which can make work flow a difficult and time-consuming task.”
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Joe Moock, Cataract Outsourcing, 21 April 2009
