Radiology Patients Lost To Follow-up: Challenges And Opportunities
Radiology practices are struggling to identify and provide timely quality care to more than 50% of patients with follow-up recommendations. Failure to follow-up costs healthcare systems millions of dollars each year in medical-legal liability, and presents a $20 billion missed revenue opportunity.
In this video Dr. Woojin Kim (leading imaging informaticist), and Dr. Ben Wandtke (renowned healthcare quality expert) sit down with Within Health's CEO to discuss the challenges and promises of recommendation tracking and reminder systems.
There are seven major topics covered:
2:27 | How big is the issue of missed follow-up recommendations?
6:53 | Why are follow-ups falling through the cracks?
9:33 | How are organizations addressing the follow-up gap?
16:35 | What are the challenges of Natural Language Processing (NLP), and AI?
26:26 | What are the gaps with the current solutions on the market?
31:59 | What makes Within Health unique?
33:43 | Do you see applications of Within Health outside of radiology?
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About Within Health
Every single adult in the United States can expect to be harmed because of missed, delayed, or inaccurate diagnoses at some point in their lifetime. At Within Health, we believe in a world where patients get the care they need when they need it. We are solving this problem every single day for millions of patients across the country.
Within Health is transforming how clinical diagnoses and recommendations are tracked and delivered to patients and their providers. We've built a system to track findings and recommendations made in radiology reports using proprietary AI and Natural Language algorithms, and automate the outreach to patients, and doctors reminding them to act on these findings. Our process ensures that patients and referrers are made aware that a follow-up is needed, and that the recommendation feedback loop is closed. Early action on clinical diagnoses and recommendations prevent patient harm and give them the best chance for healthy outcomes.
We are headquartered in New York City, and are venture backed by Antler Global, Brand New Matter Ventures, and strategic healthcare investors.
