Reading the image is the part of radiology that gets the attention, and the part still years from clearing regulation. Meanwhile the report is written from nothing for the tenth time this morning, findings are described in words the patient cannot picture, the register is kept by hand, and statutory records are filled at speed by people who have to get every column right. That is where software earns its place today.
A centre's day is mostly the hours on either side of the probe. Three places where ordinary, well-made software returns time on the same afternoon it is installed.
Statutory forms and registers, read years later by someone who was not there. The cost of one blank column is wildly out of proportion to the seconds it takes to fill.
Most of a normal study is the same sentences in the same order, and only the measurements change. Dictating all of it every time is the largest single cost in a reporting day.
Nobody outside medicine understands proximal hydroureter with calyceal fullness. A drawing of where the problem sits explains it in a second, and referring clinicians read it faster too.
Two are live and free to use. The others are being built in the order centres ask for them, across records, reporting and the pictures that go with them.
Fill, check and print the PC&PNDT record for an obstetric ultrasound. It refuses to let an incomplete form be signed, and nothing you type ever leaves your computer.
Open itEnter the stones and the grade of hydronephrosis; get a labelled diagram of the renal tract with the findings written out underneath. For the patient to understand, and for the report. More anatomy to follow.
Open itTemplates for routine studies, where the normal sentences are already written and only the measurements and the abnormal findings need attention.
SoonBoth generated from records already entered, in serial order, so neither is written a second time or reconstructed from the file on the last day of the month.
SoonMade once, so each new tool inherits them rather than arguing them again.
Every tool opens in a browser. No installer, no administrator password, no antivirus warning, and no version that runs on one machine in the centre but not another.
No account, no login, no server holding records. Patient details are stored in that browser alone and are never transmitted anywhere, including to us.
Nothing here interprets an image or suggests a finding. That keeps the tools clear of device regulation and keeps clinical responsibility with the practitioner who signs.
Nothing here needs learning during a working list. A tool that costs thirty seconds of thought per patient will be abandoned by Friday, however good it is underneath.