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Just curious.
Any radiologists working from home during this response?
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Not this one. Our residency is currently at ~50% staffing, but the residents are all in house. Some attendings read us out from home; most are also in house.
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Our local hospital has mandated working from remote workstations at home. A few at outpatient centers are staffed. IR team does inhouse fluro and procedures.
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Would both you say you have everything you need to work at home effectively? If so, do you still like radiology the same from home? Just wanting to know what it'd be like to be a teleradiologist.
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As a resident, I have just enough hardware to get by but not enough to be a full-time teleradiologist. Consumer grade monitors are adequate to read cross-sectional imaging (CT, MR, US)... despite what ordering teams will use as a cop out. 😉 However for xrays and mammograms we really do need fancy radiology monitors, which are cost prohibitive for a resident. We also have remote access to our EMR, PACS, and dictation software. You can configure any microphone to work with the dictation software, though something like a Nuance PowerMic would be more efficient.
Pragmatics aside, it's entirely another question whether teleradiology is for you. I'll oversimplify my response here and direct you to the radiology subforum or Aunt Minnie for a litany of prior discussions. In short, you can imagine the lifestyle advantages. The downsides are:
- decreased compensation per study read (on the order of 40 cents on the dollar)
- you don't perform any procedures, so that skill set atrophies (you'd be surprised how many procedures radiologists do)
- you don't get the same feedback on your reads from clinicians (though many places have ways for radiologists to QA each other) which makes your reads (slightly) less clinically helpful
- you don't participate in practice-building activities like multidisciplinary conferences, partner meetings, QI/QA projects, or lectures for ordering providers
- given that you are typically an employee rather than a partner, you get no say in how the practice is run
Pragmatics aside, it's entirely another question whether teleradiology is for you. I'll oversimplify my response here and direct you to the radiology subforum or Aunt Minnie for a litany of prior discussions. In short, you can imagine the lifestyle advantages. The downsides are:
- decreased compensation per study read (on the order of 40 cents on the dollar)
- you don't perform any procedures, so that skill set atrophies (you'd be surprised how many procedures radiologists do)
- you don't get the same feedback on your reads from clinicians (though many places have ways for radiologists to QA each other) which makes your reads (slightly) less clinically helpful
- you don't participate in practice-building activities like multidisciplinary conferences, partner meetings, QI/QA projects, or lectures for ordering providers
- given that you are typically an employee rather than a partner, you get no say in how the practice is run
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We had to seriously upgrade our internet speeds, to the tune of $350/ month. Hospital claims to reimburse for the cost. This price is for month to month service and will drop considerably once this TEMPORARY change is over. I'm not sure it will be temporary FWIW.
Also, working at home becomes a 24/7 job now that the hospital can find you anytime if the software crashes and they cant send images to Nighthawks, or some ER Doc isn't getting reports back from Nighthawks fast enough. If the costs ends up on the Radiologist for the home unit, for our system it costs about $30K.
Also, working at home becomes a 24/7 job now that the hospital can find you anytime if the software crashes and they cant send images to Nighthawks, or some ER Doc isn't getting reports back from Nighthawks fast enough. If the costs ends up on the Radiologist for the home unit, for our system it costs about $30K.
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Most of my diagnostic colleagues started working from home. I work in the hospitals as an IR. I actually prefer working at the hospital and keeping my work and home life separate. Dislike the thought of working for 9 hours straight in front of the computer at home, and don't think I could get much work done.
