BLOG: Remote Reading Positions Northwell Health for Success During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Like many other healthcare providers across the country, Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider with 17 imaging centers across New York, saw a surge in COVID-19 patients at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
Northwell braced for the worst, setting up intensive care units and acute care floors, including units in lobbies to manage the tidal wave of COVID-19 patients.
While the need for intensive care units swelled, outpatient imaging decreased as non-acute care came to a halt. Overall and inpatient radiology volumes also went down; however, there was an obvious concern that radiologists were at risk simply by being in the hospital. Thus, Northwell, which typically has over 200 radiologists interpreting more than 2 million medical scans a year, decided to move many of its radiologists to read from home.
Remote Reading Positions Northwell Health for Success During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Like many other healthcare providers across the country, Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider with 17 imaging centers across New York, saw a surge in COVID-19 patients at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
Northwell braced for the worst, setting up intensive care units and acute care floors, including units in lobbies to manage the tidal wave of COVID-19 patients.
While the need for intensive care units swelled, outpatient imaging decreased as non-acute care came to a halt. Overall and inpatient radiology volumes also went down; however, there was an obvious concern that radiologists were at risk simply by being in the hospital. Thus, Northwell, which typically has over 200 radiologists interpreting more than 2 million medical scans a year, decided to move many of its radiologists to read from home.