Signify Premium Insight: Keeping Faith in Mission Command

The first part of this series, Establishing a Commanding Position, (available here) emphasised the strategic opportunity that command centre solutions presented large international medical imaging vendors for increasingly embedding themselves in hospitals’ imaging departments. Focusing solely on this opportunity for vendors however misses some of the key improvements to care that such tools can also offer.

One such opportunity is the provision of virtual acquisition support; this is one aspect of Philips’ Radiology Operations Command Center and the central focus of Siemens Healthineers’ offering,  Virtual Cockpit. These solutions enable a senior physician or radiographer who isn’t in the same hospital as a patient or the modality, to guide the imaging procedure remotely. There are