From the November 2021 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

“This latest intelligent system helps to bring clarity to defining moments in healthcare by delivering on certainty, simplicity and reliability in every clinical area from cardiac care, to emergency radiology, diagnostic oncology, intervention and radiation oncology,” he said in a statement.

Spectral CT 7500 reduces time for diagnosis by 34%, repeat scans by 25% and follow-up scans by 30%. This helps offset the need for unnecessary, suboptimal and repeat imaging, which adds up to as much as $12 billion a year.


Fully integrated into hospital workflow, the solution enables the technologist to perform spectral chest and head scans in less than one second and full upper body spectral scans in less than two seconds. Its higher sensitivity allows it to more accurately detect malignant findings and improves readings of incidental findings. In addition, it can use photons to help salvage suboptimal injection scans without the need to rescan patients, thereby shortening the time it takes to diagnose a condition.

Spectral CT 7500 enables users to serve additional patient populations they could not before, from pediatric to bariatric, and for any clinical indication. This includes challenging cardiac scans with high and irregular heart rates. It also can optimize reading with rich spectral results and AI-based smart tools available in any reading environment with Spectral Magic Glass on PACS.

“Conventional CT scanners are limited and can only show us where things are located — like lesions, cysts, bleeds, fractures and more. Philips spectral detector-based systems help to characterize what the finding is, not just where it is, providing us greater confidence in diagnoses,” said Dr. Finn Rasmussen, associate professor and a consultant radiologist at Aarhus University.

Lean management decreases CT acquisition length, saves on exam time
Emory Healthcare announced in May that it is employing lean management principles to decrease CT acquisition time and save its radiological technologists hundreds of hours in performing exams.

A method for managing and organizing work, lean management aims to improve a company’s performance, particularly the quality and profitability of its production processes. The hospital system found that implementing it brought the number of emergency CT exams completed within two hours up to 71% and saved it six weeks of annualized rad tech time.

“The lessons we learned using these lean management tools may benefit other organizations facing similar challenges,” wrote quality program manager, Dr. Pratik Rachh and his colleagues in their study.

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