Artificial Intelligence
Radiologists are experiencing increasing demands to be more efficient with reading images, and this pressure will intensify as health care in the United States shifts to a more value-based model. Demand for image interpretation has increased to the point that a significant number of hospitals are now reportedly outsourcing their images to private firms. Some sources estimate that hospitals outsource more than 90% of their imaging, but, for the in-house radiologists at the hospital, there are still plenty of images to be read. The question becomes, "Why are so many images outsourced, and why can't the radiologists working in the hospital keep up?"