Introduction
The Mater Hospital is a 200 bed hospital that performs over one hundred and fifty thousand radiology procedures annually. The hospital sees over seven hundred and fifty thousand outpatient visits annually. The hospital has many departments that operate independently, although they are governed by the same overarching system. With the high number of radiology procedures, the hospital has been experiencing a backlog in the magnetic resonance imaging schedules. Even for the simplest procedures, the wait time was over twenty five days. This means that from the time a physician orders for a radiological test and the time the results Continue reading...