Description
Provide remote interpretation of medical imaging—such as X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, mammography, and nuclear medicine—via secure teleradiology systems. Deliver timely, accurate reports and consultations, optimize imaging protocols and radiation safety with partner sites, and participate in quality assurance, peer review, and urgent care coordination.
- • Interpret diagnostic imaging studies via secure PACS/RIS workstations.
- • Prepare timely, accurate, and structured reports using voice recognition.
- • Communicate critical and unexpected findings using approved escalation protocols.
- • Confer with referring providers to clarify clinical questions and recommend appropriate imaging.
- • Review orders and patient histories to confirm exam appropriateness and contrast use.
- • Protocol imaging exams and advise technologists on techniques, positioning, and patient preparation.
- • Verify image quality, identifiers, laterality, and priors; request repeats or additional views when needed.
- • Participate in peer review, discrepancy reconciliation, and quality improvement initiatives.
- • Develop and follow remote reading workflows, report templates, and turnaround time standards.
- • Monitor and support imaging protocol optimization and radiation dose reduction with partner sites.
- • Establish and promote standards for patient safety, data privacy, and HIPAA compliance.
- • Coordinate urgent care pathways (e.g., stroke, trauma, pulmonary embolism) with onsite teams.
- • Attend virtual multidisciplinary conferences and tumor boards.
- • Provide remote consultations on indications, limitations, and risks of imaging and contrast agents.
- • Educate technologists and trainees through virtual feedback and case reviews.
- • Use AI triage and decision support tools responsibly and validate outputs.
- • Maintain workstation calibration, ambient lighting, and display QA per ACR guidelines.
- • Troubleshoot PACS/RIS/VPN connectivity and DICOM routing issues with IT as needed.
- • Manage worklists to meet service-level agreements and coverage schedules, including nights and weekends.
- • Document critical communications, recommendations, and follow-up plans in the medical record.
- • Ensure compliance with credentialing, licensure, and privileging for all serviced sites and states.
- • Participate in continuing medical education and maintain board certification and MOC.
- • Triage interventional or procedural cases and notify onsite specialists as appropriate.
- • Adhere to standardized nomenclature, coding, and structured reporting requirements.
- • Mitigate risk in high-error areas such as stroke imaging, lung nodules, and laterality verification.
- • Support downtime and disaster recovery procedures to maintain continuity of service.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
