Keeping Workers Productive
Medical imaging helps keep workers healthy and on the job – often avoiding surgery, long recuperation, and disability. It also serves as a barometer for quality in value-based purchasing. And when teamed with information technology, medical imaging becomes an active partner in efforts to reduce errors and inefficiencies.
Image-based interventions provide high-quality care, with fewer days away from work:
- Uterine fibroid embolization allows patients to recover in about one week versus six weeks – substantially reducing the five to ten million days of work lost annually due to fibroids.
- A non-surgical radiation delivery system offers targeted cancer therapy, with no pain and a quick return to normal activities.
- Abdominal aneurysm repairs guided by imaging allow patients to return to the job in one week versus a long recuperation that follows surgery.
Exploratory surgery is a thing of the past for many workers, thanks to medical imaging.
- Ultrasound-guided liver biopsies reduce complications – and in-hospital time.
Imaging offers an important tool for employers in value-based purchasing of health care services.
Keeping employees healthy is good for business.
Imaging helps employers save disability and health insurance costs for conditions that sideline employees:
- CT, MRI, and other imaging tests identify stroke early, to allow cost-saving and life-saving early treatment.
- Imaging is helping workers and employers battle diabetic eye disease.
- CT scanning is helping patients and employers overcome the costs of trauma to the spine.
