10 articles

Radiology & Imaging

RIS, PACS, DICOM exchange, teleradiology, and imaging department workflow.

TLD Badge and Radiation Worker Dose Record Management

Personnel monitoring fails on administration, not on physics. This is the working cycle for issuing, collecting, dispatching and acting on TLD badges, the records an inspection asks for, and the escalation path when a reading comes back high.

Aparna Raghavan

Jul 6, 2026 · 10 min read

Radiology & Imaging

PACS Storage Planning and Medical Image Retention

Imaging storage is sized wrongly more often than any other hospital system, because the arithmetic is done once at purchase and never again. Here is how to size from your own modality mix, tier the archive, and decide what retention actually obliges you to keep.

Kabir Sethna

Jun 22, 2026 · 11 min read

Radiology & Imaging

Teleradiology Contracts and Liability: What to Get in Writing

Outsourced night and weekend reporting done properly: credentialing the remote radiologist, NMC registration checks, turnaround SLAs with teeth, liability allocation, DPDP obligations once images leave your premises.

Aparna Raghavan

Jun 8, 2026 · 11 min read

Radiology & Imaging

Radiology AI and CDSCO: A Buyer's Verification Checklist

Due diligence before you sign for an imaging AI tool: how the software is classified under the Medical Device Rules 2017, verifying the CDSCO position, reading the intended use statement, and validating on your own population.

Dr. Nandini Iyer

May 25, 2026 · 11 min read

Radiology & Imaging

NABH Medical Imaging Services Standards: A Practical Decode

What the imaging standards actually require, the scope of services document everything else hangs from, the SOPs an assessor opens first, imaging quality indicators, and the non-conformities departments repeat year after year.

Dr. Nandini Iyer

May 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Radiology & Imaging

Radiology Report Turnaround Time: Benchmarks and Bottlenecks

Which clock starts where, the seven places a study actually waits, why an average across modalities tells you nothing, and what a NABH assessor expects you to be able to demonstrate about imaging turnaround.

Dr. Nandini Iyer

Apr 27, 2026 · 11 min read

Radiology & Imaging

HL7 ORM to DICOM Modality Worklist: The Order-to-Report Chain

How an imaging order travels from the HMS to the scanner and back as a signed report, and the four failure points Indian hospitals actually hit: accession mismatch, patient ID drift, unmatched studies and manual entry at the console.

Kabir Sethna

Apr 13, 2026 · 12 min read

Radiology & Imaging

RIS vs PACS vs HMS Radiology Module: What You Actually Need

Three layers, one workflow. What a RIS does that a billing module cannot, where PACS boundaries sit, what your HMS radiology module already covers, and how to decide whether a standalone system is genuinely required.

Kabir Sethna

Mar 30, 2026 · 11 min read

Radiology & Imaging

PC-PNDT Form F Compliance for Hospital Ultrasound Units

PC-PNDT is criminal law, not a documentation standard. Form A registration, per-scan Form F records, the fields inspectors actually check, monthly submission, two-year retention and the exposure under Section 23.

Aparna Raghavan

Mar 16, 2026 · 11 min read

Radiology & Imaging

AERB eLORA Licensing for Hospital Radiology: A Full Guide

Institute registration, RSO nomination, equipment declaration, room layout approval and renewal, walked through in order for an administrator responsible for twenty or more radiation-emitting machines across several departments.

Aparna Raghavan

Mar 2, 2026 · 11 min read