Health Sciences North collaborates with other hospitals to improve medical imaging times and the sharing of hospital medical records
Sudbury's Health Sciences North has made significant gains in medical imaging turnaround times since it began collaborating with the Joint Department Of Medical Imaging which is part of the Toronto-based University Health Network.
He said this means that patient images - X-rays, CT scans, MRIs and others - are seen and read by specially trained radiologists at a rate that has increased from 20 per cent in 2019 to more than 80 per cent in 2023. He said there was also improvement in getting images read for outpatients. It was 17 days in 2019 and today it is only six days, said Fenton.
This is important because not every patient in the North goes to the same hospital. Many patients have to travel to get enhanced care in other cities.
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