3D Imaging Labs: Costs & Benefits of Outsourced vs. In-house Post-Processing

Moderated by Dr. Keith Marton, MD, FACP
Executive in Residence, Health Management Academy
Alexander Szafran and Ralph Gentry

Join this roundtable to learn the costs and benefits associated with US-based outsourced image post-processing vs. in-house post-processing, and discuss:
• How outsourcing offers an alternative that provides equivalent post-processing quality without the costs associated with an in-house 3D lab.
• How to leverage external vendors to enforce internal standardization and workflow efficiency.
• To what extent outsourcing provides an accordion-like advantage to operations needing both growth and contraction flexibility.
• Alternatives to avoid drowning in fixed costs during slow periods.

You will learn:
• Why other Hospital Administrators have chosen to outsource their image post-processing instead of building a physical 3D Lab inside their hospital.
• The value of shifting post-processing related expenses from Capital Budgets to Operational Budgets.
• How to enforce policy and cost containment through outsourcing.
• How to maintain workflow efficiencies during a pandemic.