Should you ever see a radiologist from Radiology Partners in action—say, reviewing an MRI on an injured knee or an abdominal CT scan from an emergency room visit—one of the first things you’d notice is the number of screens. To the untrained eye, it all seems a bit confusing; a mishmash of images and charts.
In truth, what you’re seeing is the cutting edge of the discipline. On one screen are all the scans taken in the ER. On another, years of that patient’s medical records. As the radiologist speaks, the third screen uses a voice dictation tool to fill in a new report with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI).
Joe Schohl has seen this setup more times than he can count. He’s not a doctor, mind you, but that didn’t stop him from appreciating how the tools of a radiologist might be brought to bear on his own job.
“Seeing how our radiologists operate inspired my vision for how we can work in the legal department,” says Schohl, chief legal officer for Radiology Partners. “We spend a lot of time as lawyers gathering information needed to provide good counsel. Whether it’s from people, documents or some file you vaguely remember attached to an email six weeks ago—we know there’s a better way.”