BEFUND24Your access to expertise in radiology
Overcoming limited reading capacities during COVID-19
The spread of COVID-19 challenges healthcare systems globally. With this, also the burden on radiologists is growing, who must review and prioritize a rising number of patient chest scans each day. Combined with the absence of qualified radiologists due to quarantine or sick leave, this poses significant risks and challenges to healthcare providers who must secure and even ramp up capacity. In these situations, simple, flexible, and scalable access to radiological experts can help to overcome staff shortage or master high volumes of examinations in radiology departments.
Access to expertise in radiology with our teleradiology solution BEFUND241
BEFUND241 provides you access to expertise in radiology to help you master staff shortages and high reading loads of radiology exams. It manages data transfer, administrative and financial processes, and brings together hospitals and radiologists. Simple, flexible, and scalable teleradiology.
Benefits
Enabling remote diagnostic reading to master staff shortage and high loads
Hospitals with a lack of qualified radiologists or high load use BEFUND24 in an easy and flexible way to get access to a network of subspecialists providing teleradiology service 24/72.
What BEFUND24 does for you
- Providing a growing network of experts, subspecialized in neuroradiology, musculoskeletal, gynecology, cardiovascular, oncology, to overcome the burden of missing qualified staff or of limited reading capacities
- Allowing you to react flexibly to increasing workloads
- Enabling high quality and reliability with written, digitally documented, expert-validated medical reports
- Handling of data transfer, administrative and financial processes on a secured future-oriented platform with centrally managed operations for seamless teleradiology
How it works
Image transfer with the BEFUND24 teleradiology solution
Data handling
Secure data handling between hospitals and radiologists
Compliance with data protection and data security are very important to us. The basic principles of "Privacy by design and by default" have been implemented in the architecture of the BEFUND24 teleradiology solution. The development was performed according to the cybersecurity development standard of Siemens Healthineers. Independent security and penetration tests are carried out regularly. The patient data is processed on the local components of the hospital and radiologist and is generally only transferred between the hospital and the radiologist using secure end-to-end encryption.
BEFUND24 is currently only available in Germany and a joint venture between Siemens Healthineers and “radiologen24 GmbH”. For more information please visit the official website. (available in German only)