Radiology is medicine’s window into the body through the use of imaging technologies to diagnose, monitor, and treat disease.

Medical imaging is often the beginning of a patient's healthcare journey and plays a role in the diagnosis and management of thousands of medical conditions. In the United States, hundreds of millions of imaging procedures are performed annually, supported by a workforce of radiologists, technologists, nurses, physicists, administrators, and software systems.

Demand for imaging continues to grow while workforce shortages, increasing complexity, fragmented software, and operational inefficiencies place significant strain on clinicians and healthcare organizations.

Radiology (OS) is an open-source effort to make the radiology ecosystem easier to understand through data, stories, workflows, diagrams, and visualizations.

Use data, visualizations, and storytelling to explain:

• The size and scope of radiology

• The people who perform the work

• The technology and systems that support it

• The role radiology plays across healthcare

Understand and communicate the key pain points experienced by:

• The healthcare system

• Clinicians and radiology staff

• Practice and imaging center leaders

• Patients and caregivers

Document the real-world workflows behind:

• Ordering imaging studies

• Scheduling

• Patient preparation

• Image acquisition

• Interpretation

• Reporting

• Clinical decision making

• Follow-up care