Karlstad Hospital meets the regional target for mammography screening services

November 2007 - Karlstad Hospital faced a severe lack of reporting capacity for mammography screening due to the fact that they had insufficient mammographists onsite. The hospital was pressured to meet the local health authority target for compulsory mammography screening, which was to extend these services to a broader age group of women. The volume of cases began to increase significantly and rather quickly. Trying to keep up, mammographists became fatigued and stressed.

TMC and Karlstad Hospital teamed up to develop a solution whereby the TMC mammography team performed the second reading to fulfill the double-reading requirements of the hospital. TMC was able to provide additional capacity through second reading by another qualified radiologist to confirm the reading and ensure accuracy.

Karlstad Hospital met their target and continues to provide mammography screening to a larger base of women patients.

"I am very satisfied with the collaboration with Telemedicine Clinic and would like to especially point out the good collaboration we’ve had with TMC’s mammography doctors.”

Birgitta Andersson, Head of Mammography, Karlstad Hospital