- Worklist sync
- Auto assignment by modality and subspecialty
- Notify on assign
- Instant critical finding alerts
For emergency and STAT coverage
Cover the ED without it covering you.
Emergency reporting compresses everything that can go wrong in radiology into minutes. Skia runs the coordination, keeps the wording precise at speed, and checks every report before it leaves. The pace stays. The strain goes.
- Studies route themselves
- Precise wording at STAT speed
- Every read checked before submit
- Zero patient data stored by Skia
01Why this exists
Three failure modes, one shift
An ED shift asks a radiologist to do three jobs at once: watch the queue so nothing STAT sits unseen, read fast without letting the wording slip, and stay consistent under a pace that punishes consistency.
Each job fails in its own way. The watched worklist taxes attention all shift. Speed pushes reports toward hedged, ambiguous language. And hurry produces the classic contradiction: a right-sided finding, a left-sided impression.
None of these are skill problems. They are workflow problems, and they have workflow answers.
02 The vigilance problem
Stop watching the worklist. It will call you.
ED coverage usually means staring at a queue for ten hours so a STAT study never sits unnoticed. SkiaManager removes the staring. Studies route to the right reader the moment they arrive, and the alert lands on a channel you already watch: Messages, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, or email. Attention goes to reading, not monitoring.
Explore SkiaManager03 The clarity problem
Speed stops degrading the wording
At 3am, language improvised under pressure drifts: hedges, vague laterality, missing comparisons. With SkiaReporter the radiologist selects findings and the report assembles itself in clinically precise wording. What goes in is standardized, so what comes out reads the same at hour ten as it did at hour one. The impression builds from the same selections, so nothing is predicted and nothing is fabricated.
Explore SkiaReporter- Click to report
- 70 to 90% of impressions auto generated
- 30 to 40% faster reporting
- The right template loads itself
04 The hurry problem
The pace of the ED no longer sets the error rate
Time pressure produces a predictable error class: internal contradictions, sides that disagree between findings and impression, a conclusion that forgets a finding. SkiaQA reads every report against your consistency rules before it submits, in seconds, at 2am exactly as at 10am. The radiologist sees the flag inline and fixes it before anyone else ever could.
Explore SkiaQA- Every report checked, not a sample
- Laterality and contradiction checks
- Findings-impression consistency
- Critical findings surfaced before submit
05Together
The fastest report is the one you never have to correct.
Each piece helps alone. Together they change the shape of the shift. The queue runs itself, so attention goes to images. The wording is selected, so speed costs nothing in precision. The check runs before submit, so nothing rides on how sharp anyone feels at hour nine.
Quality and speed stop being a trade-off because they come from the same source: a report done right the first time.
06What changes
STAT speed. Signed-with-confidence quality.
- Every
- STAT report checked before submit
- Instant
- Critical finding alerts
- 30 to 40%
- Faster reporting
- Zero
- Patient data stored by Skia
Reporting figures observed in early deployments. Results vary by case mix, modality, and team.
Your data never leaves your PACS. Skia stores zero patient data, and most web based workflows set up with minimal IT involvement.
07Common questions
Asked by every ED coverage team we meet
How does Skia handle STAT studies overnight?
Studies route automatically by modality, subspecialty, and availability, and the assigned radiologist is alerted on a channel they already watch. Critical findings trigger instant alerts to managers. Nothing depends on someone watching a queue.
Does faster reporting mean lower quality reports?
No. The speed comes from removing correction passes, not from rushing reads. Selected findings produce precise wording, impressions build from those same findings, and every report is checked for consistency before it submits.
What does SkiaQA check on an emergency read?
Laterality, internal contradictions, comparison dates, findings-impression consistency, completeness for the modality and body part, grammar, and critical findings that need to be communicated.
Do radiologists have to change how they work overnight?
Adoption is at each radiologist's pace. The QA layer and the operations layer work with existing reporting; click to report can be adopted study type by study type.
08Further reading
Go deeper on the problems this solves
Emergency radiology reporting: a practical STAT guide
A practical guide to emergency radiology reporting covering STAT workflow, on-call pressures, turnaround, report quality, and clearer ED communication.
Read articleWorklist vigilance in ED coverage: the shift nobody counts
Why ED worklist vigilance drains attention across a shift, where queue watching creates risk, and how notification driven coverage changes ED coverage.
Read articleReporting under time pressure: keeping STAT wording clear
Why reporting under time pressure drifts toward ambiguity in emergency radiology, and how constrained input keeps urgent report wording clinically precise.
Read articleHurry contradictions in STAT reports: where they come from
Why contradictions in STAT reports cluster under hurry, how findings and impressions drift apart, and what a pre submit QA check catches before submission.
Read articleSee an ED shift run on Skia
Twenty minutes, your case mix, no slides that dodge the hard questions.