An NHS-X winning platform.
RADARR is a revolutionary web-based tool that creates a bespoke alert that is sent to the right clinical team via messaging apps or email.
Client
RADARR
Sector
Health
Product
Web app
Year
2020


The RADARR platform seeks to ease the process of connecting medical professionals with their patient's radiology reports with an all-in-one solution that allows for the reduction of the time it takes to make a diagnosis on the basis of MRI scans and X-rays. An RCR audit found only 34% of radiology departments have an alert system in place, even fewer had facilities for tracking reports posing unacceptable risks and consequences for patients with critical diagnoses. The NHS litigation authority cited delayed diagnosis to alleged failures in the system of communicating unexpected or significant findings, failure to recommend appropriate follow-up studies or action leading to significant harm. RADARR is intended to reduce the impact of litigation on the NHS.
Currently, a radiologist has to email critical findings to colleagues from a PACS (picture archiving and communication system) machine. To do this the radiologist must be in the same location as the scanning machine, record findings in a text-based manner and generate a separate proforma document on that PACS machine. As a result, the process can be labour intensive and holds multiple inefficiencies.
By combining these services into a single web platform, as well as capturing scans from a PACs machine Radarr also opens up the potential for a radiologist to start the proforma process from a remote folder of scan images if necessary, allowing for more remote-working/socially distanced scenarios.
The enormous volume of patients, combined with lockdown, remote working, and social distance, has made it challenging for radiology teams to transmit diagnostic information to the appropriate team, in the right format, in a timely manner. Since the Covid-19 lockdowns prohibited people from being in the same area, the inefficiencies have been exacerbated by the wide range of digital communication platforms that have become part of the medical communications process, both in the NHS and in private practice.






Connecting private and public medical care.
After extensive user testing, we developed a solution for both private and public radiology units that delivers a seamless user experience while integrating sophisticated, lightweight technology. Designed to run efficiently even on lower-end machines, the platform ensures broad accessibility across diverse working environments. Radarr captures scans directly from PACS machines and enables remote proforma processing, supporting greater flexibility for remote work and socially distanced scenarios. Key features include a cross-platform web app optimised for desktop and tablet use; in-platform scan recording, editing, and annotation with both visual and text-based labels; the generation of pre-defined proformas for various use cases; instant addition of captured MP4s and PNGs to proformas; integration with multiple communication channels for sending proformas to patients and colleagues; and a highly secure backend to protect sensitive medical data.
