On November 8, 2024, we celebrate International Day of Radiology across the community. A day dedicated to acknowledge the immense hard work that every one of you in radiology puts into supporting referrers and your patients in finding clear answers. At Bayer, we recognize your value and the impact you have on patients' lives, especially in these hectic times where many of you have to deal with staff shortages.
By connecting pixels and people through the digitalization of workflows, we help create a more efficient process, allowing you to better connect with your patients and provide the care they deserve.
With over 150 years in healthcare, we’re dedicated to helping you streamline workflows and make processes more efficient by creating solutions that support you and your team. Our aim is to help you continue to focus on your work and help patients find the answers they desperately need.
Can We Advance Patient Care Together?
With our Image Acquisition Workflow Solutions, we help streamline the radiology workflow with a connected ecosystem – making your day-to-day routines more manageable and efficient, so you can dedicate more time to patient care.
Let’s Clear Your Way with Efficiency
Whether you’re a Technologist, Radiologist, Administrator or IT manager, we have solutions that are personalized to support you throughout your workflow. Our image acquisition workflow solutions help to ensure you have streamlined workflows, consistent image quality, optimised suite management and a seamlessly integrated IT infrastructure, allowing more time for what matters most – patient care.
Looking to the Future
Radiology in Numbers
Explore a few key figures that reflect the past, present, and future of radiology. Medical imaging is more important than ever, playing an increasingly integral role in supporting diagnoses, guiding treatment decisions, and aiding in therapy planning.
The year the X-ray was developed by German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen. The first ever X-ray showed the left hand of his wife. The X in X-ray stands for “unknown” because he didn’t know quite what they were.
There are currently about 200 CE-certified AI-based software solutions that are available on the European market. Most of the apps address neuroradiology and chest radiology, followed by breast radiology and musculoskeletal radiology.
As of 2021, the estimated number of contrast-enhanced X-ray/CT and MRI procedures that are performed annually worldwide to help inform doctors’ decisions and aid in providing accurate, objective diagnoses for patients.
The number of MRI examinations is highest in Germany, the United States, Japan, and France, all of which have more than 100 MRI exams per 1,000 population in a year. The number of CT exams is highest in the United States, followed by Japan and Iceland.