Rad-Aid International Inc

Women's health: the rad-aid usa women's health access initiative supports evidence based approaches to delivering breast cancer screening and diagnostic services in region of the us where healthcare inequalities disproportionaltely impact medically underserved women. The program includes multidisciplinary efforts such as public health outreach, nursing and community navigation, breast and cervical cancer screening, mobile health, and radiology.

Informatics: this program seeks to improve access to digital health technologies in low resource areas. Strategies include education, on-site training, and clinical assistance for implementing new it architectures such as pacs, ris, ehr, networks, artificial intelligence, and cloud based solutions. The program helps to make these essential technologies more available to low resource health areas and health workers for storing, retrieving, and interpreting patient data, so that software can have the best impact on patient care.

Education: this program promotes radiology education delivery and human capacity development in response to gaps and needs found in radiology readiness data across all rad-aid partner countries. Education is delivered though both in-person and virtual methods.

Technologists: this program promotes radiologic technologist and radiographer involvement in multipdisciplinary teams to strengthen image acquisition, education, and patient care competencies in global health radiology.

Interventional radiology: this program is dedicated to improving access to interventional radiology services and procedures in low resource settings through education, training, and other outreach endeavors. This program has implemented a global ir curriculum for clinical care and syllbus of procedures, including simulated training, weinars, hands on workshops, and international didactics.

Nuclear medicine: this program seeks to help low resources hospitals to safely and effectively use nuclear medicine imaging. Efforts include education, training, and equipment based clinical support.

Medical physics: this program seeks to improve the quality and safety of radiology, radiation oncology, and nuclear medicine in low resource areas. Strategies include didactic training, quality assurance support, and protocol development.

Nursing: this program promotes nursing involvement in multidisciplinary teams to strengthen nursing care competencies and education in global health radiology.

Breast imaging: this program seeks to improve breast cancer outcomes and survival in low resources settings by supporting early diagnosis and breast cancer screening. The program also seeks to help strengthen the pathway from diagnosis to treatment by engaging multidisciplinary partners, providing ongoing education and training.

Radiation oncology: this program seeks to optimize oncology services from diagnosis to cancer treatment. By providing outreach education, the program focuses on the cancer control pipeline approach, incorporating diagnostic imaging, interventional radiology, and radiation oncology as a multidisciplinary approach to reducing cancer mortality.

Pediatrics: this program seeks to improve pediatric radiology in low resource hospitals by providing education and training in dedicated children's imaging protocols and procedures.

Mobile health: this program seeks to promote mobile health care delivery as a solution for providing radiology services to underserved populations around the world, by providing education and training on best practices for managing and implementing mobile healthcare programs.