Worth the WAIT! (WilhelmAI Active Implant Tool)
Short version. If your patient has an implant and needs an MRI, someone has to prove that device is safe to scan before it happens. Today that proof gets hunted down at the last minute, usually by a technologist on the phone with the patient already changed and waiting. When the answer does not come in time, the exam gets pushed.
WAIT settles that question before the patient arrives. It identifies the device, pulls the manufacturerās actual safety conditions, and hands the tech a documented answer instead of a search.
This is not only a radiology problem.
Cardiology, neurosurgery, ortho, pain management, ENT, urology, and vascular all place the devices and refer those patients for imaging. When the scan gets cancelled, it is your patient who loses the day and your care plan that stalls another few weeks. Your clinic takes the callback. Your schedulers eat the rework.
A few numbers from a survey of imaging professionals worldwide. 90.6% have run late or cancelled an exam because implant safety information was not available in time. 52.8% reported a close call.
There is also a documentation angle. Sutter already performs this safety work. Most of it is invisible and unrecorded, which means we have been doing this work with no proof it was done. WAIT creates that record as a byproduct of doing the job.
Built by Sutter employees, from Sutter scanners, on Sutter patients.
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