{"id":1005048,"date":"2026-04-27T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005048"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:48:27","slug":"ai-tackles-radiology-gap-5c-network-shrinks-scan-delays-enabling-timely-treatment-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/ai-tackles-radiology-gap-5c-network-shrinks-scan-delays-enabling-timely-treatment-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"AI tackles radiology gap: 5C network shrinks scan delays, enabling timely treatment decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has just about 22 radiologists per million people \u2013 far below the nearly 200 per million in the United States. The shortfall is most visible outside large cities, where access to specialist care remains limited and uneven. For patients in smaller towns, this often translates into long, anxious waits, sometimes days just to confirm whether chest pain is pneumonia or a fracture needs urgent attention. <\/p>\n<p>X-rays are frequently shared over WhatsApp and sit in queues, waiting to be read by radiologists who may be located in entirely different states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has just about 22 radiologists per million people \u2013 far below the nearly 200 per million in the United States. The shortfall is most visible outside large cities, where access to specialist care remains limited and uneven. For patients in smaller towns, this often translates into long, anxious waits, sometimes days just to confirm whether chest pain is pneumonia or a fracture needs urgent attention. X-rays are frequently shared over WhatsApp and sit in queues, waiting to be read by radiologists who may be located in entirely different states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005055,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005048\/revisions\/1005055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}