Built by radiologists who ran hospital departments.
AstraRad is run by clinician operators. The people who set our turnaround tiers have staffed reading rooms and answered to hospital boards. AstraRad has read for imaging centers and radiology groups for more than ten years; the panel has signed 2.4 million reports, cumulative since 2019, for 160+ facilities, and quality is a number we hand our clients every month, not a word we use.
A named signer, and a second set of eyes.
One in 20 signed reports is independently double-read by a second subspecialist, blind. The major discrepancy rate runs under 0.3%. The ACR's RADPEER program states that no scoring benchmarks have been established, so there is no industry target to claim alignment with; we publish our own rate and the method behind it instead, and every client receives a monthly quality report with those numbers in it.
Subspecialty-matched routing
Every study is routed by modality and body part to a radiologist credentialed to read it, before interpretation begins.
One in 20, double-read
One in 20 signed reports is re-read blind by a second subspecialist, in a program modeled on ACR standards. Findings feed individual feedback and panel-level quality metrics.
Discrepancy tracking
Every addendum, correction, and client query is categorized and traced to its cause. The major discrepancy rate runs under 0.3%, tracked per modality and per radiologist, and it is management’s first number of the week.
A named signer, always
Every report carries the signing radiologist’s name and credentials, frozen at signature time. The full event history of a study, submission to delivery, is preserved in an append-only log.
The names on the reports.
240 board-certified, fellowship-trained subspecialists across ten subspecialties, all reading from within the United States on scheduled shifts and licensed in all 50 states. Coverage is 24/7/365, and night reading is a dedicated, scheduled shift with a required rest period before it. The physician who reads your study is the physician who signs the report.
How your studies are handled.
Data handling table stakes, each one meaning something specific about what happens to a study once it leaves your PACS.
HIPAA aligned
AstraRad operates as a HIPAA business associate under a signed BAA. Patient data is handled as protected health information end to end, with access controls, minimum-necessary scoping and breach procedures built to the HIPAA Security Rule safeguard categories.
EU imaging, processed under a DPA
AstraRad processes EU imaging as a processor, never as a controller, under a signed DPA. That supports your GDPR obligations with documented lawful-basis processing, data-subject rights handling, and EU-appropriate transfer safeguards for cross-border reporting.
Encrypted end to end
TLS on every transfer, encryption at rest for every stored study, and integrity hashing on every received image.
Audit-logged access
Every action taken on a study lands in an append-only audit log, scoped by role and by facility, with minimum-necessary access as the default.
DICOM conformant
Standards-based study transfer straight from your PACS. No software to install on your side, and your viewer stays your viewer.
HL7 and FHIR delivery
Report delivery that drops into your RIS and EHR workflows without a custom integration project.
Physician-led, and accountable by name.
Radiologist-led
The medical director is a practicing subspecialist radiologist. Subspecialty leads own the quality numbers for their sections, and service decisions are made by people who have read a 2am STAT head CT themselves.
A named team per client
Every client gets a named clinical liaison and a named operations contact, plus a quarterly service review with the turnaround data on the table. Not a ticket queue.
References, on your terms
Client references are available under NDA during procurement. Testimonials on this site are role-only by policy: we never attach a client name to a quote, and we will not attach yours.
The same accounting covers what we publish. Who reviews an article, which sources the build will accept, and how a correction is made and dated are set out in our editorial standards.
Meet the reading room.
Send your first study and watch it move through the pipeline, signed by a named subspecialist, inside the tier.
Figures on this page are current as of July 2026. Every statistic is defined, dated and its measurement method published on our SLA and statistics page.