We sell teleradiology and we write about teleradiology. Here is the rule set.
AstraRad publishes guides, cost explainers and vendor comparisons in the market it competes in. That is a conflict of interest, and pretending otherwise would be the wrong place to start. What follows is what we do about it: who reviews the material, where the numbers come from, what the build itself refuses to publish, and how to get an error fixed.
The byline is the group, on purpose.
Every article on this site is published under AstraRad, not under a person. No individual physician is named anywhere on this site: not on the panel pages, not on a sample report, not here. That policy exists to protect the radiologists who read for us, and the byline follows it rather than working around it.
A radiologist on the panel signs off
Any page that makes a clinical statement is reviewed by a board-certified radiologist on the AstraRad panel before it publishes. We do not print the reviewer’s name, for the same reason we do not print any radiologist’s name on this site.
Claims are owned by the person accountable for them
Pages about pricing, contract terms, turnaround commitments or other companies are reviewed by whoever would have to stand behind the claim in a procurement call. If nobody will own a sentence, it does not ship.
No invented author personas
There is no fictional staff writer and no borrowed physician byline on this site. Where you see AstraRad as the author, the author really is the organization, and the review above is what stands behind it.
A named physician byline would carry more weight with a search engine than an organization byline does. We publish the organization anyway. This page is the trade we are offering instead: a process you can check in place of a name you cannot.
A page without a primary source does not compile.
This is not an aspiration. Our publishing pipeline runs a content gate before anything is rendered, and a page that fails it stops the build. Nothing reaches this site by being written and pushed.
At least one primary source, per page, or the build fails
Every page in resources, use-cases, services, licensing and careers must link to at least one source whose host is on the allow-list beside this. The check counts distinct hosts rather than links, so five links into one document count once and padding earns nothing.
No exceptions list
The gate supports a per-page exemption ledger. It is empty, and it stays empty. The same check errors if a page that has been fixed is left sitting on the list, so the ledger cannot quietly become a permanent bypass.
At least one heading is the question the section answers
Those same pages must carry at least one H2 written as a real question, and the whole library is held above a floor that only ever moves up. It keeps pages answering what a reader actually asked instead of restating a keyword.
No page publishes without a title, a description and a date
The content compiler stops the entire site build if a page is missing any of the three. An undated page cannot be judged for freshness by a reader or a parser, so an undated page is not allowed to exist.
One definition per number, dated, in one place.
Every AstraRad figure on this site is defined once, on the SLA and statistics page, with the date it was measured and the method used to measure it. Pages quote that definition; they do not hold their own copy of it.
The same table, copied with a stable anchor on every row so a single figure can be cited on its own, is on the facts page, alongside what this site deliberately does not publish and why.
The published table and the code cannot disagree
The figures rendered across this site and the dated table on the SLA page are compared against each other at build time. If the value or the as-of date differs by a character, the build fails. There is no path by which this site publishes two versions of the same number.
Every figure carries an as-of date
A number without a date is not checkable. Each one is labelled with the period it was measured over or the month it was refreshed, and the measurement method is published beside it: what starts the clock, what stops it, and what is in the denominator.
Third-party figures are attributed in line
Market rates, salary ranges and benchmark timings taken from someone else are named and dated where they appear, and labelled as not ours. A cost comparison that blends our numbers with market numbers without saying which is which is not a comparison.
No invented precision
We do not add a decimal place we did not measure, and we do not turn a range into a point estimate because it reads better. Where a fact is not available, the page says what is true and stops rather than filling the gap with something that sounds right.
When it was written, when it was checked, what changed.
Every page carries the date it was published and, once it has been revised, the date it was last updated. The same two dates go into the page's structured data as datePublished and dateModified, read straight out of the page source. There is no separate display date that can drift away from the real one.
Reviewed on a schedule, and when a source moves
Pages that depend on a source with its own publication cycle, such as the Medicare physician fee schedule or state licensure and compact rules, are reviewed when that source publishes. Every other page is reviewed at least once every 12 months.
What triggers a correction
A factual error, a figure that has moved, a source that has been withdrawn or superseded, or a statement about another company that its own site no longer supports. Fixing a typo is not a correction and does not pretend to be one.
Corrections are visible, not silent
A material correction changes the page, moves its updated date, and says what changed. We do not delete a page to make an error disappear. A review that finds nothing to change does not move the date, because that would be a claim of work we did not do.
Found something wrong on this site?
There is no separate editorial desk. Send the page URL and what is wrong with it through the contact form, and a person will answer you. If you are right, the page changes and the updated date moves with it. Every other route into AstraRad, including the published telephone number, is listed on the support page.
The absences on this site are deliberate.
Each of these is a standing rule, not an oversight, and every one of them costs us something with a reader who wanted the answer in one click.
A price
AstraRad quotes per client from modality mix, volume and urgency, so no AstraRad rate appears anywhere on this site. Cost pages carry third-party market figures, labelled as not ours, and route you to a written quote instead.
A certification we do not hold
An accreditation is named on this site only if we hold it and can hand you the report during procurement. Nothing here claims one. Security and compliance documentation is provided for your review under NDA.
Patient data
No real patient study, report or identifier appears on this site. Imaging shown on these pages is staged for the page, and the specimen report is watermarked so it can never be mistaken for a real one.
An individual physician’s name
Not a medical director, not a reviewer, not a testimonial signature. The policy is absolute, which is why the author of every article here is the organization.
A named client without permission
Testimonials on this site are role-only. We do not attach a client name to a quote, and we will not attach yours. References are available under NDA during procurement, which is the point at which a name is worth something to you.
A capability we cannot demonstrate
If a claim cannot be shown in a live call, produced as a document, or backed by a number on the SLA page, it does not go on the site. That rule removes more sentences than any other one here.
Two of those absences have a page behind them rather than a shrug. The pricing model is described in full, without a rate, on the pricing page, and the argument for a specific kind of buyer is made on its own page rather than by dropping a number into a guide: hospitals, imaging centers and radiology groups.
You are reading a vendor's comparison. Read it that way.
We publish pages that name other teleradiology companies, and we sell against those companies. Both of those are true at the same time, and no editorial policy makes the second one disappear. What a policy can do is make the argument checkable, so here is how ours is built.
Sourced to the other company, not to us
Every statement about another provider carries a source and the date we read it. Where the source is that provider’s own published page, the link is on the page, so if you think we have it wrong you can go and check. Where a fact about a company comes from anywhere other than its own site, a change of ownership announced by the buyer for example, we name the source and the date in the text rather than linking it, and we say plainly that the company’s own site does not carry it.
A blank stays blank
Where a company does not publish a price, a turnaround definition or a compliance figure, the page says so, scoped to the page we actually looked at, and links to it. We do not estimate a competitor’s number on their behalf. An entry reading “not published” is a statement about disclosure and carries no implication about performance.
Their link earns them nothing, and hides nothing
Outbound links to other providers open in a new tab and carry rel="nofollow noopener". We do not pass ranking signal to a company we compete with, and we do not strip the link out either, because you should be able to go and read the source.
A competitor page is never evidence
The build gate in section 02 does not count a competitor domain as a source. A rival can be quoted for what it says about itself. It cannot be cited to prove a claim about the market.
A vendor-published comparison can be honest and still be an argument. The most it can offer is a stated method and links you can open yourself, which is what we try to give you. Compare it against a source that sells nothing before you act on it.
A tool is not a byline.
Research and drafting on this site use software assistance. Nothing publishes on that basis alone: every claim, figure and link on a page is checked by a person against the source it points at, and a board-certified radiologist on the panel reviews anything clinical before it goes live. Accountability for what is published sits with AstraRad.
This section is about how the website is written. It says nothing about how studies are read. Every report AstraRad delivers is read and signed by a board-certified radiologist, and that is described on how we work.
Check the numbers before you believe the pages.
Every AstraRad figure quoted anywhere on this site is defined, dated and explained in one table, with the measurement method next to it.