Employing a Nudge: Designing a Partially Automated Workflow to Solve the “Plain Film Problem”

After a recent community expansion, our academic tertiary care institution saw a 17% increase in imaging volumes between 2016 and 2018. Weekday daytime radiographs contributed the most, with radiograph volume increasing 22%, compared with 12% to 13% for ultrasound, CT, and MR. With this, faculty reported feeling overloaded, which was locally referred to as the “plain-film...