Vickie Bedel reflects on a personal journey into healthcare, from early experiences as a patient to helping shape the future of medical imaging today. This video explores how technology, clinical insight, and compassion can work together to improve the patient experience. From supporting radiologists and technologists with AI tools to making imaging more comfortable, accessible, and affordable, the focus remains the same: keeping care human. It’s also a look at the people behind the work, the importance of mentorship, and the culture of innovation that continues to move radiology forward at RadNet. Learn more about RadNet and how we’re helping advance imaging with patient-centered innovation at RadNet.com.
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00:01 — I always had an interest in health care. My mom was a nurse, and at one point I thought I would be a nurse. But on a personal note, as a youngster, I went and had open heart surgery. And as a result of that pre-planning and post-surgery, I had thousands of chest x-rays. At one point I thought I would go into a medical technologist. I never knew this is where it would lead me.
00:28 — We're a family. And imaging, and even health care in general, is an amazing career. It's very rewarding. Many high school students and young adults that we meet through the various programs, I really ask them to put on a lab coat and spend the day with us. And many, many times, more than not, these individuals now are professionals within our organization.
00:54 — I combine the hands-on clinical with solutions that the DeepHealth team brings to RadNet. And we operationalize them. We make them real. We make them work. And at the end of the day, we're all focused on making the patient's experience with their imaging procedure more comfortable, more accessible, and more affordable.
01:18 — We're fast to implement because we know what will benefit our patients the best. We make decisions on the data that we have today. And if changes are needed, we make them also.
01:30 — AI is benefiting imaging today, in the world of radiology, by really providing assistance to all roles. Starting with radiologists assisting in their reads. It assists our technologists in making them more efficient. They can spend more time with the patients, so they're focused on what they're trained to be and what they love to do.
01:52 — There is no other leader in radiology imaging leading health care forward with the technology that we're providing to our patients than RadNet.
02:02 — Dr. Berger and RadNet, and all the leaders of RadNet, I say time and time again, have changed my life. Both personally and professionally. I leave every single day humbled to work with the team that cares this much about each other, but more importantly, about the people that we serve. And that's our patients.