In healthcare IT, true “quick wins” are rare. Major digital transformations require long planning cycles, cross-team alignment, rigorous testing, and months or years before benefits reach the point of care. But every now and then, a solution emerges that offers organizations something faster…a quicker-than-normal win. Not instant, and certainly not effortless, but a tangible and meaningful improvement that frontline teams can feel soon after go-live.
For many organizations, that solution has been Verisound™ Fleet. It can deliver gains in ultrasound efficiency, standardization, and equipment oversight sooner than many IT initiatives allow.
What is Verisound Fleet?
Verisound Fleet is a cloud-based platform that centralizes how organizations manage their ultrasound systems. By bringing all devices into a single digital environment, Verisound Fleet enables IT, biomedical engineering and health technology management, and ultrasound operations teams to remotely apply protocol updates and maintain configurations.
At its core, Verisound Fleet simplifies ultrasound governance. Teams can manage protocols, restore from a backup, and monitor probe connectivity from one place, allowing devices to stay aligned and up to date with significantly less manual effort.
Because Verisound Fleet is cloud-based and does not handle PHI, organizations often begin experiencing its benefits shortly after deployment. And as additional devices come online, the same tools extend naturally across departments and sites, allowing improvements to scale without reinventing workflows.
Ultrasound efficiency: from hours to minutes
Protocol updates are one of the clearest examples of Verisound Fleet’s near-term impact on ultrasound efficiency.
Traditionally, updating ultrasound protocols required ultrasound specialists to travel to each console and make changes manually. That process involves coordinating access to the device, waiting for it to be free between exams, logging in, uploading and validating files, documenting changes, and troubleshooting inconsistencies. Across a large health system, those steps can quickly compound. In one real-world example, the total time required to apply one new configuration to a fleet of ultrasound devices was 15 hours.
Case Study: St. Luke's University Health Network maximizes ultrasound resource management
Protocol updates have also historically competed with clinical use. Devices often need to be updated during limited windows of availability, increasing the risk of workflow disruption or delayed care.
As described in “From 15 Hours to 7 minutes: Do the math on your ultrasound protocols,” Verisound Fleet condenses this process into a single remote action. With Verisound Fleet, an organization can deploy a standardized protocol update across the entire ultrasound fleet in about seven minutes, without requiring on-site visits. This approach helps preserve availability, too. Sonographers receive a notification on their console and can accept the update when the system is not in use
The impact extends beyond time savings. When updates are easier to deploy, they can be made more frequently and with greater confidence. Sonographers are less likely to work from outdated protocols and can suggest refinements more readily. Radiologists can request updates to reporting templates and see those changes reflected across the fleet and see those changes reflected across the fleet much sooner. New systems and new staff can be brought into alignment in hours rather than weeks.
Moving the needle on standardization
Standardization remains one of ultrasound’s most persistent operational challenges. Even within a single enterprise, variations in protocols, exam order, and workflow settings can slow reporting, complicate training, and introduce unnecessary variability.
As explained in “How SLUHN standardized ultrasound across its enterprise,” St. Luke’s University Health Network addressed this challenge by combining Verisound Fleet with Scan Assist on their LOGIQTM devices. Scan Assistant standardizes image acquisition by guiding sonographers through preset protocols; Verisound Fleet makes it possible to deploy this clinical solution system-wide.
The results were quickly apparent. Sonographers could float between sites with less friction, new hires ramped faster, and radiologists received images and reports with a consistent structure and presentation.
Progress toward ultrasound efficiency that doesn’t have to wait
True quick wins in healthcare IT are still the exception, not the rule. But when improvements arrive sooner than expected, scale without adding complexity, and reduce friction in everyday work, they can meaningfully change how progress feels to frontline teams. Verisound Fleet fits into that category. It is a practical step that delivers value early while supporting longer-term goals.
By making protocol updates, configuration management, and standardization easier to sustain, Verisound Fleet helps organizations move forward without waiting for a multi-year initiative to run its course. In a field where momentum is often hard-won, that kind of quicker-than-normal win can make a real difference in how ultrasound programs evolve over time.
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