The service
What Oxcardio does
What is cardiac MRI tele-reporting?
A specialist in cardiac imaging interprets your cardiac MRI scans remotely and returns a written subspecialist report to your institution.
Oxcardio is a UK-based cardiac MRI tele-reporting service, providing Level 3 CMR and cardiac CT reporting to hospitals in the UK and internationally.
Who reports our scans?
A Level 3 accredited cardiac imaging specialist, personally. Our reporting team includes both cardiologists and radiologists subspecialised in cardiac imaging.
That mix matters. Cardiology brings the clinical context around a finding, radiology brings assessment of the whole field of view, and cardiac imaging needs both.
Oxcardio is a small specialist practice, not a volume reporting service, so cases are not delegated down a reporting chain.
Your institution has a named clinical contact and direct access to the reporting clinician if questions arise.
What accreditations do your reporting specialists hold?
Every clinician reporting for Oxcardio is fully accredited in cardiac imaging to Level 3, the highest competency tier. Accreditations across the team are held with:
- SCMR, the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- EACVI, the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
- BSCI, the British Society of Cardiac Imaging
All reporting clinicians trained at leading UK academic centres including Oxford and London.
Which studies do you report?
The full spectrum of cardiac MRI and cardiac CT.
CMR covers ventricular function, late gadolinium enhancement, stress perfusion, cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, cardiac masses, congenital heart disease and flow quantification.
Cardiac CT covers CTCA and CAD-RADS, calcium scoring, coronary anomalies, structural heart and TAVI planning, pre-ablation pulmonary vein CT and the thoracic aorta.
Turnaround and reporting
How reports are delivered
What is the turnaround time for cardiac MRI reports?
A 24-hour turnaround is available for routine CMR and cardiac CT reporting, measured from scan receipt.
The turnaround that applies to your institution is agreed at onboarding and depends on case complexity, volume and the service level in place. Expert second opinion reviews are typically returned within 24-48 hours.
Can you report to our own template?
Yes. Reports follow international structured templates as standard, aligned to SCMR and SCCT reporting standards, and the template used for your institution is agreed before go-live.
Quantitative data, measurements and clinical recommendations are presented in a consistent format your clinicians can read at a glance.
What happens if a scan shows an urgent finding?
Unexpected or urgent findings need a clear route back to your local clinical team, so escalation contacts and expectations are agreed as part of the service specification before reporting starts.
Urgent and semi-urgent pathways can be arranged for time-critical cases.
What if our clinicians have a query about a report?
You can speak to the clinician who reported the case, not a call centre.
Clinical queries, addenda, discrepancy review and complaint handling run through a process agreed with your institution at onboarding.
Getting set up
Onboarding your institution
What does onboarding involve?
Onboarding runs in five stages:
- An introductory call
- Technical scoping of your scanner and systems
- Setting up the transfer route
- Test cases and reporting
- Review, then go-live
How long it takes depends mostly on your own IT and information governance approval, so we scope it with your team rather than quoting a fixed timeline.
How do scans reach you?
Over an encrypted connection between your facility and our UK reporting environment.
The exact route is scoped with your IT team at onboarding and may include encrypted DICOM routing, a VPN-supported pathway or another method your institution approves. We work through that setup with you.
Will this disrupt our existing systems?
The service is designed to sit alongside your current radiology workflow rather than replace it.
Report format and delivery destination are agreed with your institution at scoping. Delivery into your existing PACS or RIS can be discussed where your systems support it.
Can we trial the service before committing?
Yes. We can begin with a pilot: a limited, agreed piece of work so your clinical, radiology and IT teams can assess the service before any longer-term arrangement.
The scope, service line and report template are agreed with you beforehand, and we review how it went together at the end.
Governance and data
Clinical responsibility and information governance
Who is clinically responsible for the report?
Reporter credentials, signing responsibility, escalation contacts and reporting cover arrangements are confirmed with your institution before go-live, and recorded in the service specification.
Oxcardio provides the subspecialist interpretation. Patient management remains with the referring clinical team.
What happens to our images after reporting?
Retention periods, report copies and deletion expectations are agreed with each partner institution and reflected in onboarding documentation.
Access to imaging data is limited to the authorised reporting clinicians and the support needed for the agreed service.
What documentation can you provide for our governance review?
We can share service and data-protection documentation for your institution's governance review, including a data processing agreement.
What is relevant differs from site to site, so we discuss it with your team rather than working from a fixed list.
Commercial
Volume and pricing
How is pricing structured?
Pricing is structured around your case volume, service mix and turnaround requirements. Per-study, bundled and retained-capacity arrangements are all possible.
We scope this with you before a pilot, so the commercial model matches how your service actually runs.
Is there a minimum volume?
Volumes are agreed with each institution rather than set as a blanket minimum, and pilots run at an agreed case volume.
Oxcardio works with a limited number of partner institutions so that reporting capacity always matches the commitments in place.
