MWL savings calculator
Estimate the staff time and money a DICOM Modality Worklist gives back by eliminating manual patient entry at the modality.
Fully-loaded hourly cost of the staff doing patient entry.
Estimated impact
86.2
per month
Hours freed
5,170 minutes of manual entry removed
$36,190
per year
Estimated savings
$3,016/mo at $35/hr
66
per month
Errors prevented
Mismatched studies avoided with a worklist
88%
per exam
Less data entry
Fields pre-filled from the worklist
How this is calculated
Every estimate on this page comes from four inputs and industry-benchmark timings. No assumptions are hidden — here is the whole model.
- Exams per month
- 50/day × 22 working days
- Time saved per exam
- 88% of manual entry removed
- Manual-entry error rate
- Mismatched studies from a mistyped ID
- Time to fix an error
- PACS reconciliation + manual correction
- Loaded labor rate
- Fully-loaded cost of the staff keying data
Shareable report
“At 50 exams/day, a DICOM Modality Worklist frees roughly 86.2 staff hours a month and prevents about 66 data-entry errors — worth an estimated $36,190 a year at a $35/hr loaded labor rate.”
Added to the cover page of the exported PDF.
Estimates use industry-benchmark timings (≈88% entry reduction, ~6% manual-entry error rate) across 22 working days per month. Actual results depend on your modality mix and current workflow.
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