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Radiology Associates of Corpus Christi
Independent multi-site radiology practice
Corpus Christi, Texas
16 radiologists · 5 imaging centers
2-3 hrs
Saved per radiologist per shift
5
Imaging centers unified
16
Radiologists on New Lantern
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01 — The customer
Radiology Associates of Corpus Christi has served South Texas for more than 80 years. The independent practice runs five imaging centers across the Coastal Bend, with a board-certified team of 16 radiologists covering musculoskeletal, neuroradiology, women's imaging, abdominal imaging, and nuclear medicine and PET. They were the first and most experienced local provider of 3D mammography.
02 — The challenge
A fragmented workflow on aging infrastructure
The practice was running its reading workflow across separate systems for image viewing, dictation, and study management. Radiologists moved between disconnected tools to get through a case, tabbing through templates and free-dictating every report, which slowed reading and created constant maintenance work for IT. The legacy setup also sat on aging on-premise infrastructure that made expansion and modernization harder than it should have been.
The daily toll was physical, not just technical. Dr. Alexander Craft, a musculoskeletal radiologist and partner at the practice, describes years of neck pain from whipping his head across four monitors all day, and ending shifts mentally and physically drained. For a practice that had stayed independent for eight decades, the goal was to modernize the entire stack without disrupting the workflows radiologists rely on every day.
How can an 80-year independent radiology practice modernize its entire stack without disrupting the workflows radiologists depend on every day?
03 — Why New Lantern
One cloud-native platform, not a patchwork
Radiology Associates chose New Lantern to replace its fragmented setup with a single cloud-native platform: viewer, dictation, reporting, and worklist in one place. Two things made the difference.
First, New Lantern would move the practice's infrastructure to the cloud rather than forcing them to keep maintaining on-premise servers. Second, the AI-native reporting workflow, dictating only positive findings and letting the system fill the report and generate the impression, promised to cut the repetitive work radiologists did on every case.
The rollout
New Lantern migrated the practice from its on-premise setup to a cloud-native environment, carrying over the full history of prior images so nothing was lost. The team went live in 2025. Every radiologist moved onto the platform, reading across all five imaging centers from one unified workspace. With CT, MR, X-ray, and ultrasound live, the practice is now expanding to PET imaging on New Lantern.
04 — The outcomes
2 to 3 hours saved per shift
The clearest change is in the reporting workflow. Instead of tabbing through templates and free-dictating, radiologists now dictate only the positive findings into the Curie box as they scroll the case. One button on the microphone fills those findings into the body of the report and instantly generates the impression. New Lantern's OCR reads measurement worksheets for studies like calcium scoring, DEXA, and ultrasound and auto-populates the structured values and impressions before the radiologist even starts. Across a full day of reading, that adds up to 2 to 3 hours saved per shift.
Hanging protocols are reproducible and one-click to save, so each case loads the same way every time. By the time Dr. Craft finishes scrolling a study, the report is already assembled on his left. He checks it, signs with another button, and the next case is waiting. The automation lets radiologists spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time interpreting images and caring for patients.
Dr. Craft describes the platform as learning his way of working: his way of generating an impression, his way of synthesizing studies, so he isn't repeating the same steps a hundred thousand times a day. His shorthand for it is that it feels like cloning himself, one radiologist doing the work of two. His take for any group still reading without AI: they are leaving triple or quadruple efficiency gains on the table.
05 — In their words
"Not having to whip my head around all day allows me more time to spend looking at the images and taking care of the patients. I find myself describing what it feels like to work with New Lantern, and I would say it just feels lighter."
Dr. Alexander Craft
MSK Radiologist and Partner, Radiology Associates of Corpus Christi
06 — What’s next
Curious what New Lantern could do for your reading room? See how the platform replaces your worklist, viewer, and reporting tools with one workspace.
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