What counts in your operation
Work your IT and clinical teams already do- Interface developmentCustom interfaces that move orders, results, and images between systems.
- Patient engagement rolloutFitting a mobile intake app to your workflow and fixing what fails in the field.
- Billing integrationBuilding a custom archive-to-billing link when no product did it.
- Cloud imaging platformDesigning how storage and reading run on a new cloud platform when nobody knew it would hold up under load.
- AI tool brokeringBuilding the feedback loop that tests an outside AI tool against your own reads.
- Mobile imagingMaking the same protocol and systems work on a mobile unit as at a fixed site.
The four questions, for imaging operations
§41's four-part test- Did you build a platform, interface, or workflow new to your organization?It doesn't have to be new to healthcare.
- Did it take real know-how?Integrations rest on computer science; your protocols on biology and imaging physics.
- Were you unsure at the start?Will the interface pass every patient record cleanly? Will the archive keep up at your volume?
- Did you try options to find out?Testing interface designs until uploads worked can be exactly that.
Unsure about any of these? That's what the call is for. The four-part test in plain English
Imaging operators ask
Our vendor did the integration. Can it still count?
Part of what you paid U.S. vendors can count when you kept rights to the work, and your staff's testing time can count too.
A project took most of a year and still isn't right. Does that count?
It can. Testing options to solve a real technical unknown counts. Fixing bugs after go-live usually doesn't. Your IT team already knew that.
Does software we build for our own use qualify?
It can. Internal-use software faces an extra test on innovation and risk, and the study applies it honestly.
We're opening new locations. Does expansion count?
Opening a site isn't research by itself. Standing up new technology or a new workflow there can be.
We haven't opened yet. Is it too early to talk?
No. Start keeping records now: what your reading software flags, what you change, what the reports show. The credit pays off once you owe tax, and the study can cover the years you spent building.
Does AI software that helps read scans count?
It can. Setting it up so your radiologists find problems faster, and testing whether the reads hold up, is the work that counts. Buying a license and switching it on isn't.
Our radiologists work through their own medical corporation. Does their time count?
Part of what you pay them can, when your company pays for the work and keeps what it produces. Their time testing new protocols and tools is the part we look at.
Filing, how far back, exams, and costs: common questions.
For your CPA: where the credit goes on Form 1120, 1120-S, 1065, or 1040.
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