Medical imaging is crucial for thirty percent of diagnoses, but two-thirds of the world lacks access to radiology.

Source: World Health Organization

HRD Corps is assisting in the resolution of this issue by delivering education and medical equipment to underserved communities all around the world.

 

“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people” -Maya Angelou

Humanitarian Radiology Development Corps is a 501(c)3 charity organization based in the United States. HRD Corps' mission statement is to build self-sustaining improvements in healthcare in poor regions of the world through our expertise and resources in radiology.

What We Do

  • Education

    We provide free lectures and seminars to attending doctors, residence, and technologists. We also provide free hands-on ultrasound training.

  • Program Development

    We help build self-sustainable clinical services caring for underserved populations. Our help includes providing: quality guidelines, financial models for sustainable operation, supply chain access, maintenance programs, sourcing of equipment, overall program design and implementation. We help our clients build the full Value Stream Map of a clinical service.

  • Capacity Development

    We have deep expertise working in low income and middle income countries, each presents unique and complex challenges. With our local partners, we help design and implement the multi-phase radiology development projects that lead to self-sustainable increased healthcare capacity.

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Five Minutes in Healthcare:

Philip Jacobus, CEO and founder of DOTmed.com and publisher of HealthCare Business News, interviews our founder Dr. Berndt Schmit, a radiologist in Tucson, Arizona. He chats about how HRD brings ultrasound technology to different countries around the world, the unique needs of different locations, a rural mobile outreach breast cancer screening program in Bolivia, and the over-arching challenges in keeping legacy equipment operational in places with limited resources.

 

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