Physician-owned teleradiology
The right read,
right now.
Calliope delivers subspecialty final reads for hospitals, imaging centers, and private groups — nights, weekends, and every hour between.
60+ board-certified radiologists across 9 subspecialties.
HIPAA compliant · SOC 2 Type II
DOE^JANE · F/58
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Demonstration viewer with a stylized image. The real thing is considerably more boring-looking and considerably more useful.
What we do
Four things. Done obsessively.
We deliberately do less than the mega-groups. What we do, a physician-owned bench does nightly — and signs its name to.
Emergency & overnight
Prelims on strokes, fractures, and lines in minutes — with critical findings called in, not buried in a report.
Subspecialty finals
Studies route to the right fellowship-trained reader automatically. Every MRI brain goes to a neuroradiologist. Every time.
Structured reporting
Clear, consistent, clinically useful reports. Findings land where your team expects them, shift after shift.
Quality & peer review
Double-read QA on a fixed share of studies, with monthly concordance scoring shared openly with partners.
Our mark
Every study gets the red dot.
In reading rooms going back decades, a red sticker on a film meant someone had looked — really looked — and flagged what mattered. We took that idea and made it our promise.
Coverage
Somewhere, it's 3 a.m.
Teleradiology is a night job wearing a day job's clothes. The dark part of this bar is when you need us most — it's also when we're most awake.
Full subspecialty coverage, every hour of every day.
Word travels at 2 a.m.
Our ED attendings stopped saying "telerad can't be trusted" about six weeks in. Now they ask for Calliope by name.
Turnaround we never achieved in a decade of in-house recruiting. And reports that read like someone actually looked.
Onboarding
Need coverage tonight?
Most groups are connected and reading within 48 hours. Emergencies move faster — ask us how much faster.
About us
Built by radiologists,
for the 3 a.m.
Calliope began in 2016, in a borrowed conference room in Cleveland, with three radiologists, one PACS server, and a shared complaint: the night shift was being read by whoever was cheapest, not whoever was best.
We're physician-owned. Sixty-plus board-certified radiologists. We still argue about report formatting. The difference between us and the venture-backed shops is that when we say "quality first," it's our own names on the reports — and our names on the phone call at 3 a.m. when something needs saying out loud.
The name? A calliope is the steam organ you hear from three counties away at a circus — impossible to ignore, cheerful under pressure. We found that fitting for a group whose whole job is staying loud and awake while everything else goes quiet.
Annual all-hands, 2024. Attendance mandatory. Noses optional, but strongly encouraged.
Our mission
Behind every image is a person waiting on an answer. We exist to make the wait short and the answer trustworthy.
Teleradiology earned its mixed reputation honestly: volume-first shops, anonymous reads, reports that read like they were generated by a very tired machine. We started Calliope to prove the model itself was never the problem.
Physician ownership, subspecialty routing, and a bench that treats the night shift as a craft rather than a punishment — that's the whole method. It turns out that when radiologists own the group, the 3 a.m. read looks suspiciously like the 3 p.m. read. Just with more coffee.
Fast, never rushed
Our speed comes from preparation and routing — never from skipping the image.
Said out loud
Critical findings are called and confirmed. A phone call is part of the read.
Own the night
The hardest hours get our strongest readers, not our cheapest.
The fine print of our character
What we'll never do.
- Never let a study sit unread for a billing cycle. Volumes flex; the standard doesn't.
- Never hide our quality numbers from partners. Concordance goes out monthly, asked for or not.
- Never lock a facility into a contract it can't leave. We'd rather be kept by performance.
- Never ask a radiologist to read outside their training. Route by fellowship, not by availability.
Leadership
Physician-owned means
physicians in charge.
No private-equity steering committee. Six partners, one shared office (remote, obviously), and a standing rule that anyone who makes a clinical decision for a business reason buys lunch for the whole group.
Dr. Marcus Feldstein, MD, MBA
Body-imaging trained and business fluent, Marcus spent eleven years as vice chair of operations at an academic medical center before deciding the night shift deserved better logistics. He still reads one STAT queue every quarter, personally — usually at 2 a.m., usually in full regalia.
Dr. Harriet Brundle, MD, FACR
Neuroradiologist and the conscience of the group. Built our double-read QA program and still reads three night shifts a month so she never forgets what the work feels like.
Dr. Priya Raghunathan, MD
Breast imagers notice everything; Priya notices slightly more. She owns our concordance metrics and publishes them to partners monthly, whether anyone asks or not.
Seymour Kobayashi, MS
Wrote the routing engine that sends every study to the right subspecialist — and the failover that kicks in when it can't. Believes latency is a moral failing.
Agatha Voss, CPA
Keeps the lights on and the invoices honest. Agatha insisted we never bill a partner for a study we didn't read. It's in the founding documents, in her handwriting.
Dr. Eduardo Montoya, MD
Emergency radiologist who genuinely prefers nights. Runs the 7-on/7-off night bench, the handoff rituals, and the most reliable 3 a.m. callback line in the business.
Careers
Serious medicine.
Seriously unserious people.
We're a bench of careful diagnosticians who long ago made peace with not being serious people. The work is rigorous; the meetings are short; the noses are, on occasion, red.
- 100% remote. Read from anywhere with 100 Mbps and two monitors.
- W-2 or 1099 — your choice, same rates.
- Malpractice covered, tail included.
- We pay for licensure and credentialing.
- $4,000 annual CME allowance.
- No non-competes. Ever. It's in writing.
- Profit-sharing for W-2 readers.
- Equipment stipend and home-office setup.
- Real schedules — blocks you pick, nights you trade.
- Best handoff documentation in the business. Ask around.
Open roles
Own the night bench: strokes, trauma, and the occasional 4 a.m. fascinating weirdness. Fellowship-trained neuro required. Roughly 50–60 studies per shift with night differentials and a handoff culture people actually trust.
- Stroke and trauma pipeline with dedicated channels
- Cross-cover by two other neuro-trained readers, always
- All state licenses funded and maintained by us
MR-heavy weekend blocks for a large orthopedic alliance. You read knees and shoulders; your weekdays belong entirely to you. Volume is capped per shift — we mean it.
- Structured MSK templates you'll help refine
- Dedicated tech-to-reader messaging line
- Guaranteed block, not a floating queue
ED prelims and inpatient work during the evening surge — the shift where hospitals quietly fall apart if it's not covered well. Ours is covered well.
- Mixed modalities, acuity-weighted comp
- Critical-findings call protocol with admin backing
- Pathway to the night bench if nights are your calling
DICOM routing, HL7 interfaces, and hospital go-lives. You'll work directly with Seymour, whose code reviews are famously strict and famously fair.
- DICOM + HL7 v2 + IHE workflow experience
- Go-live travel optional, compensated generously
- On-call rotation is humane — we wrote it that way
Run the concordance program end to end: sampling, scoring, coaching, and the monthly partner report. Radiologist or clinically trained QA specialist considered.
- Own the metric the whole group is judged by
- Protected authority to flag anyone, including partners
- Presents quarterly to the full physician bench
Hiring process
Hello to first read in under three weeks.
For providers
Coverage that
holds the night.
Speed you can staff around
Median 15-minute STAT prelims, criticals called within five minutes of verification. Your ED can build workflows on numbers that hold.
Subspecialty by default
Not an upsell, not a "premium tier." Routing by fellowship is how the pipeline is built, because it's how medicine works.
Integration that respects your IT team
DICOM push, HL7 results, and zero-footprint viewing. Most groups connect in days, not quarters — without a single committee meeting about it.
How it works
Median door-to-final for emergent studies — strokes, cord, PE, dissection. Critical findings verified and called within five minutes.
95th percentile: 32 minIntegration
Plays nicely with your infrastructure.
Whatever you're running, we've probably shaken hands with it. Our integration engineers do the lifting; your IT team gets a single contact and a go-live date.
The night desk, right now.
The night desk never closes — 24/7/365, including the holiday you're thinking of.
Ready when your RFP is.
Coverage quotes in one business day. Usually sooner. It's a slow day somewhere.
For radiologists
Read great studies.
Keep your life.
Your schedule, actually yours
Pick your blocks, trade your nights, keep your Tuesdays. No surprise volume dumps, no "quick favors" at 11 p.m.
Fair, transparent comp
Per-study rates with acuity and night differentials — and you see the same numbers we do. No black-box multipliers.
Subspecialty work
Studies route to your training, not to whoever happens to be idle. Your MR brains go to you, the neuro person.
Zero non-competes
We'd rather keep you with good work and good handoffs than with a contract. So far, it's working out.
Sketch your week
Build a schedule. See the math.
Toggle shifts to model a typical week. Illustrative only — actual comp depends on study mix and complexity — but the shape is honest.
Requirements
The short, reasonable list.
- ABR certified or eligible, with an active (or obtainable) license — we fund the process.
- Fellowship training valued for neuro, MSK, and breast lanes.
- A dedicated reading environment — specifics sent after the intro call.
- Comfort with structured templates — which you'll help improve, not just obey.
A note from Honks.
"I've worked at three teleradiology companies. This is the first one where nobody has ever asked me to read faster. They asked me to read better, and then made sure I could."
Contact
Say hello.
Or say 2 a.m.
- Headquarters1420 Prospect Ave E, Suite 400
Cleveland, OH 44115 - Phone(216) 555-0140 — rings a human, always
- Hours24 / 7 / 365. Including that holiday you're thinking of.