Monthly Archives: April 2015

Is Radiology Ready for The Cloud?

Taking radiology to the cloud is not a new concept. It has already been discussed here and here, with lowest hanging fruit use-case being cross-institutional image sharing.

The excitement for cloud is certainly abuzz in the non-healthcare market. Several days ago, @TheEconomist tweeted a message ending with “the whole IT business will change.” They were referring to the maturing migration of technology into the cloud.

What caught my eye was not the tweet itself, but the accompanying graphic, illustrated by Satoshi Kambayashi.

From @TheEconomist. Copyright belongs to illustrator

A winged piggy bank with the General Electric logo receives a boot in the loin, eyes wide open with surprise as if he didn’t see it coming at all. General Electric, of course, is one of the biggest vendors in radiology hardware.

So are radiology practices ready to kick GE, too?

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Robots and Radiologists

In an article titled “The Robot as Radiologist,” Dr. Douglas Green from Univ. of Washington acknowledges the rapid advances in computational image recognition and advent of IBM’s Watson.  He concludes the commentary by taking solace in the fact that, at least for the time being, artificial intelligence is complementary rather than substitutional to human radiologists.  I wholeheartedly agree.  However, Harvard Business Schools gurus do not.

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