Information Technology - Radiology's New 'High Ground'

摘要

Perhaps the most important trend in the practice of radiology is the move outside the traditional bricks-and-mortar setting, as practices break the conventional mold by transitioning from the "sneakernet" to the Internet. The question is "Why?" In certain venues there have been a lot of discussions focusing on disruptive technology and, while that is certainly a factor, in many ways we are simply experiencing incremental improvements of two previous "new technologies"-digital imagery and the Internet. In his book, The Innovator's Dilemma-When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, author Clayton Christensen describes this as the normal progression of sustaining technologies.