Changes in All Directions: Radiologists Discuss the Present, Future of Radiology Practice

摘要

On September 30, the editors at Healthcare Innovation presented Healthcare Imaging Virtual Day, a day on which radiologist, imaging informatics, and radiology business leaders from across the U.S. and Canada gathered together virtually to discuss the present and future state of the radiology profession and of imaging informatics. In the final panel discussion of the day, Healthcare Innovation Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland gathered together five national leaders among radiologists for a discussion around "The Changing Landscape Around Radiology Practice- the Radiologists' Perspective." He was joined by Cheryl Petersilge, M.D., a mus-culoskeletal radiologist and a consultant with her firm, Vidagos (Cleveland); Alex Towbin, M.D., associate chief for clinical operations and informatics, and the Neil D. Johnson Chair in Radiology Informatics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Eliot Siegel, M.D., professor and vice chair in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore); Gary Wendt, M.D., chair of informatics and professor of radiology, and enterprise director of medical imaging, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW Hospitals and Clinics; and Max Rosen, M.D., chair of radiology at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.