This SIIM-sponsored 2023 report highlights an industry view on artificial intelligence adoption barriers and success related to diagnostic imaging, life sciences, and contrasts. In general, our 2023 survey indicates that there has been progress in adopting AI across multiple uses, and there continues to be an optimistic forecast for the impact on workflow and clinical outcomes. This report, as in prior years, should be seen as a snapshot of the use of AI in imaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPreviously, the lack of a standard body part ontology has been identified as a critical deficiency needed to enable enterprise imaging. This whitepaper aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of anatomical ontologies with the aim of facilitating enterprise imaging. It offers an overview of the process undertaken by the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Society for Imaging Informatics in medicine (SIIM) Enterprise Imaging Community Data Standards Evaluation workgroup to assess the viability of existing ontologies for supporting cross-disciplinary medical imaging workflows.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs medical reimbursements continue to decline, increasing financial pressures are placed upon medical imaging providers. This burden is exacerbated by the existing radiologic technologist (RT) crisis, which has caused RT salaries to trend upward. One strategy to address these trends is employing technology to improve technologist productivity.
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