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Getting prepared for the biggest event in imaging informatics

by Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | June 04, 2021
Health IT X-Ray
From the May 2021 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


HCB News: When we spoke in 2019, you described some of the fundamental hurdles preventing interoperability between imaging and EHRs. Has there been any meaningful progress on that front?
CR: The answer to that is yes — but it’s been heterogeneous. The EHRs are good at what they do, but they need to account for all different kinds of people asking for things. So the way the EHRs do it is that they get a bunch of thought leadership together, they ask us to prioritize, ask what the most important things are we should be working with and why that is and really try to understand. There has been quite a bit of progress over the last year in telehealth and providing patients their information because of the 21st Century Cures Act. At my site and some others we’ve had our images available in the EHR portal for about two years and patients are starting to engage in it. Are there still some major hurdles? Of course. There are still big disconnects in integrating visible light imaging and video in the EHR especially. There’s always more interest than there is the ability to make things happen. It takes a while to develop things and deploy them.

HCB News: The annual meeting will be all virtual this year?
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CR: It will be. One of SIIM’s important strategic planning efforts is around globalizing. One of the things people will see this year is a SIIM Global Track. It will be thought leadership in six different locations from around the world bringing leadership from their geographic area into SIIM to lecture. There will probably be four sessions in the morning before SIIM “starts” and two after. The areas are South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Australia and Asia. We have started collaborating with expert leads in those areas to identify the right content, the right presenters and we believe it will really extend the great network and culture that SIIM has to bring people together around imaging informatics.

The second big thing you should know is that it will be a four day meeting, May 24th to the 27th. The theme for the meeting is “Connecting without Boundaries.” Day two will be unique. One thing I’ve learned over my years with SIIM is that the industry partners we have can be terrific sources of best practices and innovation. It will be users and industry innovating together. It’s going to be connecting the user community with non-salesy, curated industry education, the latest technologies, people who can help the frontline folks like myself solve the problems they are facing. It’s going to be very heavily devoted toward industry partnerships and bringing the network of SIIM into the really rich educational world of industry.

HCB News: Are there any sessions you’re particularly excited about?
CR: With the four day meeting we will have four keynotes, once each day. I’m especially excited about the day four Dwyer Lecture which will be Adam Flanders. Adam is a legend in the imaging community and a very engaging speaker. On day two, we’re going to have a keynote session by Jonathan Rothberg who is an entrepreneur, a tech and imaging founder and also an engaging speaker who comes from Yale. He’s going to have really a lot of great things to lead us off on a day when we’re trying to bring together clinicians and hospital imaging informatics professionals to connect with industry. Hal Wolf, the CEO of HIMSS, will speak to us on day three. HIMSS has been a terrific partner for SIIM through the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community. Our day one kickoff keynote is Kimberly Manning, who serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine as well as the Associate Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Finally I’d like to plug SIIM’s new AI Call for Models effort. SIIM is looking to take in AI models, vet them and solve the problem of reproducibility of data between sites. Ultimately data sharing and AI model sharing between institutions remains a challenge and SIIM is looking to host the conversation and sharing of those best practices.

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