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The team are joined by Drs. Nabile Safdar and Omer Awan to talk about the role of informatics solutions in patient and trainee education. This is a recap of the guest session from SIIM 2022. Dr. Safdar is the Vice Chair of Imaging Informatics at Emory University School of Medicine, Associate CMIO for Emory Healthcare and is the Fellowship Director for their Imaging Informatics Fellowship. Dr. Awan...

In this episode, Ali, Jay and Mohannad interview Dr. Woojin Kim about his chapter on Reporting in the new edition of PII. Woojin Kim, MD, is Chief Medical Officer at Equium Intelligence, a start-up he co-founded in intelligent, data-driven resource management. He is also a musculoskeletal radiologist at the VA Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Kim was the Chief Medical Information Officer at the Healthcare Divis...

This is the second episode in the "Between Two Fellows" series, recorded live on stage at #SIIM22. Ali, Mohannad and Prasanth were joined by Adam Flanders and Chuck Kahn without any particular agenda. Please enjoy this free-wheeling discussion through the imaging informatics landscape. PS: Apologies for the less than optimal sound quality. This episode was taped live at the annual meeting and some...

A conversation with Kelvin Burton, Martha Henderson, and Graeme McKay from Mercy Ships, an international charity that operates the largest non-governmental ships in the world, providing aid including community health projects. The team discusses the informatics challenges that arise in such a unique environment. Kelvin Burton joined the IS team at Mercy Ships in East Texas in October 1990. He fill...

In this first episode in the "Between Two Fellows" series, Prasanth and Jason are joined by Don Dennison and Dr. Rick Wiggins to talk about the next breakthroughs in imaging informatics, lessons from their careers, the feature of machine learning for education, Don's plan for breaking down informatics silos and other streams of consciousness. PS: Apologies for the less than optimal sound quality....

In this episode, hosts Mohannad, Prasanth, and Ali interview Cheryl Kreider Carey (SIIM CEO), Dr. Marc Kohli (past SIIM Chair) and Dr. Tessa Cook (current SIIM Chair) to talk about the SIIM 2022 Annual Meeting, Expansion of SIIM in terms of geography and medical specialities, leadership transition at the Board Chair level, and other things. PS: Apologies for the less than optimal sound quality. Th...

In this episode, hosts Mohannad, Prasanth, and Jason interview Teri Sippel Schmidt and Dr. Raym Geis about the Clinical Data Informatics initiative at SIIM. At its heart Clinical Data Informatics focuses on the use of tools such as Machine Learning algorithms, systems engineering, and medical imaging in sophisticated ways to derive insights and drive decision making for both clinical and business...

In this episode, hosts Mohannad and Prasanth interview Brad Genereaux about his chapter on Standards and Interoperability in the new edition of PII. Going beyond the #alphabetsoup of the important standards that govern the imaging informatics world, the discussion covers a brief history of the development of standards, such as DICOM, HL7, IHE, and looks at how they shape the landscape of the Imagi...

In this episode, hosts @mohannadhussain and Prasanth chat with @sylviadevlin about downtime procedures. Whether planned or unplanned, there are many steps that can be taken to mitigate these (mostly) unavoidable events. While most agree that effective planning, monitoring, and communication/follow-up are key to successful execution, the nuances of how to optimize these can be challenging for even...

The hosts get together in this special season wrap-up episode and discuss the highlights of the season, as well as the upcoming SIIM22 Conference June 9-11 2022 in Kissimmee, Florida. Connect with us! You can find our podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or anywhere else you subscribe to podcasts. Please help us out by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can find us on Twitter:...

In this episode, hosts @mohannadhussain @jaynagels Prasanth and @AliTejaniMD interview @ChrisRothMD, @IntegratorBrad, and @_kodon, co-authors of the IHE AI Interoperability in Imaging White Paper. Chris Roth serves as Vice Chairman of Radiology, Information Technology and Clinical Informatics at Duke University, Director of Imaging IT Strategy at Duke Health where he is also associate professor of...

In this episode, hosts Prasanth, @mohannadhussain and @jaynagels discuss User Training with Dr. Ann Scherzinger. As a Professor of Radiology and Chief of the Radiological Sciences Division and the University of Colorado, Dr. Scherzinger supports informatics applications for the UCHealth system. She is currently the chair of the SIIM Education Committee. Previously she has served as the System Admi...

PIIRT Chapter 7 - Data Storage Jay Crawford In this episode, hosts Mohannad and Prasanth interview Jay Crawford about data storage technologies discussed in Chapter 7 of the second edition of PIIRT. These core concepts are critical for understanding not only issues of business continuity and disaster recovery, but also system performance, latency, and resource provisioning. The discussion covers s...

In this episode, hosts Ali, Mohannad, Jason, and Prasanth chat with Chris Hafey, Dr. Jason Hostetter, and Dr. Simon Rascovsky about the Imaging Informatics Open Community Meetups -- an open format meeting with short discussions on any topics related to Medical Imaging. Participants include software developers, clinicians, technologists and PACS administrators, researchers, and a "sprinkling" of ve...

Pathology Standards and Hackathon In this episode, host Mohannad chats with Jason Klotzer and Markus Herrmann about pathology imaging standards. The team discusses the unique perspective of digital pathology and how the specialty has adopted DICOM standards to meet the needs of the pathologist's imaging workflow, as well as a hackathon sponsored by the DPA and DICOM Workgroup 26. Jason Klotzer is...

PIIRT Chapter 5 - Incorporating Non-Image Data with Matthew Hayes In this episode, hosts Ali, Prasanth, and Mohannad speak with Matthew Hayes CIIP. Matt is currently the PACS Manager for Radiology Partners. Prior engagements had him troubleshooting many different imaging challenges ranging from AI enablement, Encounters Based Imaging, Long Term Archiving, Cardiology, Radiology, and Pathology. The...

In this episode, hosts Mohannad, Prasanth and Jason catch up with Bernard "Ben" Gyimah from Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital @KBTH_GH in Accra Ghana, site of the Global Ambassador program sponsored by @SIIM_Tweets and @RADAIDIntl. Last we heard Ben and Jason discuss the implementation of a PACS upgrade and RIS implementation with @IBMWatsonHealth. Fast-forwarding almost 3 years since our last meetup, Be...

ACR DSI In this episode, hosts Prasanth, Mohannad, and Ali chat with the amazing team at the ACR Data Science Institute, @AcrDsi @RadiologyACR, represented by data scientists Laura Brink and Kendall Schmidt, and director Christopher Treml. Hot topics: Federated Learning with AI-LAB™ Interpretive and noninterpretive AI models and applications Getting started in ML There are additional resources ava...

RSNA 2021 Recap In this episode, hosts @mohannadhussain Prasanth and @AliTejaniMD chat with @hermanoos about the recent RSNA Conference. Connect with us! You can find our podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or anywhere else you subscribe to podcasts. Please help us out by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can find us on Twitter: @SIIM_Tweets, and individually at @mohannadhus...

In this episode, hosts Prasanth and @jaynagles interview @auff0001 primary author of the first chapter in the second edition of Pracitcal Imaging Informatics. Dr. Auffermann, is an associate Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Drawing from his background in the physical sciences to translate basic concepts of medical imaging and the strategies...

AI Racial Identification In this episode, hosts Prasanth and Mohannad interview @judywawira (Emory University), Chima Okechukwu (GeorgiaTech) @BrandonPriceRad (FSU College of Medicine) and Anthony Celi (MIT laboratory for Computational Physiology) as they discuss a groundbreaking paper they published earlier this year, in which they demonstrate how shockingly accurate machine learning systems can...

Integrated Imaging Informatics (I3) In this episode, hosts Prasanth, Mohannad, and Jason speak with guests, Dr. Tessa Cook (@asset25) and Bradley Davis about the development of the I3 curriculum. In addition to discussing the role of the I3 curriculum in relation to the NIC-Rad and an imaging informatics fellowship, Brad and Tessa take us on a riveting journey through the various iterations and gi...

CMIO In this episode, hosts Prasanth, Arjun, and Mohannad speak with 4 physicians currently serving as Chief Medical Informatics Officers, Drs. @julie_hollberg, Jeffrey Sunshine, @ChrisRothMD, and @nsafdar. Hear about the interesting journeys they have taken leading to their current roles, the skills they have cultivated to champion informatics initiatives, and exciting new directions they have fo...

Season 04 Wrap Up In this episode, co-hosts @mohannadhussain, @jaynagels, @AAnandMD, Prasanth , and @arjunsharmarad assemble to celebrate the end of another exciting season. They discuss the growth of SIIMCast, the annual virtual conference, the evolving role of the imaging informaticist during a global pandemic, and exploring informatics opportunities in the middle east. We also wish Arjun well a...

In this episode, hosts Jason, Mohannad, and Prasanth interview Herman Oosterwijk a giant in the field of imaging informatics. Serving as president of Otech, Herman has extensive experience implementing health care imaging and IT solutions in Electronic Health Records (EHR) and DICOM Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) for more than 30 years. First delving into medical systems as an...