Debate portends radiology's shift from clinical to informatics-based

July 1, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Debate portends radiology's shift from clinical to informatics-based John C. Hayes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some time in the not-too-distant future, your radiology department may report to the hospital's chief information officer. A drastic change? You bet, but the pediction was in tune with a strong undercurrent at the May Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine meeting in Seattle. From the plenary and scientific sessions to the educational presentations and hot topic debates and roundtable breakfasts, a sense that radiology is becoming as much an information discipline as a clinical one permeated the conference. Although radiology's product is still fundamentally clinical, these clinical data need to be shared with others in the healthcare enterprise more effectively, the argument goes. Making that happen requires informatics skills that bring radiology more in step with other medical specialties that are seeking to join the digital revolution.

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