Meaningful IT Innovation to Support the Radiology Value Proposition
**THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE**
The Department of Radiology and UK HealthCare Information Technology are pleased to host a visiting professor, Dr. Paul Chang, of the University of Chicago. He will be addressing the College of Medicine faculty and staff regarding "Meaningful IT Innovation to Support the Radiology Value Proposition: The Return of the “Doctor’s Doctor.”
Radiology practices have benefited from the adoption of electronic-based information technology, especially with respect to practice efficiency. However, electronic tools, such as PACs, RIS, and speech recognition (along with their associated workflow), are still relatively immature and arguably support only “commodity-level” capability. Accordingly, these technologies can and have been exploited to commoditize and “outsource” radiology services.
Radiology must redefine and re-engineer itself in order to fully take advantage of next generation electronic based practice tools. This “meaningful innovation” in radiology IT will allow radiology to maximize value to patients and other stakeholders.
In this session, Dr. Chang will explore how changes in practice management can impact quality, workflow efficiency, and productivity. He will also share strategies on how to avoid marginalization and commoditization in addition to sharing examples of next generation IT tools and models that can help differentiate radiologists as value innovators rather than commodity-level service providers.
Lecture Details
- Date: Tuesday, June 9
- Time: 12 p.m.
- Place: Wethington Building (CTW) 014
About Dr. Chang
Dr. Chang is Professor and Vice-Chairman of Radiology Informatics. Dr. Chang is also Medical Director of Enterprise Imaging and the Informatics Architect for the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
He is active in numerous research and development projects related to imaging informatics as well as enterprise-wide informatics integration issues. He is a recognized expert in the field of imaging informatics.
In 2002, he was named as one of the “Top 20 Most Influential People in Radiology” by Diagnostic Imaging. In 2005, he was inducted as a Fellow to the College of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR/SIIM). In 2010, he was named as one of the “25 Most Influential People in Imaging” by RT Image.