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Welcome
Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD
Chair, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Health System |
Bradley J. Erickson, MD, PhD
Chair, SIIM Annual Meeting Program Committee
Mayo Clinic, Rochester |
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Keynote Speaker:
Ronald L. Arenson, MD
Chairman, Department of Radiology
Alexander R. Margulis Distinguished Professor of Radiology
University of California, San Francisco
Building Bridges:
Centralized versus Distributed Health Information Systems in
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Dr. Ron Arenson is an expert in radiology informatics, workforce
issues, and the effect of managed care on radiology. He is a
founder of RISC (the Radiology Information
System Consortium) that evolved into SCAR and then SIIM. He is one of the original seven
inductees into the
College of SIIM/SCAR Fellows (COSF). This high honor recognizes
significant achievements that place an individual at the pinnacle of
experts in computer applications in radiology.
In his keynote presentation, Dr. Arenson will address how, historically,
centralized health information systems served central functions like
billing and admissions well, but fell far short on departmental clinical
functions. Departmental systems emerged that provided specialized
applications for the departments but did not communicate well with the
central systems. HL7 served reasonably well for simple ADT data and
results reporting. DICOM solved most of the issues involving medical
image format. IHE has emerged as a promise for context specific
messaging to make these systems appear truly integrated. IHE needs
support from users demanding that vendors provide the agreed-upon
standards. Radiology has traditionally been a leader in informatics and
should continue to lead the effort for distributed but integrated
systems.
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