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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 Imaging Enterprise. Indeed, awareness of these standards is even essential in deciding whether to adopt them, particularly when looking through the lens of deployment, maintenance and support, and eventual upgrade paths for the enterprise. In addition to developing richly integrated enterprises, standards play a crucial role in ensuring data portability. Brad highlights the working groups and their interactions with the community to maintain and improve these standards.

Brad Genereaux is Medical Imaging and Smart Hospitals Alliance Manager at NVIDIA, and has a keen focus on accelerating artificial intelligence, visualization, and virtualization in healthcare. As a passionate and engaged healthcare and medical imaging leader, Brad evangelizes the ubiquitous adoption and integration of seamless healthcare and medical imaging workflows at scale. Brad is deeply involved with the community in building and implementing standards like DICOM, HL7, and IHE to make this happen.

Resources: https://www.dicomstandard.org/activity/wgs https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Committees https://www.hl7.org/events/workgroupmeetings.cfm https://siim.org/page/siim_taskforces

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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 an experienced CIIP. System fortification for maximum uptime and seamless failover, detailed scripts for individual systems and processes, and templates for end-user communication are just a few of the topics covered in this deep dive.

Sylvia Devlin has worked in medical imaging for more than half her life and there is no stopping her now. She started as one of the Radiology Department front desk clerk's after graduating high school while going to medical radiography school. After graduating, Sylvia enjoyed working in various imaging areas but always had a keen interest in pursuing information systems and PACS. Sylvia earned her understudies in Information Systems followed by a Master's in Informatics Administration. Today Sylvia is a diplomate of the American Board of Imaging Informatics, earning her CIIP in 2010. She is the Director of Clinical Applications Operations at Radiology Partners and enthusiastically volunteers on many SIIM initiatives and serves as on the SIIM Board of Directors.

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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.

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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 Neuroradiology.

Brad Genereaux is Medical Imaging and Smart Hospitals Alliance Manager at NVIDIA, and has a keen focus on accelerating artificial intelligence, visualization, and virtualization in healthcare. As a passionate and engaged healthcare and medical imaging leader, Brad evangelizes the ubiquitous adoption and integration of seamless healthcare and medical imaging workflows at scale. Brad is deeply involved with the community in building and implementing standards like DICOM, HL7, and IHE to make this happen.

Kevin O'Donnell is a Senior R&D Manager at Canon Medical Research USA. As an enthusiastic believer in the value of standards to healthcare in general and medical imaging in particular, he is a past Chair and contributor to DICOM and IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise), and is currently a member of the SIIM Board of Directors and Chair of the Process Committee of QIBA (Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance). IHE Wiki Page on the paper, including the video on navigating the paper by Brad. The White Paper can be found here. 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 @mohannadhussain, @jaynagels, @AliTejaniMD, @AAnandMD Visit us!

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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 Administrator and has managed many implementations and upgrades for RIS and PACS systems at University of Colorado Hospital.

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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 storage standards and technologies such as RAID, as well as the change in storage utilization with advent of evolving storage media architectures going from magnetooptical, spinning platter, solid state, and tape archives. In particular, the transition from storage silos to enterprise imaging coincided with an explosion of storage needs for the next generation scanners, modalities such as Tomosynthesis, cardiology, pathology, dermatology, clinical research, comprising unique business with disparate storage needs, and datatypes, where the Vendor Neutral Archive pardigm has become the de facto standard.

Jay Crawford is the Chief Imaging Informatics Officer at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is a Biomedical Engineer, with subsequent Masters and Doctorate Degrees in Health Administration with emphasis on Information Technology and Leadership. Jay has been involved in Academic Medical Center PACS configuration, implementation, and support since the mid 1990's.

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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 vendors. These meetings started informally mid-2020 and give participants a way to meet without any predetermined agenda to ask questions, brainstorm new ideas, share about new projects or any other topics that are related to open-source medical imaging!

To learn more about the groups and review meeting minutes check out Chris Hafey 's github page: https://github.com/chafey/medical-imaging-community A link is included to sign up for a meeting invite: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApfuiqrz8pGtGxKTUs_QVih1HczQlRt5zB?_x_zm_rtaid=Y5apCU13RT6n57V5sBLxzA.1635533568273.efb607b545c00ae9b8d957aba8c42b5c&_x_zm_rhtaid=868 The group meets most Monday mornings at 1100AM (UTC-05:00 autumn/winter, spring/summer UTC−04:00).

Chris Hafey is a Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. He has over 25 years of experience in the medical imaging industry and specializes in building scalable high-performance systems. During his career, he has led the development of several greenfield products including the Stentor iSite PACS, Vital Images Vitrea View, and the NucleusHealth cloud-based PACS. Chris is active in the open-source community and created the CornerstoneJS open-source project which is used by thousands of developers worldwide. He contributed to the DICOMweb specification and continues to work towards improving its performance for web-based viewing

Jason Hostetter is a radiologist and web developer from Baltimore MD. Jason has been building websites for almost 20 years and has been active in the imaging informatics community and SIIM since residency. Jason is the founder and developer of Pacsbin, a cloud radiology teaching file platform used by institutions and educators all over the world.

Simon Rascovsky is a Radiologist, Biomedical Engineer, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in imaging informatics. He has worked as advanced imaging research director and Imaging IT leader for several top healthcare institutions in his home country, Colombia, where he founded two teleradiology SaaS and clinical services companies. In his last position, he led the development of the NucleusHealth cloud diagnostic viewer and is now the CTO at the Bay Area-based Alara Imaging.

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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 a customer engineer working for the Healthcare vertical of Google Cloud, and he is based out of Austin, TX and has worked in the medical imaging space for more than 15 years. He has architected several PACS and VNA systems, specializing in visualization of medical images for diagnostic reading, recently focusing on the needs of AI/ML and analytics in medical imaging.

Markus Herrmann serves as Director of Computational Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the development of novel quantitative imaging biomarkers and computer-aided diagnostic tests combining microscopy imaging, computer vision, and mathematical modeling. Markus is active in national and international efforts to advance the standardization and adoption of digital and computational pathology, including the DICOM Working Group 26 Pathology, the IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine domain, the Pathology Innovation Collaborative Community, the Digital and Computational Pathology Committee of the College of American Pathologists, and the Regulatory and Standards Task Force of the Digital Pathology Association.

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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 lively discussion covers an array of use cases and workflows, beginning with the historical uses of PACS to managing non imaging textual and metadata to the advent of DICOM SR, which in tandem with standardization efforts of IHE profiles enabled more dynamic workflows, such as AI and Communication and follow-up tracking.

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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, Ben discusses the challenges of integrating with a new national EMR, establishing links with Ghana's national identification initiatives and other health information entities. The discussion evoked quite a bit of nostalgia from both Jason and Ben, who reflected on how much progress has been made, highlighting some of the innovative solutions used at the hospital when faced with limited resources. Enjoy!

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