"We have not done a great job up to now in communicating our value to policymakers, and we need to do a much better job in demonstrating our value to patients and their physicians," he wrote in an email to AuntMinnie.com. "Our experience and utility in using information systems will help us continue to innovate and advance imaging in the future."
Radiology innovation is a vital component of keeping healthcare costs manageable, and health systems in the future need radiologists and their innovations more than ever, according to Arenson, who is chair of radiology and biomedical imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.
Those wonders will need to be cheap, fast, and accurate. And get ready for some game changers: hyperpolarized carbon-13, steerable catheters, and the use of intraluminal filters, which will radically change the way radiologists view their work.
