Q&A: Empowering People Behind the Image
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Q: Can you explain why it`s important to see imaging as a system? Wesdorp: From electronic medical records to picture archiving, communications systems (PACS), clinical databases and billing systems, health data is often distributed and sequestered across many applications and departments. This makes it hard to compile a comprehensive view of individual patients and populations. We`re approaching imaging as an ecosystem in which tech­nology and data connect seamlessly to empower all the stakeholders involved in imaging to create diagnostic-quality images. By merging data with clinical expertise at...