Mark Watts has over 20 years as an imaging professional with vast expertise in imaging informatics and IT issues. He has served in many roles in both hospitals and industry as a health care vice president, imaging director, and IT consultant. His knowledge and experience in the convergence of IT and imaging has made him a sought after author, speaker and consultant. He has authored a textbook on informatics and was a pioneer in the adoption and development of PACS and VNA technologies.
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Fogged Memory
Researchers are training an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can potentially diagnose dementia after a single brain scan.
Great Follow Up Care Pays Well
Adhering to the radiologist follow-up recommendations is a long-standing problem that impacts outcomes, liabilities and revenue. Unfortunately, less than 40% of the referring providers adhere to the radiologist recommendations around incidental findings.
Perception is not always reality
For radiologists it is difficult to appreciate all that is visible. When they are looking for one abnormality they can completely miss another. Researchers call this phenomenon “inattentional blindness.”
AI: Seeing What’s Next
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are enabling doctors to see and also predict previously unidentified patterns within medical and biological data that can inform individualized disease prevention and care. It can also be used for biomedical discovery.
