EARLY PACS PIONEER WHO GUIDED THE VA MARYLAND HEALTHCARE SYSTEM TO BECOME THE FIRST FILMLESS HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE IN THE UNITED STATES .
Eliot Siegel , MD
Professor and Vice Chair Research Informatics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine , Department of Diagnostic Radiology , Chief of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine for the Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System
“ When I read my PET / CT scans or other types of imaging studies , I have a resident or fellow in radiology who has talked with the patient , read through the chart , talked with the clinicians and looked at the old examinations . By the time I go over the study , they may have spent quite a while on that case . I can have the important elements and a tentative diagnosis that ’ s made by the resident or fellow looking at the images and correlate them with the data presented to me , resulting in an intelligent synthesis of the data .”
“ Being able to create the computer equivalent of some of the functions of the residents and fellows with regard to synthesis of available information and a preliminary list of observations and thoughts is , in my opinion , the most exciting challenge for medical imaging informatics for the future .”
— Eliot Siegel , quoted in Radiology Today , February 2014 , “ Radiology ’ s Future in Big Data ”