RSNA 2021 – Imaging Technology Focuses on Delivering More Value

This year’s RSNA conference kicked off with a plenary lecture from Dr. James Brink, Chair of Radiology and Chief of Enterprise Radiology at Mass General Brigham. In his talk, Dr. Brink discussed the importance of radiologists engaging with and defining their role in value-based health care. If not, other specialties and organizations will take the lead and set their own initiatives. Picking up on this theme, one of our focus points was exploring the impact that striving to achieve increased value was having on hardware and software imaging procurement, including AI. The other focus point was identifying the innovation occurring in attempts to keep pace with the demands of the radiology department. As is true with most discussions regarding value-based procurement (VBP), it remains an emerging area that is still not well defined and is difficult to measure and identify. That said, there was much evidence of suppliers preparing their solutions to address the VBP concept as it continues to evolve. In this editorial, they include GE Healthcare, Fujifilm, Agfa, Philips, Konica Minolta, and Shimadzu.

Read Vamstar’s entire RSNA 2021 write-up on DOTmed https://www.dotmed.com/news/story/56699

Topics included:

• Increasing productivity and decreasing burnout with AI in the workflow
• The influence of outcome-based language in RFPs
• Pivoting AI from trial to monetization, improving the patient experience
• Bringing advanced image processing into price sensitive markets
• First time right, more clinical value from existing technology