Ahead in the Cloud

Dr. Eliot Siegel on what the move to cloud storage means for enterprise imaging.

Thirty years after the first filmless radiology department

More than thirty years ago, Dr. Eliot Siegel helped build the world's first filmless digital radiology department. In this paper he traces the line from that moment to today, when expertise in storage, security and management has moved into vendor-neutral archives and cloud services, and argues that where imaging data lives is now a central question in imaging informatics.

Adoption is not simple. Different vendors define cloud strategies and SaaS pricing structures differently, which creates both confusion and real commercial risk, and security and cost remain the main concerns for organizations that have already invested heavily in stable proprietary networks. This paper separates the genuine drivers from the noise and sets out what a provider should expect from a cloud and imaging IT partner.

What you'll learn

• Why the United States leads global cloud adoption in imaging, and where it is heading next
• What it means to organize imaging data around the patient rather than the workstation
• Which questions to ask about a SaaS pricing model before you commit
• How Dr. Siegel defines enterprise imaging, and where he expects it to go

Dr. Eliot Siegel is a Non-Executive Director of Mach7 Technologies.