Ahead in the Cloud: Imaging Perspective | Mach7

A thought-leadership perspective from Dr. Eliot Siegel on what cloud migration means for the future of imaging.

The cloud is reshaping enterprise imaging. A pioneer of digital radiology explains why.

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 healthcare IT’s vendor-neutral archives and cloud services, and argues that the migration of imaging data to the cloud is now central to imaging informatics.

But adoption is not simple. Varying definitions of cloud strategies and SaaS pricing structures create confusion and real risk, and security and cost remain central concerns for organizations that have invested heavily in stable, proprietary networks. This perspective separates the genuine drivers from the noise and points to what providers should expect from their cloud and imaging-IT partners.

What you’ll learn

• Why the US leads global cloud adoption in imaging, and where it is headed
• How cloud-enabled data aggregation breaks down barriers to information flow
• What it means to center imaging data around the patient, not the workstation
• Why transparency on SaaS models matters before you commit
• How the author defines enterprise imaging and where it is evolving

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