Innovation Paper in the June 2012 Edition of the Journal ofDigital Imaging (JDI)

I have recently returned from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2012 Annual Meeting and was reading Dr. Bruce Reiner and Matthew McKinley’s (“Reiner and McKinley’s”) excellent paper on the plane ride home, entitled “Application of Innovation Economics to Medical Imaging and Information System Technologies”, JDI, June 2012. The paper is courageous and shines the light on an incredibly important topic for SIIM, our industry and the healthcare system that we all collectively serve. I was struck by many statements in the paper, and would like to share my thoughts. First, these are the extracted areas that most resonated