Radbook 2017 - Editorial

Innovating Healthcare, Embracing the Future Healthcare landscapes are dramatically changing today, along with issues such as an aging society, expanding lifestyle related disease and an increase in national medical expenditure. Hitachi understands that healthcare is an integral part of our social infrastructure. Through it's innovative technologies and systems/solutions, Hitachi is striving to support a healthy and secure life in the 21st century. Hitachi Medical Systems Europe Holding AG, Switzerland www.hitachi-medical-systems.eu Dear Reader, medical imaging is developing by leaps and bounds. Now, that most radiology departments are equipped with digital modalities and networked, the next task is to analyse the data and to transform them into information that really advances diagnosis and therapy. Big Data, business analytics, machine learning und artiicial intelligence – these imaging buzzwords inally direct our attention beyond the number of detector rows and towards the crucial advantages of digital radiology. Countless local data silos are slowly but surely turning into networked cloud solutions. An estimated 500 million gigabyte data are generated in medical imaging every year. In ive years the volume is expected to have risen to 25 exabyte. IBM’s Watson can carry out more than 80 trillion operations per second, analysing enormous data volumes in lightning speed. A state-of-the-art radiology system can generate standard readings faster than the human radiologist. Nevertheless, a validated data pool is – and will remain – the precondition for any reliable automated diagnosis. Even artiicial intelligence systems need knowledgeable controls, i.e. veriication of the machine-made diagnoses. Consequently, the signiicance of radiology within healthcare will continue to increase. And look at it this way: if in the future 70 percent of the “simple” readings will be done much quicker the radiologists will have much more time to handle complex cases. Your editorial team Daniela Zimmermann and Guido Gebhardt RADBOOK 2017 5

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