Imaging Informatics Unplugged
by Nagels Consulting
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Hack the PACS: DICOM, Ransomware, and the Future of Healthcare…
Hack the PACS: DICOM, Ransomware, and the Future of Healthcare…
About this podcast
Welcome to ‘Imaging Informatics Unplugged,’ the podcast where host Jason Nagels delves into the dynamic world of medical imaging informatics. From interoperability standards like DICOM, HL7, and FHIR to the latest AI innovations and enterprise imaging, Jason brings you insightful discussions and expert interviews illuminating the path toward seamless healthcare technology integration. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the field, join us as we explore the technologies and trends shaping the future of medical imaging.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 38 episodes
- Hack the PACS: DICOM, Ransomware, and the Future of Healthcare Cybersecurity | Dr. Benoit Desjardins · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 14What happens when a radiologist, a former hacker, and a cybersecurity leader live in the same person? You get Dr. Benoit Desjardins, and this conversation is one of the most…
- Why Reading Rooms Should Copy Aircraft Cockpits, Not the Other Way Around | Les Folio · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 13Dr. Les Folio has one of the most unusual resumes you'll hear on this show. Before he ever read a scan, he was a volunteer firefighter who got burned on his first field fire, a…
- Why Shazam and Your MRI Scanner Are Secretly Doing the Same Math | Jason Nagels · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 12Quick one this week: no guest, just me and a question that's been rattling around my head for a while. Does Shazam actually hear the song it's identifying? Short answer: no, not…
- Enterprise Imaging Interoperability: DICOM, FHIR, PACS and VNA Data Sharing | Michael Rosenberg · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 11Michael Rosenberg has spent the last decade obsessed with a problem most of healthcare IT would rather not think about: how do you get a medical image from one institution to…
- ClearCanvas, Open-Source PACS, and the Future of Imaging Informatics | Norman Young · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 10Norman Young has spent 25 years building software at the intersection of imaging and medicine, but the story behind his work starts with his own diagnosis. In 1992, as a…
- Task Shifting & Radiology IT: How Nunavut Closed Its Imaging Access Gap | Greg Toffner · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 9What happens when a remote Arctic community with zero medical radiation technologists needs a chest x-ray — and the nearest one is a plane ride away? In this special crossover…
- AI Coding, DICOM Sync & the Future of PACS | Chris Hafey · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 12What happens when a 25-year medical imaging veteran retires, then comes back with an AI coding assistant and rebuilds his entire mental model of how PACS gets built? Chris Hafey…
- Why VNAs Were Never Really About Storage — And What That Means for AI | Larry Sitka · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 11If you've ever fought through a PACS migration, wrestled with malformed DICOM data, or wondered why two systems that supposedly speak the same standard can't talk to each other —…
- Digital Pathology Display Standards: Why Medical Monitors Change Diagnostic Accuracy | Tom Kimpe · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 10If your digital pathology deployment has a brand-new whole-slide scanner, a solid IMS, and petabytes of storage — but your pathologists are reading on consumer monitors — you may…
- AI in Radiology: Benchmarking LLMs, Agentic Hype, and Imaging Informatics | Satvik Tripathi · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 9If you have ever watched a radiology AI demo hit 98% accuracy in testing and then wonder why nobody is actually using it in the clinic, this episode is for you. Hit subscribe so…
- CIIP Exam Prep: Where to Start, What to Study, and How to Qualify · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 8Thinking about the CIIP, but have no clue where to start?This video breaks down the exam, the eligibility rules, the 10 domains, and the smartest way to figure out what you…
- AI in Radiology: Adoption, Bias, Interoperability, Federated Learning and What Comes Next · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 7How close is AI to real clinical adoption in radiology and medical imaging?In this episode of Imaging Informatics Unplugged, Jason Nagels talks with Dr. Khaled Younis about where…
- AI in Radiology: Hype vs Reality, Imaging AI, Workflow, and Clinical Adoption | Dr. Ben Fine · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 6Is radiology AI finally living up to the hype — or are we still waiting for the revolution Geoff Hinton promised back in 2012? In this episode of Imaging Informatics Unplugged…
- The Beatles, EMI, and the Birth of CT Scanning | Imaging Informatics Unplugged · 6 min · Season 2 Episode 5What do The Beatles have to do with the invention of the CT scanner?At first glance… nothing.By the time CT scanning was introduced in the early 1970s, The Beatles had already…
- AI in Radiology Explained: From Pilot Projects to Real Clinical Deployment | Dr. Franz Pfister · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 4AI in healthcare is everywhere — but very little of it actually works in real clinical environments. In this episode of Imaging Informatics Unplugged, Jason Nagels sits down with…
- Dermatology Imaging Informatics & AI: Data, Context and Clinical Reality | Dr. Veronica Rotemberg · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 3Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering dermatology — but what does it actually take to make AI work in real clinical practice?In this episode of Imaging Informatics…
- Inside the DICOM Toolkit: How Medical Imaging Actually Works | John Hally · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 2If you work in medical imaging, DICOM is everywhere — even when you don’t see it.In this episode of Imaging Informatics Unplugged, Jason Nagels sits down with John Hally, Product…
- Interactive Multimedia Reporting: Standards, AI, & the Future of Reporting | Dr. Seth Berkowitz · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 1In this episode of Imaging Informatics Unplugged, we explore Interactive Multimedia Reporting (IMR) and why traditional text-based radiology reports are no longer enough for…
- The PACS Selection Blueprint: What Every Imaging Leader Gets Wrong | with Dr. Alex Towbin · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 19Choosing a PACS can shape the next 10 years of your imaging department. Yet many leaders still rely on gut feel, vendor hype, or checklists that do not reflect real clinical…
- Revolutionizing Patient Access to Medical Images | with Rishi Nayyar · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 18In this conversation, Rishi Nayyar discusses his journey from banking to healthcare innovation, focusing on patient access to medical images and the role of AI in enhancing…
