Unlocking the Power of Medical Imaging Data with Optum’s Tracy Byers

On today’s episode of the Medical Imaging for All podcast, Ohad speaks with Tracy Byers, CEO Enterprise Imaging at Optum, a health services and innovation company. They discuss current trends in healthcare IT and technology, including the reasons why hospitals are making the shift to the cloud, how to make medical imaging data more accessible for use in training and research, and how to lower some of the barriers to using AI. They also talk about the need for start-up mentalities in large healthcare companies, how to staff for efficiency and scale, and what makes a good role model.

Topics discussed:

• Tracy's thirty-year career in medical healthcare IT, from working in finance at Philips to learning about artificial intelligence and machine learning at IBM, and joining Optum four years ago as the CEO of Enterprise Imaging.
• What makes a good team working to solve healthcare technology problems, the importance of great role models, and why you need to treat people with respect and dignity all throughout the process.
• Why big healthcare companies should incorporate individuals with start-up mindsets in order to help scale and encourage quicker decision-making.
• How medical imaging data is being underutilized today, and the steps companies are making to unlock that data for training, research, and more.
• What big shifts have happened in the healthcare industry to prompt hospitals and health systems to make the move to the cloud, and why there's been resistance to it.
• How AI can be a great productivity tool for radiologists, and what barriers are standing in the way of AI adoption today.
• Why training better AI algorithms will build trust in its accuracy, reduce skepticism, and increase adoption.