LIVE from RSNA 2016: Rasu Shrestha, M.D. on Machine Learning and Other Paths to the Future Healthcare Informatics Magazine Health IT

Rasu Shrestha, M.D., the chief innovation officer at the Pittsburgh-based UPMC health system, serves as the chair of the Informatics Scientific Program Committee at the Radiological Society of North America. In that role, Dr. Shrestha has led the discussions that have created the official theme each year for the past two years, for the imaging informatics content at the annual RSNA Conference. Last year, the theme was 3D printing; this year, it is machine learning. Dr. Shrestha took out time on Nov. 29 during the frenzy of activity at RSNA 2016, being held at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, to speak with Healthcare Informatics Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland, about the current state and future prospects of radiology practice and of imaging informatics. Below are excerpts from that interview.