Posts by Sirona Team

Inspiration often comes from unexpected places. Healthcare, as with military precision, relies on mission-critical decision making under uncertainty. Physicians, like top notch fighter pilots, are diligently trained for high-speed tasks in dynamic environments with imperfect information. I believe an analytical model from aviation tactics can apply to healthcare. To teach aerial dogfighting tactics and increase…

Before I joined Sirona, the concept of a deconstructed PACS where you use the best products from individual vendors for worklist, viewer and reporter seemed like a good idea in theory. In practice, I knew firsthand just how difficult it was to get these individual products to work together. A simple software patch or upgrade…

After an absence last year, the largest radiological conference in the world took place in person, right after Thanksgiving in surprisingly balmy Chicago. RSNA 2021 was a great opportunity to take some time to showcase what we’ve been working on at Sirona, but it was also a reminder of an industry prone to buzzwords and…

RSNA 2021 was a real eye-opener for me. It was the first time I appeared at the event as a member of industry rather than in my capacity as a radiologist or rad student and I’m happy to say it was an extremely rewarding experience. Industry is not the enemy! Throughout medical school and most…

You have never seen such an exhausted disdain as when you ask an overworked radiologist to segment brain lesions on an additional thousand MR scans. Embarrassing to say now, but this was once me slowly burning the goodwill of my neuroradiologist collaborators for my thesis project. Coming from a computer science background where our datasets…