Episode 17 of Vega Imaging Informatics’ YouTube video series, Vega Insights, is now available for streaming! Episode 17, AI in Healthcare: Politics, Policy, and the Path Forward, features Jeremy Bikman, President of Reaction Data and active thought...

Episode 16 of Vega Imaging Informatics’ YouTube video series, Vega Insights, is now available for streaming! Episode 16, Transitioning to Cloud-Based PACS, features Keith Eklund, Vice President of Sales and Service for Healthcare Tech Solutions....

Episode 15 of Vega Imaging Informatics’ YouTube video series, Vega Insights, is now available for streaming! Episode 15, Revolutionizing Radiology: The Role of AI, features Vijay Vonguru, CEO of Vesta Teleradiology, which provides 24/7...

Episode 14 of Vega Imaging Informatics’ YouTube video series, Vega Insights, is now available for streaming! Episode 14, Stanford’s Journey in Digital Pathology, features Stanford’s Enterprise Imaging Team, including Heather Kimball, CIIP, Senior...

Episode 13 of Vega Imaging Informatics’ YouTube video series, Vega Insights, is now available for streaming! Episode 13, Navigating Your Career in Imaging Informatics, features Tom Kern, a seasoned professional with 25 years of experience in...

January 2026 marks a remarkable milestone for Vega Imaging Informatics, as the company celebrates its completion of eight years in business. Since its founding in January 2018, Vega has advanced from a niche managed services provider to a global...

Episode 12, Collaborating for Success in AI Development and Implementation, features Dr. Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt, Vice Chair of Innovation for the Department of Radiology at University Hospitals (UH), where he directs the Radiology AI and...

Episode 11, Get Involved to Get Ahead in Imaging Informatics, features John Paganini, MBA, President of Paguar Informatics Inc., a healthcare IT consulting firm providing services in AI, innovation development, system integration, strategic...

Episode 10, Transforming Teleradiology with AI, features Scott Pohlkamp, co-founder and CEO of All-American Teleradiology, LLC and an industry veteran in the field of teleradiology, having previously launched two successful national teleradiology...

Episode Nine, Workflow-Driven Strategies: The Smarter Path to Imaging Technology Success, features Matt Hayes, a medical imaging professional with over 25 years of experience working in primary care hospitals, private practices, integrated...

Episode Eight, Do Imaging AI Solutions Have a ROI?, discusses whether imaging AI solutions adopted in healthcare have a Return on Investment (ROI) for practices. This question is answered through a hypothetical, but realistic, exploration of a...

Episode Seven, FHIR for Imaging AI: What HL7 v2 Couldn’t Deliver, features Herman Oosterwijk, a leading expert on DICOM, FHIR, and imaging AI. In Episode Seven, Vega Imaging Informatics President and CEO, Luke Bideaux, and Herman Oosterwijk discuss...

Episode Six, featuring Quan Zhou, MD.ai Director of Business Development and Operations, discusses the pain points of traditional radiology reporting and the benefits of AI powered reporting platforms, while also highlighting the key-features of...

Episode Five, “Is AI Revolutionizing Image Management Strategies?” discusses legacy data retention considerations, including state, and federal regulations, spoliation of evidence, local and cloud data storage, and proper management of imaging...

Episode Four, “Considerations on Acquiring Imaging Data for AI Developers” focuses on providing advice for AI developers seeking imaging data to train and refine their foundation models, including weighing the pros and cons of three main data...

Episode Three, “Considerations on Why Imaging Practices Are Slow to Implement AI Strategies” focuses on support strategies for IIPs when communicating the need to adopt organizational improvements in the form of new or emerging AI technologies...

Episode Two, “Vega Pro Managed Services,” focuses on the significant value CIIPs add to healthcare organizations, how CIIPs can help optimize and validate existing systems, and the connection between certification and increased patient care...

The first episode of Vega Imaging Informatics’ new YouTube video series, Vega Insights, is now available for streaming! Episode One, “Considerations on the Secondary Use of Imaging Data,” focuses on secondary use of de-identified data, including...

A study recently published by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/Zamora Hua et al. (2025), “Lack of children in public medical imaging data points to growing age bias in biomedical AI” highlights the age disparity in public medical...

When the topic of contributing de-identified imaging data for any subsequent use arises, it is often presented as a debate between protecting patient privacy and contributing to innovation. However, protecting patient privacy and contributing to...

As the Society of Imaging Informatics’ (SIIM’s) National Imaging Informatics Course (NIIC) approaches, Vega Imaging Informatics President and CEO Luke Bideaux, is sharing the top four reasons why imaging informaticists and healthcare professionals...

Vega Imaging Informatics was grateful for the opportunity to attend the European Congress of Radiology 2025 (#ECR25) in Vienna, Austria from February 26th to March 2nd. Our Manager of Imaging Data Services, Christopher Ferguson, sincerely enjoyed...

I KNEW I WANTED to go into imaging informatics even before I entered the radiography program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I liked imaging informatics because its aim is to improve the efficiency, accuracy, usability and reliability...

By Luke Bideaux Click to Read on AuntMinnie.com September 9, 2019 -- Encounter-based imaging is defined as medical imaging that is intentionally performed during a patient encounter without an associated imaging order. Images are generally acquired...

By Luke Bideaux, BSRT, CIIP August 12, 2019 -- A renewed level of excitement is sweeping the field of health imaging due to advancements in imaging-based artificial intelligence (AI). In 2018 alone, over $500 million in capital...

By Luke Bideaux, BSRT, CIIP Click to Read on AuntMinnie.com May 28, 2019 -- Interoperability in healthcare opens the door to a wide range of efficiency gains, business opportunities, cost savings, and improved patient outcomes -- in theory, anyway....

By Luke Bideaux, BSRT, CIIP Click to Read on AuntMinnie.com April 9, 2019 -- Unmet departmental needs and increased costs can occur if subject matter experts aren't available to help clinicians. In this article, I'll show how an organization's...

By Luke Bideaux, BSRT, CIIP Click to Read on AuntMinnie.com March 20, 2019 -- If utilized correctly, certified imaging informatics professionals (CIIPs) can be tremendously valuable to radiology and other imaging practices. In this new article...

By Luke Bideaux, BSRT, CIIP February 11, 2019 -- If utilized correctly, certified imaging informatics professionals (CIIPs) can be tremendously valuable to imaging practices. In this new article series, I'll show how an organization can experience...