8th Baltic Congress of Radiology

08.10.2022  Tallinn, Estonia

Keynote speech

Black Box

Synopsis: The future role of the radiologist in the rapidly changing healthcare landscape.

This presentation will provide an extensive overview of how likely the radiology profession and our role will evolve in the future. This talk will explore the expanding different roles of the radiologist, and these include radiologist as a doctor/physician, a communicator, an innovator or technology facilitator and teacher – disucssing how these connect with the broader healthcare system. As physicians, radiologists will continue to provide a highly specialised diagnosis or treatment of the disease; however, there will be a need for radiologists to get further involved in the patients' clinical pathways with extensive expertise in imaging and clinical care to increase the collaboration with other healthcare professionals to ensure that the added-value by our profession remains increasing. More, like never before radiologists will need to not only communicate more with clinical colleagues, but also to get more involved in communication with patients and serve as protectors of patients’ safety. Also, radiologists will be expected to serve as translators of complex clinical, imaging and data scientists generated information ensuring the swift communication between clinical professionals and patients. Radiologists will also play an increasing role in adopting AI algorithms and data science in medicine, meaning that in the upcoming years, our skillset will likely need to significantly expand to enable us to maintain our role as one of the most technology-driven and evolving medical professions in the last century. Lastly, as teachers, we will need to continue to provide a more subspecialised training in radiology but also to continue to expand the skillset provided for younger colleagues, including not only training in data science and machine learning, but also soft skills like leadership and management to provide the future radiologist with know-how needed to take a leading position in shaping the future of healthcare. All of the roles above will be better presented and discussed during the presentation.

This agenda item is presented in the following session: S1 - BCR Plenary Session

Plenary session

07.10.2022 09:00 - 10:30