State Legislative Bills Report
As most state legislatures end their 2025 sessions and look to 2026, ACR staff is looking at how some radiology-specific bills they tracked fared this year.
Read moreACR Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Mike Tilkin recently published an article with Cheryl Kreider Carey, Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The article, “The Role of Organized Radiology in Advancing Imaging Artificial Intelligence,” discusses how ACR and SIIM have collaborated to lead and educate their members on the evolving technology of artificial intelligence (AI).
Since 2018, the two organizations have hosted a jointly sponsored data science meeting held on the preconference day of SIIM’s annual meeting. Past themes have included economics in AI, AI in clinical practice, and quantifying the value of AI. In 2019, SIIM and ACR collaborated to offer a challenge in which participants would build an AI segmentation model to classify and segment pneumothoraces on chest radiographs based on a dataset contributed by National Institutes of Health.
Before two organizations enter a partnership, the authors suggest taking these topics into consideration:
To learn more, read the full article in JACR.
State Legislative Bills Report
As most state legislatures end their 2025 sessions and look to 2026, ACR staff is looking at how some radiology-specific bills they tracked fared this year.
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