[{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m John Sole. Premier Imaging Informatics is my consulting practice, and it\u0026rsquo;s just me.\nI started in the scanner room. The Army trained me as a radiologic technologist in 1994; I spent the next decade doing x-ray, trauma imaging, and CT, and moved to the IT side in 2004 as a PACS analyst. For the next eight years I ran imaging systems inside hospitals: PACS, cardiology PACS, a RIS, speech recognition, and an early vendor-neutral archive. Then I crossed to the vendor side, spending six years as a solutions architect for the Acuo VNA (later Lexmark Healthcare) and Vital Images, designing enterprise imaging architectures for health systems across the country. In 2018 I went independent.\nThat path is the point. I\u0026rsquo;ve been the person who gets paged at 2 a.m. when the archive stops accepting studies, and I\u0026rsquo;ve been the person who drew the architecture that was supposed to prevent it. I understand what the radiologist needs, what the modality actually sends, and what the database is doing underneath.\nToday I work with health systems on enterprise medical imaging: implementing new PACS and archive systems, migrating data between them, and connecting imaging to everything around it, from modalities to the EHR. Most of that lives in the standards, DICOM, HL7 and IHE, and in the databases and interfaces beneath them. When a production problem needs someone to trace it to the protocol or the query, that\u0026rsquo;s the work I like most.\nMy clients are academic medical centers, cancer centers, and children\u0026rsquo;s hospitals. I take engagements through healthcare advisory firms rather than selling directly.\nI sat the first CIIP exam in 2007 and later wrote exam items and served on the exam committee for ABII. I hold an MBA from Rockford College. I write SQL and Python when the problem calls for it.\nWriting # I publish here on imaging informatics: methods, standards, and things I\u0026rsquo;ve seen go wrong. Where a claim would be challenged by someone who knows the field, I cite the standard or the paper. Where numbers appear, the method behind them is shown. The rest is experience, stated as such.\nContact # jsole@pii.services\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"Premier Imaging Informatics","summary":"","title":"About","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Premier Imaging Informatics","summary":"","title":"Premier Imaging Informatics","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"}]