title: Information integration for the imaging specialist.
abstract: Medical imaging is an information business of rapidly increasing complexity. Imaging practice and imaging information support systems are inseparable. How both operate and how they ought to operate can be considered productively in terms of system theory. This concluding article on some practical system principles, therefore, presents one way of thinking about the rest of the volume.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers / Q000639:trends; D007256:Information Systems / Q000639:trends; D011871:Radiology