title: Technological innovations in digital data management and changing roles of imaging specialists in Japan.
abstract: Technical innovations in digital data management pose a threat to radiologists in that can we remain in the process of clinical decision making or be assigned to a secondary role in future clinical practice. The value added to the imaging studies by diagnostic radiologists, or imaging specialists, has never been questioned more seriously.
authors.affiliation: Shigeru Ehara, Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka 020-8505, Japan.
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ehara