title: The future of the radiology information system.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Today in the hospital setting, several functions of the radiology information system (RIS), including order entry, patient registration, report repository, and the physician directory, have moved to enterprise electronic medical records. Some observers might conclude that the RIS is going away. In this article, we contend that because of the maturity of the RIS market compared with other areas of the health care enterprise, radiology has a unique opportunity to innovate.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While most of the hospital enterprise spends the next several years going through the digital transformation converting from paper to a digital format, radiology can leap ahead in its use of analytics and information technology. This article presents a summary of new RIS functions still maturing and open to innovation in the RIS market.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Nance
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meenan
authors.forename: Paul G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Nagy
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D011871:Radiology / Q000639:trends*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States