The RSNA over the years has shown itself to be adept at sensing the winds of change. Nowhere was this more apparent than at this year's opening symposium, when leading thinkers in radiology economics and technology pointed a spotlight at the growing importance of remote reads and teleradiology and their threat to traditional forms of practice. The questions posed were stark: Are U.S. radiologists destined to become part of a commodity market, in which image interpretations are sent via the Internet all over the country and the world and brokered to the lowest bidders? Or can we retrain and rethink the practice of radiology in ways that keep it vital and central to medical practice at a local level?
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