The radiologist sees the scan. The pathologist down the hall doesn't. When ransomware hits, nobody does.

Before Imaging Goes Dark

The Executive Masterclass on Enterprise Imaging, Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience

Every image · Every department · Real-world lessons from three healthcare technology leaders

Most hospitals don't run one imaging system. They run dozens: radiology, cardiology, pathology, endoscopy, wound photos on a phone, ultrasound at the bedside. Each one stored, secured and recovered differently.

The technology to fix this already exists. What's missing is the plan, and leaders who can connect imaging, infrastructure and security into one decision.

• ✓See where your images really live, including the systems nobody put on the inventory
• ✓Understand what imaging costs you to store, secure and recover, and who owns each decision
• ✓Leave with ten questions to ask about your own imaging, before an outage asks them for you

Founding Faculty: Philip Gelda, Thomas M. Dewar and Alim Abdul. Real-world lessons from three healthcare technology leadersEnterprise imaging and PACS · Healthcare infrastructure and clinical systems · Cybersecurity and resilienceMeet the faculty ↓

Delivered live online by U.S.-based AABGM Inc. Vendor-neutral. No sales pitch.

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1. 1The hidden imaging estateSession 1 · 2 hours · Led by Philip Gelda, with Thomas M. DewarSee every place your organization creates and stores images, and why consolidation is a strategy decision before it is a product decision.
   • How PACS, VNA, enterprise imaging platforms and universal viewers fit together, in plain English
   • Radiology is only the start: cardiology, pathology, endoscopy, dermatology, wound photos and bedside ultrasound
   • DICOM and non-DICOM images, and why the difference drives cost and risk
   • Where the electronic health record ends and the image archive begins
   Exercise: Map the imaging systems of a fictional three-hospital health system and find the ones nobody listed.You take away: Imaging inventory template
2. 2Strategy, governance and buying rightSession 2 · 2 hours · Led by Philip Gelda, with Alim AbdulDecide who owns imaging, what you keep and for how long, and how to choose a platform you can leave.
   • Setting up an imaging council with clinical, IT, security, compliance and finance seats
   • Retention rules, a 10-year data strategy and a 3-year technology roadmap
   • Vendor selection: requirements, demos, scoring and due diligence
   • Security questionnaires, business associate agreements, exit rights and total cost of ownership
   Exercise: Score two fictional vendor proposals, including their security answers and contract terms.You take away: Council charter, vendor scoring matrix, security questionnaire and contract checklist
3. 3What it runs onSession 3 · 2 hours · Led by Thomas M. Dewar, with Philip GeldaBuild the infrastructure, integration and identity foundations that keep images fast, available and affordable.
   • Storage growth, cloud or on premises, and the costs that appear years later
   • Integrating imaging with the electronic health record: orders, results and image links
   • Identity, access and patient identity across hospitals
   • Digital pathology and AI: very large images, new interfaces and governance
   Exercise: Size seven years of storage growth and compare on-premises and cloud options for a CFO.You take away: Storage growth and total cost calculator
4. 4Moving the dataSession 4 · 2 hours · Led by Philip Gelda and Thomas M. DewarPlan migrations that clinicians can trust, and actually retire the old systems.
   • Lessons from multi-hospital PACS consolidations and million-study migrations
   • Validation sampling, reconciliation and patient-identity mismatches
   • Cutover, parallel running and downtime during migration
   • Decommissioning legacy systems on schedule
   Exercise: Plan a migration cutover for the fictional health system, including a clinical validation sample.You take away: Migration readiness checklist and risk register
5. 5When imaging goes darkSession 5 · 2 hours · Led by Alim Abdul, with Philip Gelda and Thomas M. DewarKeep imaging available through outages and ransomware, and know the first decisions before you need them.
   • Why imaging is often restored late, and what that means for patient care
   • Exposed imaging systems, backups that cannot be altered, and tested restores
   • Downtime viewing, recovery order and clinical communication
   • HIPAA requirements and the direction of proposed rule changes
   Exercise: A live 60-minute ransomware simulation: imaging is down for 72 hours. All three faculty play the roles.You take away: Imaging downtime and recovery playbook template and a 90-day action plan