Session Organizers: Kalvin Parman, Medtronic and Ken Merdan, Boston Scientific
Medical imaging comprises over 80% of healthcare data with increased usage in product design, clinical diagnosis, therapy planning and guidance. Come join a discussion around making medical imaging FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) go-fair.org
Learn about experiences, challenges and use cases around data management and collaboration from industry leaders and regulatory bodies.
Are you familiar with modalities, DICOM, computer vision, xnat.org? Are you looking for medical imaging repositories, databases with unique considerations specific in highly regulated global healthcare environments; privacy, access, IT infrastructure?
What is Medical Imaging Data
Kalvin Parman
Advisor/Analyst, Medtronic
Advisor/Analyst at Medtronic researching new trends and leading teams in new technologies and new solutions across the enterprise.
Over 15 years in variety of Engineering/IT roles researching and driving enterprise decisions for Medical Imaging, Remote Support and Maintenance, Consolidated Imaging Solutions for data mining and improving HPC Modeling and Simulation capabilities.
Ken Merdan
Sr. R&D Fellow, Global Technology & Services, Boston Scientific Corp.
Over 30 yrs. experience in engineering, design systems, and technical leadership focused on innovative medical therapy and device development. Champion for developing clinically relevant digital and physical models including 3D virtual reality and anatomical prints. Actively driving global scale, enabling systems & processes including medical imaging data management.
UMN Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) Industrial Fellow.
25+ issued USPTO patents.
FAIR - XNAT/Flywheel.io
Jim Olson
CEO, Flywheel.io
Jim Olson is CEO of Flywheel, a biomedical research informatics platform leveraging the power of cloud-scale computing infrastructure to address the increasing complexity of modern computational science and machine learning.
Jim is a “builder” at his core. His passion is developing teams and growing companies. Jim has over 35 years of leadership experience in technology, digital product development, business strategy, high-growth companies, and healthcare at both large and startup companies, including West Publishing, now Thomson Reuters, Iconoculture, Livio Health Group and Stella/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota.
Jim is also an angel investor, active in the startup community supporting teams with passion and focus. Jim serves on boards, both for-profit and not-for-profit, helping drive visions forward.
Travis Richardson
Chief Strategist, Flywheel.io
Travis Richardson is Chief Strategist of Flywheel. He brings over 25 years of executive leadership experience in product development, strategy, and innovation at both large and small companies including Schneider Electric, Oracle, cloud information service provider, DTN, and Minneapolis-based White Pine Consulting Group.
Travis’ career has primarily focused on his passion for data management, data quality, and application interoperability to provide real-world solutions in industries including telecommunications, energy, and supply-chain. He is particularly excited to be leveraging his data management and analytics experience to enable a new generation of innovative solutions for healthcare with enormous potential to accelerate scientific discovery and advance precision care.