Guest blog by Dr Rizwan Malik, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust & Managing Director SMR Radiology To provide an effective and efficient clinical service, access to patient data is fundamental. As we touch virtually every clinical specialty, each with its own diverse requirements, radiologists need access to the full range of patient information in order to understand the context of the case and provide the most accurate assessment during the investigation process. But, today, we face myriad obstacles in accessing this data. The argument for a centralised place for all information pertaining to a patient, accessible to any

The name Rizwan Malik is becoming increasingly well known in NHS diagnostics. He tells Matthew D’Arcy that more radiologists need to be engaged in technology and why the wrong communications can cause damage in the age of AI. Rizwan Malik has been an NHS radiologist for more than 13 years. His name is becomingly increasingly well known, and not just for work at Royal Bolton Hospital, where he serves as a consultant radiologist and an associate chief clinical information officer. He is also a prominent player in the NHS diagnostic technology procurement environment and, as of September 2019, vice president

The year is 2019 and Imaging By Machines have fulfilled their prophesy and control all Radiology Departments, making their organic predecessors obsolete. One such lost soul tries to decide how he might reprovision the diagnostic equipment he has set up on his narrow boat on the Manchester Ship Canal, musing at the extent of the digital take over during his supper (cod of course). What I seek to do in this short paper is not to revisit the well-trodden road of what Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine learning or natural language processing might be, the data-science that underpins them nor