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Open Access 01-04-2010
Thirty-Two-Bit Fat Clients Have Hit the Wall: Consequences for TRIP™
Published in: Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine | Issue 2/2010
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In its 2003 Annual meeting, the Society of Computer Applications in Radiology launched the Transforming the Radiologist Interpretation Process (TRIP™) initiative. As described at the time, TRIP™ is intended to assist radiologists with the tsunami of exploding data sets that they are increasingly expected to interpret. TRIP™ initially focused on three high level strategic objectives:
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Improving efficiency of interpretation of large data sets,
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Improving the timeliness and effectiveness of communication, and
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Decreasing medical errors.
However, there is a fundamental consideration that must presage the above concerns. Namely, will the computer architectures used even be capable of swallowing the data torrent that is pointed at them?