Designing Advanced Medical Imaging to Improve Outcomes and Increase Safety

• Greater awareness of clinical challenges of safety and improved outcomes in medical imaging environments.
• Better understanding of the impact of design and the physical environment on safety and clinical outcomes in imaging facilities.
• Knowledge of specific “design interventions” that may contribute to improved safety and clinical outcomes in imaging environments.
• Greater familiarity with safety regulations and guidelines that affect imaging facility design.

Bill Rostenberg, FAIA, FACHA

Mr. Rostenberg is a Principal and Director of Research with Anshen + Allen Architects in San Francisco, and practices internationally. Mr. Rostenberg has written numerous books and articles about the design and planning of healthcare facilities, including The Architecture of Medical Imaging (recently published by John Wiley and Sons); Design Planning for Freestanding Ambulatory Care Facilities, “Medical Technology and Facility Design in a Managed Care Environment”; and “Alternative Healthcare Facilities: Design Reflects Quality Image.” He is a guest instructor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Clemson University Graduate program in Architecture + Health, The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and numerous other medical and architectural professional organizations.

Bill has served on the Board of Directors and has been the National Program Chair of the American Institute of Architects/Academy of Architecture for Health, Chair of the National AIA/AAH Technology Committee; and Chair of the Health Facilities Committee of the American Institute of Architects/San Francisco Chapter. He was elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 2001 for his notable contributions in advancing the practice standards of architecture.

Mr. Rostenberg is a founding fellow of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA), and has been awarded Presidential Citations, both nationally and locally, from the AIA/ Academy of Architecture for Health for Extraordinary Service to the Profession. Bill is also a recipient of the AIA/AHA National Fellowship in Health Facility Design.

Steven C. Horii, MD, FACR, FSIIM

Dr. Horii did his undergraduate work at the Johns Hopkins University earning a BA in Natural Sciences and graduating with Departmental Honors in Chemistry. He went on to the New York University School of Medicine and earned his M.D. in 1976. He stayed at N.Y.U. as a resident in radiology and later as a Fellow in abdominal radiology. Dr. Horii passed his diagnostic radiology board examination in 1980 and joined the faculty at N.Y.U., eventually earning the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure. Dr. Horii remained at N.Y.U. until 1988 when he left to become Clinical Director of the Image Management and Communications Section in the Radiology Department at Georgetown University. He subsequently joined the faculty in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in 1992 as Co-Director of the Medical Informatics Group and Professor of Radiology. Dr. Horii was elected to Fellowship of the American College of Radiology in 1998 and of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM, formerly SCAR) in 2000.

Dr. Horii's clinical specialty is diagnostic ultrasound and his research interests are in picture archiving and communications systems, particularly the evaluation and human factors aspects of such systems and the design of reading rooms appropriate for workstations. He has presented papers at most of the major conferences on PACS in the United States and abroad. In 2005, Dr. Horii was appointed the Editor of the SIIM “Experts Hotline,” an on-line information resource for SIIM members. In 2006, Dr. Horii was elected to the SIIM Board of Directors.

Dr. Horii has also been involved in standards for digital image communication and has been active in the ACR-NEMA and DICOM Standards Committees since 1984. He served as Co-Chairman of the ACR-NEMA and DICOM Standards Committees from 1986 to 1998.

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