Kent Soo Hoo

TL;DR: Cost feedback to surgeons, combined with a small departmental financial incentive, was associated with significantly reduced surgical supply costs, without negatively affecting patient outcomes.

TL;DR: A comprehensive data warehouse framework is needed, which encompasses imaging and non-imaging information in supporting disease management and research, and a multimodality neuroimaging data warehouse system implemented for clinical epilepsy research is proposed.

TL;DR: The design and implementation of a new class of research data warehouse, neuroinformatics database system (NIDS), which will alleviate problems for clinicians and researchers studying and treating patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy.

TL;DR: The operational characteristics and various effects of the University of California‐San Francisco Medical Center's physician‐led healthcare technology assessment program are explored and the key components to its success and opportunities for improvement in the context of its reproduction at other medical centers are highlighted.

TL;DR: The system design and tools for interactive query and visualization of medical images on the Web are presented and examples from breast and brain imaging applications are used to illustrate the operations and capabilities of such tools.