Joe Marion
Joseph Marion is Principal of Healthcare Integration Strategies LLC, with expertise in speech recognition, PACS, and enterprise imaging. He founded Healthcare Integration Strategies in 1993, consulting on PACS, speech recognition implementation, and the integration of imaging technologies. He joined Superior Consultant Company in 2000, leading over 70 PACS engagements. In 2008, Joseph returned to private practice—where he has been an active promoter and consultant on enterprise image management and accessibility, assisting a number of facilities with strategy and implementation services.
Prior to the above, he spent 18 years with GE Healthcare, and was a guiding force behind GE’s early CT and PACS initiatives, including a JV with IBM.
Joseph has chaired PACS industry conference sessions and is widely published. Through his blog for Healthcare Innovations publication, he encourages input on the importance of image integration, its priority amongst IT projects, budget levels, the level of subject-matter understanding among IT professionals, impediments to implementation, as well as other relevant issues.