radiology

If so, most of his income would be from several radiology businesses.

There is outsourcing of legal review and radiology, but still not on the scale of programming.

True, but I knew about the lifestyle when I picked radiology, and it is a very hard residency to get.

Computer systems are not linked -- ie, we have to type the patient's name into both the radiology system and the medical records system.

Much of the advances in consumer technology from the past decade are not yet available in radiology.

[1] The highest averge earning speciality is not surgery but radiology at $315,000.

The 1/3 board failure rate notwithstanding, my intuition is that there are far more people capable of practicing radiology than are currently allowed to try to get into the field.

I'd say that both of us are unqualified to state the degree of effectiveness of computational geometry and computer vision in radiology.

I knew a radiation oncologist in the late 90s, and his reason for becoming a webapp startup founder instead was that radiology was destroying him: in that field, most of your patients die, rather than being cured.

Lots of US hospitals already use offshore radiology services who interpret various medical imaging tests taken in the overnight hours an report back the findings.

In fact, I introduced their product to an organization that is used by large hospital chains to outsource radiology reports to, these guys have tens of full-time, in-house radiologists looking at hundreds of reports all day, every day.

In terms of disruptive technologies in radiology, I don't think that computers will be able to replace radiologists any time soon, but there are lots of ways that computers could help radiologists be more productive or accurate.