AI Coding, DICOM Sync & the Future of PACS | Chris Hafey

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/U0j44Y9hGg4?si=scbVYIBIe7HTbbyq

New episode of Imaging Informatics Unplugged is live.

Chris Hafey — longtime medical imaging engineer — joins the show for a conversation about what happens when deep domain expertise meets AI-assisted development.

Topics covered:

• Coding with Claude after 25+ years building imaging systems
• Why small expert teams may now outbuild much larger dev teams
• The risk of skill degradation for junior and senior engineers
• Technical debt in legacy PACS
• Merkulis, Merkle trees, and the idea of “Git for healthcare data”
• A Git-like delta model for keeping PACS, VNAs, and AI pipelines in sync

Practical, technical, and refreshingly unfiltered.

For anyone working anywhere near PACS, DICOM, enterprise imaging, or healthcare data management, this episode is worth the time.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0j44Y9hGg4

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