When IT professionals from Radiology and other image-generating departments merge with the enterprise IT team that provides IT infrastructure and support for enterprise-wide solutions, employee angst and culture friction can occur.

The same thing can happen when imaging IT teams historically working at different sites are merged to a single group, or when imaging informatics professionals (IIPs) from different healthcare service lines, like Radiology and Cardiology, are put into the same team.

In this paper published in Journal of Digital Imaging (JDI), all these topics are covered, along with things to consider when managing (or undergoing) these team consolidations, and tips for success.