This document discusses data democratization in healthcare imaging. It describes the challenges facing healthcare like declining inpatient volumes and the need for better patient experiences. It advocates empowering physicians and patients with data-driven insights to enhance decision making centered around patients. Data democratization is defined as lowering barriers to comprehensive, consistent and reliable healthcare data for all stakeholders. Achieving it requires business model innovation, developing an open ecosystem through community innovation, and technology innovation to provide secure access to standardized data. The benefits include making data actionable to focus on outcomes, value and better patient experiences.