Cardiac imaging is a crucial component in the management of cardiac patients, and as such it influences multiple, inter-related parts of the clinical workflow: physician-patient contact, image acquisition, image pre-and post-processing, study reporting, diagnostics and outcome predictions, medical interventions, and, finally, knowledge-building through clinical research. With the gradual and ubiquitous infiltration of artificial intelligence into cardiology, it has become clear that, when used appropriately, it will influence and potentially improve -through automation, standardization and data integration─ all components of the clinical workflow. The aim of this review is to present a comprehensive vision of a full integration of artificial intelligence into the standard clinical patient management ─with a focus on cardiac imaging, but applicable to all information handling-and discuss current barriers that remain to be overcome before the wide-spread implementation and integration.