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IT Outsourcing: The View From the Top
Black Book Market Research recently released insightful figures on attitudes toward IT outsourcing in healthcare. To remain solvent and technologically advanced Black Book said hospital executives realise they need to “evaluate and leverage next generation information and financial systems as an outsourced service” (Black Book, 2015). The company found...
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European Diagnostic Reference Levels for Paediatric Imaging
An update on the EC tender project PiDRL Despite a large number of studies available from European countries, the European DRLs for paediatric patients are only available for some common radiological examinations. There is a need to consolidate what is available and to provide guidance on what actions are needed in using DRLs to further enhance...
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Challenges of Preparing Students For Careers in the NHS
England’s National Health Service (NHS) is facing significant challenges in finding and retaining senior resource. The average tenure of a trust CEO is just 2.5 years and almost one third of all trusts have at least one vacancy or an interim executive board member. So it’s safe to say the NHS isn’t ‘spoilt for choice’ when filling senior vacancies....
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CT Diagnosis of Suspected Acute Aortic Syndrome
Protocols For Timely And Accurate Assessment Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening condition which requires urgent and immediate treatment. AAS can be diagnosed by using computed tomography (CT) imaging, but it is important that key protocols are followed in order to optimise scanning parameters. These recommendations, published...
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ESGAR Consensus Statement on Liver MR Imaging
Clinical Use of Liver-Specific Contrast Agents The European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) formed a multinational European panel of experts, selected on the basis of a literature review and their leadership in the field of liver magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, to develop a consensus and provide updated recommendations...
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Prostate Self-care and Awareness
Men Lag Behind In an ideal world, there is no answer to the common question of what we would recommend men of all ages to do or change in their lifestyles to reduce the prospects of prostate cancer. Unfortunately, we don’t know what causes prostate cancer, but what we do know is that a healthy lifestyle (equilibrated food and healthy exercise)...
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Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Management
Clinical Trial to Test If MRI Can Replace Current Standard of Care A team of scientists in Canada has secured funding for a three-year Phase III clinical trial focused on improving the way we biopsy for prostate cancer and whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can replace the current standard of care to diagnose prostate cancer. The...
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Ultrasound Fights Cancer With Microbubbles
Sonoporation with Chemotherapy Increases Porosity of Pancreatic Cells Introduction By enhancing the ability of cells to absorb chemotherapeutics, an ultrasound technique has nearly doubled the median patient survival time from diagnosis in a phase I clinical trial. During our research at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway,...
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Radiology in Iran – Coming Out of Sanctions
An Overview The Iranian Society of Radiology (ISR ) is the largest in the Middle East and Levant region, with the only other country with more radiologists in this area being Turkey. Presently, there are about 2,400 radiologists practicing in Iran – the Iranian society was founded in 1966 and is now one the largest and best organised...
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