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Implementing Lossy Compression
Canada is implementing a network of large data repositories designed to store all diagnostic imaging studies generated in hospitals and clinics across the country. There will be 18 such storage units covering all provinces, called DI-r (Digital Images Repositories). The goal of this project is to make all imaging studies available to healthcare professionals,...
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Using Email to Exchange Medical Data
Introduction The technological revolution that took place in radiology departments across the globe was first made easier by the implementation of viable Radiology Information Systems, followed by Picture Archiving and Communication Systems, while the DICOM standard was introduced in 1985 to help users communicate. By the end of the century, DICOM...
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Improving Radiation Safety Awareness Amongst Cardiologists & GPS
Please tell us how you became interested in the study and promotion of radiation safety. I am a cardiologist and a Senior Medical Researcher for the Italian National Research Council at the Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa. I am a clinical cardiologist with experience in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), database and epidemiological studies....
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Pros and Pitfalls of Paediatric Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
Despite the widespread use and proven efficacy of ultrasound (US) contrast media in the adult population, as showed in Table 1 (see pg. 39), contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) has not achieved the same level of diffusion in the paediatric population. The rare reports in the scientific literature denote their sporadic and experimental use, most likely in off-label...
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The Economics of Interventional Radiology
Healthcare teams naturally strive to provide patients with the most effective treatments, resulting in the best possible clinical outcomes. There are however, inevitable budgetary limits to which treatments and procedures can be made available. The economic impact of clinical decisions should therefore always be considered, especially as new technologies...
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Hot Topics
This edition's Hot Topics series looks to Sweden to find out what is going on in the field of research into the justification of contrast media in high-risk patients. Having studied with the inventor of non-ionic contrast media, Prof. Torsten Almén, who later collaborated with GE Healthcare, as well as Profs. Sundgren and Leander are carrying on this...
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Make I.T. Known: Marketing Strategies and Case Studies in the Healthcare Environment
This book is a guide to marketing your IT department within and to your hospital, health system or organisation. Communicating and promoting the purpose of your IT department, its importance to the healthcare organisation, and how the IT team's efforts make everyone's job easier and more productive are crucial to your department's... and your personal...
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Le management de la demande d’examens radiologiques
L'augmentation très importante du nombre d'examens en coupes - IRM et scanner - devient un fait préoccupant. Tout d'abord parce que ces examens, forcément plus complexes, entraînent une surcharge notable du travail des radiologues; également parce que l'on arrive, tout au moins en France, à une saturation des appareils d'où la difficulté d'accéder...
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Slovakia - epSOS Projectathon
An epSOS Projectathon was held in Slovakia to test whether the interoperability of country's healthcare systems meets epSOS specifications. The conclusion was a positive one with epSOS determining that 10 pilot sites can begin sharing real patient data from early next year. epSOS, a large scale European pilot of patient summary and electronic prescription,...
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Estonian Study on Patient Views on Health Digitisation
The Centre for Ethics at the University of Tartu is conducting a study analysing the effects of the digitisation of health data and of patient-doctor communications. In the last few years, Estonia has gradually digitized much of its healthcare system with health information moving to the Internet. Paper prescriptions have been replaced by digital prescriptions...
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