Current Status in the United Kingdom and North America Author Dr. Denis Remedios Radiologist Northwick Park Hospital Harrow, UK [email protected] Referral guidelines for diagnostic and interventional radiology have been in existence for 20 years and have been published in the United Kingdom (the...
READ MOREAuthor Prof. Mathias Goyen Chief Executive Officer (CEO) UKE Consult and Management Hamburg, Germany [email protected] Health policymakers have focused on cost containment, for the past several decades, to deal with the rapid rise in healthcare costs in the western world. All kinds of measures...
READ MOREECRI Institute, a non-profit organisation, dedicates itself to bring ing the discipline of applied scientific research in healthcare to uncover the best approaches to improving patient care. As pioneers in this science for nearly 40 years, ECRI Institute marries experience and independence with the objectivity of evidence-based research. ...
READ MOREAuthor Dr. Hema Mistry Research Fellow in Health Economics Health Economics Research Group Brunel University Uxbridge Middlesex, UK [email protected] Clinical trials measure healthcare outcomes to determine the efficacy of healthcare interventions. Economic evaluations...
READ MOREAuthor Prof. Solveig Hofvind The Cancer Registry of Norway Oslo, Norway [email protected] According to Maja Primic-Zakelj, at the Epidemiology and Cancer Registry Unit, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, “Population-based cancer screening using evidence- based tests has considerable...
READ MOREAuthor Dr. Anthony Stevens CEO Medical Options Ltd. London, UK [email protected] Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is now an established technique for cancer diagnosis and is increasingly being used to follow-up cancer therapies. As a mature modality, the challenge now is for the molecular imaging...
READ MOREAuthor Lorrie A. LeGrand Baptist Hospital of Miami Department of Radiation Oncology Miami Florida, U.S . [email protected] Managing a radiation oncology department brings its own unique challenges. There are a multitude of work processes to consider and such a diverse group of employees...
READ MOREAuthor Dervla Gleeson Managing Editor IMAGING Management [email protected] The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) was designed to enhance the wellbeing of European workers to ensure that they are protected from being obliged by employers to carry out excessive hours, healthcare workers included. However,...
READ MOREAuthor Prof. Seppo Soimakallio Head of Department Department of Radiology Pirkanmaa Hospital District Tampere University Hospital Tampere, Finland [email protected] How is Medical Imaging Organised in Finland? Finland is divided into 20 hospital districts, each containing either...
READ MOREFinnish healthcare is divided into the public and private sectors. The public sector is significantly larger than the private sector in Finland. The private sector consists of small health centres and some specialised hospitals (e.g. for heart surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, etc.) mainly concentrated in cities. Citizens can choose freely between...
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