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Workflow Scheduling with Multiple Equipments Requirements
The Case for MRI & CT Scanning Scheduling appointments plays a crucial role in the smooth administration of the radiology department, particularly when multiple pieces of equipment have to be managed simultaneously. Access to modalities is assigned according to different sectors’ requirements and volume of activity. All radiological appointments...
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Managing Medical Imaging Appointments
Authors Dr. Sylvia Neuenschwander G. Scamps A. Livartowski Ph. Rizand Medical Imaging Department Curie Institute Paris, France sylvia.neuenschwander@ curie.net Case Study - The Curie Institute The Curie Institute enjoys a relatively privileged situation, as a medium-sized establishment, with an efficient computer system, a large...
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Applying a “Business Process Reengineering” Model to Radiology
Part I: Six Steps for Streamlining Exam Processes Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a philosophy that advocates restructuring an organisation, based around processes rather than the individual tasks that take place in the organisation. The idea is that by approaching workflow without deference to traditional business models, one can analyse...
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Hitach`s APERTO Open MRI Unparalleled for Patient Care & Cost-Effectiveness
There are three main reasons why Mark Sherratt, Radiology Services Manager at the Bronglais Hospital, part of the Ceredigion and Mid-Wales NHS Trust in Wales, UK, is extremely pleased with the facility’s latest equipment purchase, a Hitachi Medical Systems Europe APERTO Open MRI scanner: increased patient care and satisfaction, sharp image quality...
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PACS in the Cardiology Department
Report on Market Developments Managing cross-departmental communications in a healthcare setting has been greatly improved by the emergence of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) as a vital supporting infrastructure, with specialists in healthcare departments like orthopaedics, neurology, oncology, histology and cardiology improving...
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Driving Quality Standards in Paediatric Echocardiography
How to Cultivate Leadership and Teamwork Echocardiographic imaging has evolved into the key diagnostic modality in paediatric cardiac care. Its role has expanded beyond that of initial diagnosis; intracardiac echo is now used during interventional cases in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory, transthoracic echo is the pre- and post-operative...
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Radiation Exposure in Computed Radiography
How Can Patients be Protected? exposure and therefore is of international concern. Even the lowest amount of exposure to ionising radiation has some risk. According to Prasad et al. (2004), accurately determining radiation-induced cancer risk in humans is difficult due to biological variability, environment, and lifestyle related factors. Consensus...
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Interview With Dr. Jorg F. Debatin
Prof. Dr. Jörg F. Debatin, 47, is medical director and CEO of the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf since 2003. Here, the author of 30 reviews, 6 books, 1,000 scientific presentations, and more than 300 invited lectures, and former radiology department leader tells us about life as hospital CEO. We also learn about the five-year restructuring...
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Overview of Healthcare in Poland
Portrait of a System Under Pressure The Republic of Poland is the largest country in central and eastern Europe, in terms of both population (38.2 million) and area (312,685 km2). In 1989, Poland was the first country among the central and eastern European countries to re-establish democracy after 44 years of communist rule. After a severe economic...
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The Contribution of Poland to Radiology
A Snapshot of its Pioneers and Inventors The first news about Konrad Wilhelm Roentgen's great discovery in Poland was published by Kraków-based daily "Time" as early as January 8, 1896. Soon the first experiments with x-rays were begun. In Kraków between January 8 and 15, 1896 the Jagiellonian University professor of chemistry Karol Olszewski,...
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