HealthManagement, Volume 13 - Issue 1, 2013
Image credit: Dr. Mansoor Fatehi
The
first Iranian seminar on Management in Radiology was held in Tehran on
2-3 February 2013. The meeting was aimed at providing update training on
the hot topics in radiology management. The major themes of the meeting
were safety and protection, quality management, strategic management
and imaging economics.
The Iranian society of
radiology (ISR) invited Prof. Peter Mildenberger as the honorary
president of the meeting together with Prof. Utku Senol from Turkey as
guest speaker. The chairman of the seminar was Dr. Mansoor Fatehi, the
general secretary of ISR and director of Medical Imaging Informatics
Research and Education Centre (MIIREC) in Tehran. Although management
issues have been part of the programme of the annual meeting of the
Iranian society of radiology, this was the first dedicated meeting to
cover only radiology management topics.
The meeting was supported by local vendors of mostly informatics solutions as exhibitors and Shimaparto Company
(distributor
of Shimadzo, Infinitt & few other company products in Iran) was the
main sponsor. In total 163 people attended.
As an
outcome of this meeting, it was decided to establish IHE Iran with the
technical support of IHE Turkey (as part of the agreement signed between
the Iranian and Turkish Societies of Radiology for local and regional
collaborations). In addition, research on appropriateness in radiology
and controlled terminology of radiology will be part of a joint local
effort in MIIREC.
