• CARS 2012 Invites You to Pisa

    Taking place in Pisa, Italy, from June 27 – 30, the annual CARS congress is the yearly occasion where medicine and technology meet to present and discuss the key innovations that shape modern medicine on a worldwide basis. As is traditional, the ISCAS, EuroPACS, CAR, CAD and CMI societies will join CARS holding their own meetings are part of this...

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  • Another Successful IT@Networking Awards

    The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers is proud to present the Winners, Finalists and Nominees for the IT @ Networking Awards 2012 (IT @  2012). These fifteen medical technology and healthcare IT projects came to Brussels on the IT @ 2012 January to battle it out to win the coveted IT @ 2012 trophy and prize money.  Yet again the sheer...

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  • Structured Reporting

    Dear readers,  IMAGING Management has long stood for the professional development of competency and excellence, not just in medical imaging management, but all the ancillary roles of a healthcare leader. We are therefore delighted to support the first dedicated Management in Radiology (MIR) led workshop taking place on Saturday, March 3, at 13.00...

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  • Do Doctors Prefer Structured Radiology Reports?

    Radiology was born in December 1895. Not much later, doctors were reading and reporting x-ray images across the world. More than a century later, imaging technology has made quantum leaps forward, but reporting has changed very little. It has been proven time and again that radiologists as well as referring clinicians favour a shift from free text...

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  • Report Templates: Clinical Aspects & IT Requirements

    Radiology reports are the form of communication between radiologists and the referring clinical doctor. The referring clinical doctor sends a “radiology request card or letter”, which may be on paper or in electronic format. The IT system used for generating a radiology request is referred to as Ordercomms. Let us look at the clinical structure of...

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  • ECR President Prof. Lorenzo Bonomo on the Growth of the ECR and the Role of Management

    This year’s elected President of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Prof. Lorenzo Bonomo, is Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Director of the Radiology Training Programme at the Catholic University Sacro Cuore in Rome. Here he talks to IMAGING Management about what’s in store for attendees at this year’s ECR, the increasing importance...

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  • Departmental Management: Process Improvement

    Moving to an Organ-Based Workflow Today’s era of patient-centric medical/imaging care evolved from the modality specialists of the 1980s and ‘90s. It became obvious in subsequent years that radiology had to become more workflow-oriented, and be a more integral part of a multidisciplinary patient care team. At the same time, the arrival of...

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  • Market Predictions for Medical Imaging

    Many medical imaging markets experienced rapid decline as a result of the global recession, not just last year but in the years previous. Some segments of these markets are however, already recovering with strong growth prospects, while others are still struggling to return to pre-recession levels. InMedica analysts assessed a range of medical imaging...

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  • Imaging Referral Guidelines: Update from RCR’s iRefer Guidelines

    The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) of the UK has just released iRefer: Making the best use of clinical radiology. Despite the new name, this is the seventh edition of the radiology referral guidelines, demonstrating through more than 20 years support, the RCR’s commitment to the importance of guidelines in the delivery of radiology services...

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  • Hot Topics for Medical Imaging in Algeria: Business Management for Radiologists

    Please tell us about your professional career. Prof. Yaker: I specialised in interventional radiology techniques during four years of training in Paris in the public sector, and then returned to introduce interventional radiology to Algeria. Since 1993, I moved to the private sector and founded the Centre of Medical Imaging of Algiers (CIMA),...

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