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The Prague Declaration: Spotlight on E-Health
The e-Health Conference 2009 in Prague (e-Health for Individuals, Society and Economy) has been followed by the release of the Prague Declaration. This emphasises the progress already made in e-Health by both Member States and the European Union. It also notes that the benefits of e-Health for a safe and efficient health sector have long been recognised...
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Carestream Laser Imager Approved by FDA
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has given marketing clearance to a tabletop laser imager from Carestream Health for digital mammography and general radiography applications. The company will begin taking orders immediately for its CARESTREAM DRYVIEW 5850 Laser Imager and has already begun shipments in the US and other countries. The new...
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Siemens Install Digital Mammography Solution
A MAMMOMAT Inspiration™ Full-Field Direct Digital Mammography system from Siemens Healthcare has been installed at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, part of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, to enable symptomatic patients to be imaged with the latest technology. The Inspiration was installed to replace an existing analogue system, as part...
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EIBIR Announces New EuroAIM Leader
EIBIR has named Dr. Francesco Sardanelli from Milan, Italy, as the new lead of the EuroAIM initiative, a network to assess radiological technology. EuroAIM was set up to assist in the formation of consortia to perform meta-analyses, i.e. pooled analyses of existing prospectively collected datasets using individual patient level data from completed...
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EU Adopts Legal Framework for European Research Infrastructures
An agreement has been reached on a legal framework for the establishment of European research infrastructures. Currently, national and EU laws do not meet the needs of complex research infrastructures with par tners in many countries. Under the new legal framework, Member States wishing to host a European research infrastructure will have to declare...
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Adds Tomosynthesis to Its Suite of State-of-the-Art Digital Mammography Technologies
One of the largest teaching hospitals in France, the University Hospital of Montpellier prides itself on utilising stateof- the-art technology to provide the highest levels of patient care, teaching, and research. Its radiology department is the major imaging resource for women’s health in the area, supporting the University Hospital as well as a second...
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Operating a Call Centre For Scheduling & Appointments
The call centre for scheduling and appointments in an imaging department is a strategic operational element of the unit. Imaging patients generally make their appointments either by phone or on the spot. Emails are an occasional alternative, but a phonecall remains essential for confirmation purposes. The speed and quality of the phone response...
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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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