The European Commission organised an "EU High-Level Conference on Mental Health", which took place on the 13 June 2008 in Brussels. The conference will be a follow-up to the consultation on the Commission's Green Paper on Mental Health of 2005. The conference focused on four themes: • Prevention of Suicide and Depression,...
READ MOREThe eHealth 2008 conference,with the theme of ‘eHealth without frontiers’ was held in Slovenia between May 6-7, 2008.This is the sixth in a series of high-level eHealth conferences that have taken place since 2003, and the first held in one of Europe’s new Member States.These conferences are key dates in the eHealth annual policy awareness-raising...
READ MOREAuthor ChrisWright Senior Lecturer University of Cumbria Cumbria, United Kingdom [email protected] . Maintenance of equipment post warranty is a major challenge to radiologymanagers. As one of the largest organisational costs, the need for efficient management is paramount.However, the level...
READ MOREAuthor Dr. David Harvey Medical Connections Swansea Wales, United Kingdom [email protected] Since the introduction of PACS, vendors have gone to great lengths to ensure that the products they supply provide the users with the functionality they most need, from both a clinical and administrative perspective...
READ MOREAssessing Cost-Effectivenessin the Radiology Department Authors Helen Cole Imaging Cluster Manager Lizzy Bower Health Economist Centre for Evidencebased Purchasing London, UK [email protected] In September 2005, the Centre for Evidence- Based Purchasing (CEP) was created within the...
READ MOREAuthors Dr. Burkhard Roessink Dr.Hugo Flaten Global Pharmacovigilance GE Healthcare Oslo, Norway [email protected] Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) is a rare, but potentially serious, acquired systemic disease that has been associated with the use of gadolinium-based contrast agents...
READ MOREAuthor Dr. Ian Arrowsmith Chief Terminologist UK Terminology Centre NHS Connecting for Health [email protected] The national deployment of Picture Archive & Communication Systems (PACS) and imaging information systems as part of the English National Programme for IT combined with the move...
READ MOREAuthors Prof. Peter Lind Head Department of Nuclear Medicine & Endocrinology PET/CT Center Klagenfurt Klagenfurt, Austria Also, Dr. S. Eder Prof. H.J. Gallowitsch Dr. S. Kohlfürst Th. Kopema D.I. M. Weigelt K. Friesacher ISO 9001:2000 is a quality...
READ MOREAuthor: This profile is provided by the Faculty of Radio - logists in Ireland. A full version can be found on the website of the Faculty at: www.rcsi.ie The Faculty of Radiologists at the Royal College of Surgeons is the professional and academic body for clinical radiologists in Ireland. It...
READ MOREAgfa HealthCare Awarded New Contract Agfa HealthCare has been awarded a new three-year contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., to provide film and medical imagers to the healthcare alliance's 2,000 member hospitals and 53,000 other alternate healthcare sites in the US. Effective September 1, 2008, this agreement adds to...
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