I Work as a Consultant Radiologist for a National Referral Centre. I am a consultant radiologist in St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, part of the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group (SVHG). SVHG is composed of a large university teaching hospital, a smaller teaching hospital and a private hospital. There are 850 beds in SVHG....
READ MOREDear readers, Successful business requires a variety of management skills, but one essential factor is to project the business forward and evaluate future trends and technological advances both for the product range and methods, and delivery of services. Radiology is no different, and its success has been partly due to the far-sightedness of...
READ MOREDear colleagues, I write to urge you to attend the Management in Radiology (MIR) annual conference to be held in Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece from Wednesday 29 until Friday 31 October 2008. The local chairmen are Greek radiologists Prof. Nikolaos Batakis, Dr. Athanasios Chalazonitis and Dr. Fotios Takis. We have an exciting and interesting...
READ MOREDervla Gleeson Managing Editor IMAGING Management [email protected] Following its Consultation from early 2007, the Commission now is preparing its action on healthcare services and crossborder healthcare. In recent years these issues have been discussed widely at European level and the Commission has...
READ MOREFeedback Sought for Development of Clinical Standards Author Dr. Lawrence Lau Consultant Radiologist Chairman International Radiology Quality Network Sydney, Australia [email protected] The International Radiology Quality Network (IRQN) is a network of organisations established in 2002...
READ MOREAuthors Prof. Ioan Sporea (above) Prof. Alina Popescu Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania [email protected] During the last few years, medical specialties have expanded their use of ultrasound to examine certain...
READ MOREAuthor Wouter Verduyn Manager Department of Radiology Leiden University Medical Centre Leiden, The Netherlands [email protected] Radiology Gains Workflow Benefits Last year’s RIS/PACS (Sectra) implementation in the radiology department at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) has enabled significant...
READ MOREExperience of a Belgian Radiology Department Author Prof. Dr. K. Verstraete Chairman Department of Radiology Ghent University Hospital Ghent, Belgium [email protected] Ghent University Hospital (UZ Ghent) has 1,000 beds in the hospital in total, and 500 doctors. The radiology department...
READ MOREAuthor Dr. Annelies Rappaport Radiology Resident University Hospital of Leuven Leuven, Belgium [email protected] In the Flemish-speaking region of Belgium, Flanders, there are four large universities where one can pursue studies in medicine: Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven....
READ MOREHologic Receives Order for 17 Selenia Mobile Systems Hologic has announced that thay have received an order for 17 Selenia digital mammography mobile systems, the fi rst order placed under The Netherlands Breast Cancer Screening Tender. Installation will begin during the course of this summer. More than 50 additional digital mammography systems...
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