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Latest Updates from Leading European Associations
Dates Announced for 2008 EuroPACS Meeting Next year’s EuroPACS meeting is to be held June 25 - 28, 2008, Barcelona, Spain, in conjunction with CARS. The conference programme will offer information on the latest and most significant developments in clinical practice, research and education within digital radiology, including: •...
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Focus on Interventional Radiology Equipment: Technology Drives Clinical Practice
Author Jason Launders Senior Project Officer ECRI Institute [email protected] Interventional radiology (IR) refers to a wide range of minimally invasive procedures in which radiology equipment is used to guide interventions, such as stenting, biopsy, embolisation, and ablation.While guidance can be achieved with...
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The Role of DICOM in Therapy: Coping with Rise in Demand for Surgical Services
Author Prof. Heinz U. Lemke Chairman DICOM Working Group 24 DICOM in Surgery [email protected] A recent report predicted the rise in demand for surgical services to be up to 47% by 2020. Difficulties that are already apparent in the Operating Room (OR), such as the lack of seamless integration of Surgical...
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Audit and Accreditation: Defining Quality for Medical Imaging
Dear readers, There are a number of definitions of quality. The English dictionary provides three, of which the initial one explains it as the degree of excellence of a thing. However, where medical imaging is concerned, this precise definition needs to be elucidated in order to provide a benchmark for both customers and providers. ...
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Last Call for Participants at CIRSE 2007!
CIRSE 2007 will take place September 8-12, Athens, Greece at the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre. Highlights of the scientific programme are outlined below. Scientific Programme For CIRSE 2007, the programme has been designed around five main themes.This years main topics are: • Vascular intervention; • Transcatheter...
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EU Campaign Targets Safety and Health at Work
Focus on Musculoskeletal Disorders Author Dervla Gleeson Managing Editor IMAGING Management [email protected] The European ‘Lighten the Load’ campaign has been initiated to promote an integrated management approach to tackle musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) embracing prevention of MSDs, and...
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Coverage of corporate news and updates
GE Healthcare Centricity RIS-IC Earns Certification GE Healthcare’s Integrated IT Solutions (IITS) business has announced that its Centricity RIS-IC services organisation has achieved certification under the Service Capability & Performance (SCP) Standards programme. GE Healthcare’s IITS business achieved certification under the SCP...
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Is Academic Radiology in the UK Dead? A Personal View
Author Prof.Alan Jackson Professor of Radiology Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering The Medical School Manchester, UK [email protected] The decline of candidates for academic training, the resultant The decline of candidates for academic training, the resultant lack of published...
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Uterine Fibroid Embolisation: Ensuring Post-Procedural Best Practice
Author Thomas J. Kroencke Department of Radiology Humboldt University Medical School Campus Charité Mitte Berlin, Germany Interventional radiologists play as important a role in post-procedural processes as they do during pre-procedure evaluation and the intervention itself. Patients consider the...
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Overview of the Healthcare System in Estonia: A Personal View
Author Margus Ulst Member of the Executive Board Tartu University Hospital Tartu, Estonia [email protected] One of three Baltic states, Estonia covers an area of 45,227km 2 , making it slightly bigger than Holland but with a population density ten times less. Estonia's population (1.34...
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