Join an International Audience of Management Experts! Given the discussion-provoking and even controversial views presented at last year’s edition, this year’s annual Management in Radiology (MIR) conference, set to take place in Oxford, England from Wednesday, October 10, to Saturday, October 13, 2007, promises to raise even greater awareness...
READ MOREThe recently-held 25th Annual International EuroPACS Meeting, held in conjunction with the CARS congress, from June 27 – 30, 2007, in Berlin, Germany, addressed a wide range of information technologies and related topics. With cutting-edge themes ranging from regional PACS and teleradiology, to architecture, workstations and archiving, the conference...
READ MOREThe 21st International Congress and Exhibition of CARS 2007 (Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery) was successfully held at the International Conference Centre in Berlin with 945 Registrants from 46 countries. The CARS meeting was also home to the 11th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery; the 9th International...
READ MORERegistration for next year’s eighth instalment of the IHE-Europe Oxford Connectathon, to be held at St Catherine’s College in the centre of Oxford, UK, will open on September 15, 2007 and close December 7, 2007. Participants will benefit from the success of previous events, to ensure that interoperability remains a hot topic and to ensure the...
READ MOREAuthor Dr Conall J. Garvey Consultant Radiologist Royal Liverpool University Hospital Liverpool, UK [email protected] Healthcare in the UK is undergoing a major restructuring. New untested independent healthcare providers are appearing on the scene, especially in medical imaging, making it crucial...
READ MOREClinical audit is a continuous improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change.A cyclical approach to comparison of practice against the standard with implementation of changes has led to the audit spiral concept, leading onwards and upwards...
READ MOREAuthor Dr Howard Galloway Chief Radiologist Aspetar Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital Sports City Doha, Qatar [email protected] The Quality Use of Diagnostic Imaging (QUDI) programme is an initiative administered by the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Radiologists...
READ MOREAuthor Dr Pilvi Ilves Associate Professor/Docent of Radiology Department of Radiology Faculty of Medicine The University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia [email protected] The University of Tartu, founded in 1632 is a national university in Estonia uniting different branches of science.The Faculty...
READ MOREAuthor Mare Lintrop Department of Radiology Tartu University Hospital Tartu, Estonia [email protected] The majority of physicians working in Estonia are graduates from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tartu. Until the mid-1970s, it was necessary to complete a full six years of studies...
READ MOREI nterviewee Dr Rene Van Tiggelen Curator Belgian Museum of Radiology Brussels, Belgium [email protected] _ Why did You Decide to Launch a Museum of Radiology, and What were the Challenges in Doing So? I am also a great admirer of Professor Röntgen’s, who did not take out any patent for...
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