For women at high risk of breast cancer, use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plus xray mammography for screening will detect more breast cancers than mammography alone, says ECRI Institute in a new technology assessment report. But the number of false positives - indicating a problem where none exists - will rise significantly also. The report...
READ MOREDeveloping a System for Better Healthcare Authors Kyung-Hyun Do (above) Dong-Gyu Na Tae-Hwan Lim Korean Institute for Accreditation of Medical Image (KIAMI) Asan Medical Centre University of Ulsan College of Medicine Seoul, Korea [email protected] Lack of Quality...
READ MORESlow Adoption and Political Decisions Curb Growth Author Dr Anthony Stevens Medical Options Ltd. London, UK [email protected] With any technology that has sat on the shelf for a long time, a rise in sales is often viewed with some skepticism. Is this a false dawn, a blip only to be followed by a downturn?...
READ MOREECRI Institute, a non-profit organisation, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research in healthcare to uncover the best approaches to improving patient care. As pioneers in this science for nearly 40 years, ECRI Institute marries experience and independence with the objectivity of evidence-based research....
READ MOREAuthors Thomas J.Vogl (above) M.G. Mack T. Lehnert Department of Radiology Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany [email protected] There is much research and study taking place across Europe to...
READ MOREAgfa HealthCare Agfa HealthCare Selected by Heilig Hartziekenhuis Mol in Belgium Agfa HealthCare has announced that the Heilig Hartziekenhuis Mol hospital in Belgium has awarded it a significant contract to unify its medical workflow through the company's ORBIS(TM) solution. ORBIS is Agfa HealthCare's integrated Hospital and Clinical Information...
READ MOREAuthor Prof. Lluís Donoso Bach Director Centre de Diagnòstic per la Imatge Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain also Director UDIAT Centre Diagnòstic S.A. Corporació Sanitaria Parc Taulí Sabadell Barcelona, Spain [email protected] Teleradiology...
READ MOREAuthors Prof.Adrian K. Dixon MR Clinical Guardian Mr Philip Webster Head of Diagnostics Central Contract Management Unit Commercial Directorate Department of Health United Kingdom [email protected] 2004, the Department of Health (DH) in the UK announced a...
READ MOREAuthor Prof.Anthony Watkinson Professor of Interventional Radiology President of the British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR) The Peninsula Medical School The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Devon, UK [email protected] Interventional...
READ MOREAuthor Dr Michael Joffe Clinical Director Vista Diagnostics London, UK [email protected] A commissioner-based national study of the fifteen key diagnostic tests published by the Department of Health in the United Kingdom on the 18 April 2007 indicate that there are currently 733,273 patients waiting...
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