Keywords: Education & Training
03/08/2010
The Hospital Management Symposium 2010
What a success! On 6 March, ECR meeting room K was filled to capacity when congress president Professor Małgorzata Szczerbo-Trojanowska opened the Hospital Management Symposium …
03/07/2010
Radiology and Management
Professor Jörg F. Debatin, MD MBA, Medical Director and Chairman of the Board of University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) opened the session with his presentation “The role …
03/07/2010
Hospitals and Cost Management
No more healthcare myopia! Although Szabolcs Dorotovics, MD MBA and Managing Director for Global Ventures at Johns Hopkins Medicine International, Baltimore, USA, is not an …
03/07/2010
Updating opinions on radiation dose levels
Under constant and continuing debate, and given the increasing use of CT and interventional imaging, the issue of radiation dose management was the focus of an ECR session with Dr …
03/07/2010
Cost Management in Radiology
At this year’s HMS, André Hoppen, MD MSc, Sales Manager for VR MEDICO, Germany, looked at the most important decision-making criteria from the perspective of a financial …
03/07/2010
Radiology and Staff Managment
“Digital technology has come a long way: today, it is easy to produce thousands of radiological images – but who will read them?” Good question. In her presentation, Maria …
03/07/2010
Process Management and Radiology
Increasingly, hospitals have to find ways to optimise the capacity, efficiency and utilization of their MRI services. David Wormald, Integrated Assistant Vice President for …
03/07/2010
Medical Engineering and IT
“The problem between information technology and medical engineering may stem from sequential processing and intermeshing”, Peter Gocke, MD, said. Sounds difficult? But the …
03/07/2010
Turf Battles in IT
The introduction of digital imaging in all fields of radiology and digital workflow using RIS and PACS has led to fundamental changes in the daily work of radiologist. Professor …
03/07/2010
IT and Workflow
How can speech recognition become a workflow improver instead of a road to frustration? Kaye Bonython, Programme Manager, Imaging Informatics & OSL, HCA’s Portland Hospital for …
03/06/2010
The new world of biomarkers
While biomarkers are acknowledged as useful tools in the early assessment of patient response to treatment, radiologists are less clear on how they can be applied in clinical …
02/19/2010
European Patients’ Forum Launches New Website
The European Patients Forum (EPF) redesigned its website as a vital communication tool for its members and for the health community as a whole. This decision resulted in an …
01/26/2010
A fitness checkup for healthcare IT
Two Hitachi bundles, Discovery and start-up, which are currently only available in Germany, have been produced to enable more effective storage management. ‘Specialised …
01/21/2010
The 12th Düsseldorf International Endoscopy Symposium
In an address inviting nurses and doctors to attend the 12th Düsseldorf International Endoscopy Symposium, held from February 5-6, Professor Horst Neuhaus and Dr Brigitte …
01/08/2010
ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging now available
The idea of publishing a Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging which accumulates the expertise of European cardiovascular imagers, is long awaited. The new textbook by the European …
11/20/2009
The increasing importance of clinical lab scientists
Clinical laboratory scientists, the medical technologists of the 21st century, are not only enjoying a rapidly expanding role in clinical work but are also increasingly …
11/18/2009
E-learning for SERVO-i with NAVA
NAVA is a new mechanical ventilation method in which the ventilator is controlled directly by the patient's neural breath control, and is incorporated in Maquet´s Servo-i system. …
11/18/2009
An English language programme within the MEDICA Congress
Every November the exhibition centre in Düsseldorf becomes a beehive of activity for four days, when 17 halls are transformed into the biggest market for medical technology …
11/17/2009
Inequalitites: The public health puzzle
Bettina Döbereiner continues her reports on theories, policy strategies and current projects aired in the Berlin conference Reducing Health Inequalities. What do we really know …
11/17/2009
Experts fear for Europe’s medical engineering
When over 3,000 international experts gathered at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Munich, Germany to evaluate future trends, they heard that …
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