Events: ECR 2010
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
Improving clinical workflow in a university department
At Mannheim University Medical Centre five MR units are currently installed - the Magnetom Tim Trio, 2 x Magnetom Avanto, Magnetom Sonata and the new Magnetom Skyra, which was …
03/07/2010
Radiology and the Law
The threat of litigation is becoming an increasing area of concern in radiology circles. The changing role of the radiologist with a growing workload and more information now …
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
Hybrid Imaging: today and tomorrow
Spurred on by the success of PET/CT and the collaboration of radiology and nuclear medicine, further techniques such as PET/MR or SPECT/CT have been developed, bringing imaging …
03/07/2010
Nuclear medicine fuses with radiology in joint session
A special feature of this year’s scientific program at ECR 2010 was a joint session organized by the European Association for Nuclear Medicine with the European Society of …
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
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
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 …
03/07/2010
IT and Networking
The key to implementing PACS installations networked to multiple hospitals is fully to establish in advance exactly what clinical scenario needs to be satisfied. In her lecture, …
03/07/2010
New approach to reduce dose
GE Healthcare is highlighting advanced solutions that drive the efficiency of diagnostic imaging at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), 2010. Complementing the company’s …
03/07/2010
Image Central for multi-discipline image management
Sectra launched a solution for efficient management of all medical imaging across departments throughout the entire enterprise, from radiology to the hospital photographer. …
03/07/2010
Everything for radiology
First introduced at ECR 2010, Agfa HealthCare’s DX-M is a CR solution able to handle both needle-based detector plates (NIP), as well as standard phosphor plates (PIP). The …
03/07/2010
iNtuition from TeraRecon delivers at the speed of care
TeraRecon, Inc. announced new innovations to Aquarius iNtuition solution at the 22nd European Congress of Radiology, March 4-8, 2010 in Vienna, Austria. TeraRecon’s iNtuition …
03/06/2010
The European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise (ENCITE)
Since June 2009, the focus of research in the European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise (ENCITE) has been on finding biomarkers to aid cell transplantation. Funded …
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