Events: HMS
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Hospital Management Symposium 2011
Radiology is always on the move - but where is it heading? Towards turf battles with other disciplines? A shortage of young talents? Or towards new perspectives with molecular …
02/25/2011
HMS 2011: Get the program!
Last year, the Hospital Management Symposium attrackted more than 300 visitors. This years´event - taking place on Saturday, March 5 from 2 pm - 6:30 pm - has what it takes to …
02/24/2011
The role of molecular imaging within the future diagnostic concept
Molecular imaging (MI) is reported as an increasingly important diagnostic field for radiologists to focus on. However, molecular imaging should not be considered a new discipline …
02/11/2011
Steps to cope with ‘turf war’
Turfing is a subversive activity based on a variety of economic and prestigious interests. It is opposed to the trend in modern medicine towards harmonisation, ordinate formation …
02/11/2011
Concerns: What can be done about the lack of young radiologists in Europe?
Radiologists play a main part in the majority of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. For this reason a staff shortage in radiology departments severely compromises the quality …
02/11/2011
Prospects: Radiology is on a most advanced pathway in molecular imaging
Molecular imaging (MI) appears as an unavoidable challenge for the future of imaging, because MI is able to characterise cellular and molecular processes and will serve as a guide …
02/11/2011
Educate patients about the radiologist’s role in their treatment
'What can we do about the lack of young radiologists in Europe?’ ECR 2010 congress president Professor Małgorzata Szczerbo-Trojanowska will discuss the background to this …
02/11/2011
Radiologists are turning into diagnosticians
Rapid advances in medicine and technology have led to a change in the job description for radiologists. With image acquisition and evaluation increasingly carried out by machines, …
02/11/2011
Improving the job’s attractions to enhance recruitment
‘The demand for radiology procedures, even on a 24/7/365 basis, seems to increase faster than the number of new radiologists. The shortage of radiologists creates a service …
02/11/2011
Improving the radiologist’s standing among peers from other disciplines
The first question we should ask is whether we only lack radiologists or whether we lack medical doctors in general. If the answer is that we do not have enough specialists …
02/11/2011
Molecular Imaging – Challenges for the Young Generation at the Dawn of Clinical Translation
Molecular Imaging (MI) emerged in the early 21st Century as a discipline at the junction of molecular biology and in vivo imaging to enable the visualisation of the cellular …
02/11/2011
Emergence of hybrid PET-MRI: first clinical experience
Whole-body hybrid PET-MR scanners are emerging on the market and are expected to have a significant impact in diagnostic imaging particularly in oncology applications and also in …
02/11/2011
Combating industrial competition for better patient care
Innovation in imaging in the last decades was mainly driven by new imaging modalities, better image quality and improved workflow tools to enhance diagnostic quality and …
02/11/2011
The challenges to radiology caused by turf battles
There are several reasons why turf battles for imaging occur: 1) Medical imaging has become essential for the diagnosis, treatment planning and patient follow-up. 2) …
04/12/2010
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 …
04/12/2010
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 …
04/12/2010
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 …
04/12/2010
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 …
04/12/2010
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 Lohm, …
04/12/2010
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 …
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