Events: HMS 2011

06/23/2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) …

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, …