Reading Time: 4 minutes readEditor’s Note: The following is a guest blog post by Gillian Tickall, Chief Radiographer at The Alfred. The Alfred is a major tertiary referral teaching hospital that provides the most comprehensive range of specialist medical and surgical services in Victoria, Australia. Tickall kindly shares […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes readEditor’s Note: Sherri Ford is a Mammography Technologist at Premier Imaging in High Point, NC. She has her A.A.S. degree in Radiological Technology and a B.S. in Health Administration. She has over 19 years experience in the mammography field ranging from […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes readThe final measures of stage 2 meaningful use start the 2nd chapter in changing the way all specialties will practice medicine. For radiology, incorporation of patient images into the patient’s clinical record as a specific measure opened the door for future […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes readA complete change in imaging strategy for a teaching and research hospital with nearly 800 beds and 200,000 radiology patients a year is no small feat. For the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel) Hospital, its digital transition began a decade ago with […]
Reading Time: 1 minute readOne of the best things about AHRA is the opportunity to hear directly from radiology managers about their successes and challenges. Malissa Smith, Radiology Manager at Dekalb Medical Center in Georgia swung by the Carestream booth at AHRA 2012 to discuss […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes readAt the beginning of the year I posed an interesting question to Cheryl Malcolmson, RT (R), Manager, Diagnostic Imaging, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Canada: “Can I interest you in a test drive?” No, I wasn’t selling her a Volvo. But I […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes readEditor’s Note: At the end of May, Spain’s radiology community converged in Granada at the Sociedad Espanola de Radiologia Medica (SERAM). Dr. Francisco Javier Rodríguez Recio, Head of Radiodiagnostics at the Hospital of Segovia and Communication Director for the SERAM Board of […]
Reading Time: 1 minute readBack in 2009, USA Today reported that “Each of the nation’s 5,700 hospitals must cut $2.6 million a year on average in costs in the next 10 years to meet the demands of President Obama’s proposed health care reform, a daunting […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes readEditor’s Note: Boris Alvarez, project consultant for Medical Technology School, Universidad San Sebastián , in Santiago Chile, shared his thoughts with us on the difference between public and private healthcare, digital x-ray technology and the importance of continuing education and networking. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes readGuest Post: Greg Freiherr, a frequent contributor to Medscape and Diagnostic Imaging Europe, as well as a consultant to the medical imaging industry The medical community goes through phases, usually sparked by a technological advance or change in sociopolitical thought. The […]