Radiology IT needs to learn from Amazon
Healthcare IT is five years behind the technology used in other sectors and needs to learn from the best commercial operators available, the Radiological Society of North America heard.
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Peer review to improve care
Radiologist peer review should be used to improve care rather than measure performance or identify underperforming radiologists, the Radiological Society of North America 2013 conference heard on Monday.
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Radiologists ‘face battery hen future’
Outsourcing powered by technology will be the death of radiology as we know it in this country, a debate at UKRC concluded.
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CCIO profile: Shona Campbell
University Hospitals of Leicester has not one but two clinical IT leaders. Claire Read talks to one of them; senior radiologist Dr Shona Campbell.
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Tablets here to stay in radiology
The shift to mobile health is underway, is global, human and accelerating, a session on tablet computing at ECR 2013 heard.
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Analyse this
There was excitement but also some trepidation about the future at this year’s European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. Michael Reiter reports.
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Croydon courts GPs with ordering system
Croydon University Hospital is implementing Sunquest’s Integrated Clinical Environment to provide an electronic ordering system for GPs.
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Bolton and Siemens sign radiology deal
Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it has signed a multi-million pound managed equipment service agreement with Siemens Healthcare. The 15-year contract will see the trust receive the latest radiology equipment alongside maintenance of its existing systems and user training. Under the deal, five digital radiography x-ray rooms, three mobile x-ray systems, a […]
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EU framework for teleradiology discussed
Concerns about the legal and medical issues surrounding teleradiology will be aired at a meeting of experts gathered at the European Congress of Radiology, ECR 2010, in Vienna this week.
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Dorset invests in Carestream PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a contract to supply a Carestream PACS, high resolution diagnostic mammography workstations and integrated radiology information system to Dorset Breast Screening Unit. Five high resolution diagnostic workstations will be based at Poole Hospital and will allow radiologists to enhance and manipulate images. The screening unit provides mammographic services to more than […]
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