Organized Radiology Issues: Page 105

Improve MRI safety in Europe, urge medical physicists
By Wayne Forrest
The European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics recommends imaging centers take a two-level approach to improve MRI safety and eliminate accidents. It has found a wide variation in safety procedures in Europe, ranging from restrictive national standards to no MRI safety regulations at all, the organization reports in a policy statement published in the European Journal of Medical Physics.
March 12, 2013
2013 01 15 11 59 46 863 Safety First 70
European Radiology appoints new editor
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
European Radiology has named Dr. Maximilian Reiser, of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, as the journal's new editor in chief, effective January 2014. Reiser will replace Dr. Adrian Dixon, who has held the position since 2008.
March 11, 2013
2013 03 12 11 57 26 400 Reiser Dixon 20130313184915
ESC applauds EC medical device regulation proposals
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) said that the European Commission's proposal for a new regulation to govern the evaluation and approval of medical devices in Europe is an important step toward improving patient safety.
March 7, 2013
Pro Academia Prize awarded for 2013
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Round Table Foundation and European Magnetic Resonance Forum have awarded their Pro Academia Prize for 2013 to several scientists who have collaborated in an exemplary academic manner.
February 27, 2013
2013 03 01 07 52 16 442 2013 03 01 Nib Prize Winners
French imaging societies release appropriateness guide
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
La Société Française de Radiologie and the Société Française de Médecine Nucléaire et d'Imagerie Moléculaire have published an updated guide to good imaging use aimed at helping health professionals determine when imaging is appropriate and which exams are appropriate for a given indication.
February 21, 2013
Elsevier launches forensic radiology journal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Medical and scientific journal publisher Elsevier has launched the Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging, with its first issue dated January 2013.
February 10, 2013
Guidelines address nonsurgical stroke intervention
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology and several other medical societies have teamed to release new guidelines for interventional treatment of acute ischemic stroke.
February 5, 2013
Guidelines address nonsurgical stroke intervention
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology and several other medical societies have teamed to release new guidelines for interventional treatment of acute ischemic stroke.
February 5, 2013
IHE plans worldwide summit
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) will host its first annual IHE International World Summit on April 16 through 18 in Istanbul.
January 29, 2013
ACR donates film to Curie Museum in Paris
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) said it has donated to the Curie Museum in Paris a film of Marie Curie receiving the ACR Gold Medal in 1931. The film has been stored in the ACR archives for 81 years.
January 9, 2013
COCIR welcomes EC e-health plan
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical, and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR) has endorsed an e-health action plan published this month by the European Commission (EC).
December 23, 2012
IHE publishes new radiology white papers
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Radiology Technical Committee has published two new white papers this week, one on the subject of management of report templates and the other defining cross-enterprise screening mammography workflow.
December 20, 2012
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