Medical, Legal, and Practice: Page 176

EC addresses isotope shortage

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Commission (EC) has sent to the European Parliament a series of recommendations designed to address the global medical isotope shortage and prevent unnecessary radiation exposure for CT and radiation therapy patients.

August 8, 2010

Rising health costs squeeze national budgets

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jul 1 - Spending on healthcare in OECD countries is rising faster than economic growth, piling pressure on budgets already hit by the 2008-2009 recession, according to data published on Tuesday.

June 30, 2010

Sectra gets Norwegian PACS order

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra has inked an agreement with a public Norwegian hospital chain.

June 29, 2010

Dutch study quantifies factors that make PACS work

By Eric Barnes

GENEVA - If you really want to find out how well PACS is working at your facility, you can follow your heart, the advice of experts, or the data, as researchers from the Netherlands have done. They discussed their work on quantifying the factors that make PACS useful at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery meeting.

June 24, 2010

TEPR founder sees big role for small systems in healthcare

By Eric Barnes

GENEVA - Radiology's once-clandestine toys -- mobile phone apps, iPads, iPhones, and the like -- are rising up to assume a central role in healthcare delivery, according to healthcare IT expert C. Peter Waegemann at the opening session of the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery meeting on Wednesday.

June 23, 2010

HIMSS launches HIMSS Analytics Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the formation of HIMSS Analytics Europe to provide healthcare organizations, governments, and IT companies with data resources and services for adopting and using healthcare IT in Europe.

June 23, 2010