Medical, Legal, and Practice: Page 44

Deadly MRI accident heads to court in India

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The saga of the January 2018 MRI accident that killed a man in India when he was sucked into the scanner's bore continued last week in a Mumbai courtroom.

September 2, 2019

RANZCR issues final version of ethical AI guidelines

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) has issued the final version of guidelines on the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The draft version of the guidelines was issued in February.

September 2, 2019

ESR promises to plant 30,000 trees

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has pledged to plant one tree for every onsite and online attendee at the 2020 ECR. The commitment could result in over 30,000 new trees, and is part of the organizers' efforts to minimize the damage to the environment resulting from the meeting.

August 28, 2019

French private radiologists celebrate reimbursement changes

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

France's union of private radiologists has welcomed the publication of amendment 7 to the Medical Convention, which will officially reestablish "Code Z" specific to radiology tariffs from 1 January 2020.

August 28, 2019

EJR announces conversion to DOI article numbering

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Journal of Radiology has decided to implement article numbering for citations. As of 13 August, every article citation will now include an abbreviated form of the article's digital object identifier (DOI) instead of its page range.

August 27, 2019

Report: Private equity firm considers bid for Healius

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swiss private equity firm Partners Group is on the brink of making an offer for Australian medical center chain Healius.

August 27, 2019

Open access articles have higher citation rates

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Open access articles in radiology are cited, downloaded, and shared more than articles that require a subscription to access, according to Dutch research published online on 19 August in European Radiology.

August 27, 2019

Live hybrid imaging conference will return in October

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The 2019 edition of the Conference on Hybrid Imaging Live (CHILI) will be broadcast live on 25-26 October from a studio in Vienna.

August 27, 2019

French government recognizes national radiology council

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The French Ministry of Health has officially recognized the country's professional council for radiology and medical imaging (G4). The G4 unites the national radiology society, France's college of radiology teachers, and the private and state radiology unions.

August 26, 2019

Researchers to study media coverage of 'overdiagnosis' tests

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from Australia plan to explore media coverage of the benefits and harms of medical testing that they believe may lead to overdiagnosis in healthy individuals, according to a protocol published online on 24 August in BMJ Open.

August 26, 2019

Thieves target mobile breast screening unit

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Thieves stripped a mammography van of copper cable in the city of Perth in Western Australia, forcing the cancellation of breast screening services on a day devoted to cancer awareness, according to an article on the website WAtoday.

August 22, 2019

IT error leads to cancer misdiagnoses in Scotland

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

More than 300 patients being cared for at the National Health Service (NHS) Forth Valley's Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, U.K., were wrongly informed they had cancer due to an IT error, according to a report posted on 22 August by DigitalHealth.

August 22, 2019

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