MIR 2007

FINAL PROGRAMME

Wednesday 10th October

13:00 – 13:15 /

Introduction and Welcome

Dr Nicola Strickland, MIR Chairman

Current imaging management issues in England

Chairman: Dr N H Strickland

13:15 – 13:35 /

Imaging management in Oxfordshire: setting the scene

Dr David Linsell, The Warden, The Royal College of Radiologists, London
13:35 – 14:00 /

Current imaging management issues facing the Royal College of Radiologists

Dr Gillian Markham, The Dean, The Royal College of Radiologists, London
14:00 – 14:30 / The English national solution:
a)CfH overview
b)Things we would do differently with hindsight
Ms Mary Barber, PACS Programme Lead, Connecting for Health (CfH), London
14:30 – 14:50 / Managing “difficult” Trusts in the national PACS Programme
Dr John Somers, Consultant Radiologist, Nottingham University NHS Trust, Nottingham
14:50 – 15:10 / Managing clinical risk in CfH
Dr Tony Newman-Sanders, National PACS Clinical Adviser, Connecting for Health (CfH), London
15:10 – 15:30 / Managing problems created by PACS
Dr Nicholas Hollings, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Cornwall
15:30 – 16:00 /

Refreshments

Management of Image study coding
Chairman: Dr D Linsell
16:00 – 16:20 / Managing imaging coding in England: what we’ve achieved, and what we haven’t!
Dr Rhidian Bramley, Consultant Radiologist, Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester
16:20 – 16:40 / Development of a national radiology dataset in the context of the Scottish national clinical dataset development programme
Dr Liz Robertson, Associate Medical Director, NHS Grampian
16:40 – 17:00 / The Dutch approach to managing coding and billing
Dr Erik-Jan Schoonen, Unit Manager Research & Education, Department of Radiology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam
17:00 – 17:20 / The main difficulties encountered in designing the English RIS codes
Mr Ian Arrowsmith, NHS Connecting for Health
17:20 /

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Thursday 11th October

Imaging IT and Performance
Chairman: Professor B Hillman
08:30 – 09:00 / How the electronic medical record influences radiology management
Professor Michael Pentecost
09:00 – 09:15 / Electronic protocoling and and tracking system
Dr Jamlik-Omari Johnson, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts, USA
09:15 – 09:25 / The effect of an outlook web access-based system on report turnaround time
Dr Christoph Trumm, Department of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
09:25 – 09:35 / Using PACS implementation to take service improvement to the next level
Dr Richard Seymour, Consultant Radiologist, Torbay Hospital
09:35 – 09:45 / Breakthrough in radiology: managing radiology practice
Mr Jeroen Wien, Advisor, Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO
09:45 – 10:00 / Use of free blogging software to create a radiology department website
Dr Peng Hui Lee, Mid Essex Hospitals, Chelmsford, England
10:00 – 10:15 /
How can a commercial journal influence imaging management?
Mr Christian Marolt, Publisher, Imaging Management
10:15 – 10:45 /

Refreshments

10:45 – 11:15 / Pay for performance in American medicine
Professor Michael Pentecost
11:15 – 11:45 / Pay for performance and consumerism – newest fads or the wave of the future?
Professor Bruce Hillman, Editor in Chief, Journal of the American College of Radiology
11:45 – 11:55 / Time spent reporting imaging studies
Dr J J Hermans (Netherlands)
11:55 – 12:05 / Cost accounting in Radiology
Mr Olli Tolkki, Researcher/Project Manager, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
12:05 – 12:15 / History of Dutch healthcare delivery: supply driven  demand-driven
Dr Erik-Jan Schoonen, Unit Manager Research & Education, Department of Radiology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam
12:15 – 12:25 / How PACS improves the reporting process
Dr F L Giesel, M.B.A., (Germany)
12:25 – 12:35 / Management of Radiology units within emergency departments of the Lazio region of Italy
Dr A Roncacci, Radiologist, San Camillo Hospital, Rome
12:35 – 12:45 / Multi-purpose archiving and eHealth platforms
Ms Hanna Pohjonen, Rosalieco Oy, Finland
12:45 – 12:55 / Improvement in the quality of automated dictation by making explicit use of semantic knowledge
Mr Klaus Stanglmayr, Philips Speech Recognition Systems
12:55 – 13:55 /

Lunch

The 10 Commandments for managing an Imaging Department
Chairman: Professor P Gishen
13:55 – 14:20 /

Professor Philip Gishen, Clinical Director of Imaging Department, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

14:20 – 14:35 /

Professor Guy Frija, France

14:35 – 14:50 /

Professor Michael Pentecost, USA

14:50 – 15:05 /

Dr Sergei Nazarenko, Estonia

15:05 – 15:20 /

Professor Henrik Thomsen, CPH University Hospital, Denmark

15:20 – 15:35 /

Associate Professor Tchoyoson Lim, National Neurosciences Institute, National University of Singapore

15:35 – 16:05 /

Refreshments

16:05 – 16:40 /

“The 10 Commandments” Summary and Discussion

16:40 – 16:55 /
Industry: TBA
16:55 – 17:10 /
Industry: TBA
17:10 /
Close
17:30 – 18:30 /
MIR Board Meeting

Friday 12th October

Teleradiology management issues
Chairman: Professor H Thomsen
08:30 – 09:15 / Teleradiology and emerging business models
Professor Seong Ki Mun, Ph. D., Associate Vice President for Special Programs/Professor of Radiology and Director of ISIS Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC
09:15 – 09:45 / Management guidelines for teleradiology outsourcing in the UK
Dr Laurence Sutton, Clinical Director of Imaging Department, The Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax
09:45 – 10:15 / Regulation of teleradiologists and teleradiology providers
Dr Richard Fitzgerald, Consultant Radiologist, The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, Wolverhampton
10:15 – 10:45 / New challenges and opportunities for a European teleradiology business
Dr Erik Ranschaert
10:45 – 11:15 / Refreshments
Chairman: Dr L Sutton
11:15 – 11:35 / Cluster Enterprise Teleradiology: potential or pitfall?
Associate Professor Tchoyoson Lim, National Neurosciences Institute, National University of Singapore
11:35 – 11:50 / Teleradiology as an educational tool: a wasted resource?
Dr Hans Billing, Medical Director, European Telemedicine Clinic S.L., Barcelona
11:50 – 12:05 / Teleradiology: how I’m doing it!
Mr Pieter Holst, TeleConsult Europe
12:05 – 12:15 / Critical success factors in remote reporting
Mrs Elizabeth Beckmann, Managing Director, Medical Imaging Group Ltd
12:15 – 12:25 / One file form as a solution for teleradiology during unstable conditions of internet communicationo
Dr Djordje Jelic, DIC Eurodijagnostika, Belgrade, Serbia
12:25 – 12:40 / Teleradiology: How prevalent? How used? How good?
Professor Jonathan Sunshine, Senior Director for Research, American College of Radiology, Yale University, School of Medicine (Adjunct)
12:40 – 12:55 /

Industry: TBA

12:55 – 14:00 /

Lunch

Managing the future of imaging
Chairman: Professor G Frija
14:00 – 14:20 / Managing future challenges in Imaging
Professor Michel Claudon,
14:20 – 14:35 / Industry: TBA
14:35 – 14:45 / Planning for radiology 2020
Dr Johannes Schmidt-Tophoff
14:45 – 15:00 / Industry: TBA
15:00 – 15:15 / Management aspects of NSF
Professor Henrik Thomsen, CPH University Hospital, Denmark
15:15 – 15:30 / Managing MR physics learning using an interactive animation based e-learning tool
Dr Athanasios Chalazonitis, Consultant Radiologist, Athens, Greece
15:30 – 16:00 /

Refreshments

16:00 – 16:20 / Radiology training: alternative paradigms for the specialist
Dr David Kessel, Consultant Radiologist, St James’s Hospital, Leeds
16:20 – 16:35 / Why the European Society of “Radiology” (ESR) is already obsolete!
Dr Nicola Strickland, Consultant Radiologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London & Chairman of MIR
16:35 /

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Saturday 13th October

Managing Imaging Research and Education Issues (AURE session)
Chairman: Professor H Blickman
08:30 – 09:15 / Open Source software: the key to research management?
Professor Seong Ki Mun, Ph. D., Associate Vice President for Special Programs/Professor of Radiology and Director of ISIS Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC
09:15 – 09:45 / Why is imaging research important to managing the future of our speciality?
Professor H Blickman,
09:45 – 10:05 / How can an imaging department encourage both research and clinical productivity: management models
Professor Georg Bongartz, Head of General Radiology, University Hospitals, Basel
10:05 – 10:35 / The lack of uniformity of training standards in radiology in Europe: current practice and problems
Professor Peter Pattynama, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam
10:35 – 11:05 /

Refreshments

11:05 – 11:35 / Imaging training academies: better management of training?
Dr Philip Cook,
11:35 – 12:05 / Developing a UK-wide radiology accreditation programme
Dr Conall Garvey, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Liverpool University Hospital
12:05 – 12:20 / AURE (Association of University Radiologists) Speaker
12:20 – 12:35 / AURE (Association of University Radiologists) Speaker
12:35 – 12:50 / AURE (Association of University Radiologists) Speaker
12:50 – 13:05 / AURE (Association of University Radiologists) Speaker
13:05 – 13:10 / Closing remarks
Dr Nicola Strickland, Consultant Radiologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London & Chairman of MIR
13:10 /

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