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An international group of scientists has taken the first step on the road to targeting radiotherapy dosage to individual patients by means of their genetic characteristics, a radiation oncologist told Europe’s largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 – ESMO 34, in Berlin today (Thursday September 24). Professor Dirk de Ruysscher, from Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, [...]
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Nov 2 – NOV 5, 2009, Cairo – Egypt With over more than 3 years ICT For Health (The Exclusive Partner Of OTech in the Middle East) is providing successful PACS Admin Seminars & Training Solutions in the Middle East. ICT For Health’s PACS Administrator Course aims at providing a critical analysis of the planning, implementation, organization, [...] During the past decade, most of the nation’s largest health plans have adopted tools designed to reduce the use and thus expenditures for imaging services. The major tool, which requires that doctors seek prior authorization from a plan before conducting an imaging study, intervenes directly in physicians’ decision making. In a recent GAO study, the [...] An inquiry has been launched into the deaths of at least eight babies at a special care unit in Salmaniya Medical Complex. Seven premature babies died in the week running up to Eid in the hospital’s neo-natal unit, according to sources. A rush of babies is being blamed on multiple births to women treated by ‘irresponsible’ fertility [...] As more physicians have purchased advanced imaging equipment for their offices or free-standing facilities, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the Office of Inspector General (Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS]), academic studies, and newspaper articles have reported concerns that such shifts in settings for imaging services, the purchase [...] The impressive strides that have been made in the field of advanced imaging technology have led to major enhancements in a physician’s ability to diagnose a variety of diseases. However, since the use of and expenditures for imaging services have increased more rapidly than other physician-ordered services, without concomitant evidence of their value overall, government [...] |
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