Dr. Jan Schillebeeckx will be speaking at ECR2011

ECR is the annual meeting of the ESR (European society of Radiology). It is a trend-setting, dynamic and service-oriented congress, well-known as one of the most innovative meetings within the scientific community, embedded in a unique and inspiring ambience. 

Dr. Jan Schillebeeckx (expert within the hict network) gives a presentation on Monday March 7.

Excellence in teleradiology: key issues in workflow management.
The healthcare market is undergoing significant change. The market is evolving from a provider centric to a patient centric model, requiring relevant data to converge at patient level in a timely and structured fashion. The push towards setting up collaborative networks for radiology is strong in most European countries. The most important challenge for teleradiology is to ensure that it develops in a manner that benefits patient care and ensures overall patient safety, and does not in any way reduce the quality of radiology services provided to the citizen. Therefore, these collaborative networks require more than just IT infrastructure with IT support. But as important is case management, workflow management and the administrative and management support that provides all the stakeholders with operational, analytical and statistical QA reports. Through a centrally operated hub, the radiology workflow is optimised to ensure throughput of cases, involving radiologists in the network, with the difference that only the services are provided by the Hub to the network, not the medical acts, which remain in the hands of the radiologists.

Learning Objectives:

1. To learn about the technical needs of a teleradiology infrastructure adapted to a distributed environment.
2. To understand that teleradiology involves much more than just technology. Optimising the workflow and time management are also important.
3. To appreciate how creating collaborative networks can improve the efficiency of radiology procedures and bring improved work/life balance to radiologists.