EuroPACS'98

XVI Annual Meeting of the EuroPACS Association

October 1-3, 1998

Barcelona, Spain

EuroPACS'98 Lectures (Pre-Programme)

Thursday 1st.

• Opening PACS Workshop: Assessing its Role in Clinical Practice.
  • 14:15 Invited lecture. Technology Assessment in Medicine/PACS. Dr. Cari Almazan. Catalan Health Technology Assessment Office, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 14:40 Invited lecture. PACS' Success and Pitfalls in Europe. Dr. Nicola Strickland, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
  • 15:05 Invited lecture. Image Distribution and other Aspects of Radiologist - Clinician Communication. Prof. Günther Gell, University of Graz, Austria.
  • 15:30 Session Discussion (30')
• Scientific Session 1. PACS Clinical Applications.
  • 16:40 Invited lecture. PACS in Japan: the Strong and the Weak. Dr. Hiromu Nishitani.

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Friday October 2nd (morning).

• Session 2. PACS: Image Acquisition and Processing.
  • 09:00 Invited lecture. Direct Digital Radiography. Prof. HK. Huang, UCSF, San Francisco.
  • 09:20 Invited lecture. New technologies for X-ray Acquisition. Prof. Andrew Todd-Pokropek. Medical Physics, Univ. of London (UK).

• Session 3. PACS: Intranet Applications
  • 11:30 Invited lecture: Intranet-Extranet and PACS, Dr. Osman Ratib, Clinique du Genolier, UIM-HCUG (CH))

Friday October 2nd (afternoon).

• Session 4: PACS and Teleradiology/Extranet Applications
  • 15:00 Invited lecture. Teleradiology Services in an Integrated Regional Health Telematics Network: Technical Issues and Scenaria of Use Prof. S. Orphanoudakis, FORTH, Univ. of Crete, Greece.
  • 15:20 Invited lecture. Teleradiology: Practical experiences in Finland. Dr. Jarmo Reponen. Univ. of Oulu, Finland.

• Session 5: PACS, HIS and RIS Integration and Standards

Saturday 3rd (morning).

• Session 6: Workstations, Multimedia, and Added Value Applications
  • 09:30 Invited lecture. Future trends in PACS. Prof. U. Lemke, TU Berlin, Germany.
• Session 7: PACS Management and Economics
  • 12:20 Invited Lecture. PACS at 1998: Current Status and Expected evoution Dr. Michael Osteaux.

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  EuroPACS'98 Organizing Committee Secretariat

   Dr. Joaquim Piqueras 
  - EuroPACS'98 Pediatric Radiology - HMI Vall d'Hebron Hospitals ps. Vall d'Hebron 
  119-129, E-08035 Barcelona, Spain E-mail: jpiquer@ar.vhebron.es Fax: +34 93 2746775 
  Tel: +34 93 2746778 http://www.vhebron.es/rx/europacs/