EuroPACS'98
XVI Annual Meeting of the EuroPACS Association
October
1-3, 1998
Barcelona, Spain
EuroPACS'98
Pre-Programme
Thursday 1st.
- From 10:00: On-site
Registration/Acreditation. Opening of the Technical Exhibition
- 11:00-12:30
'A PACS introductory Session: Basic concepts' Industry supported session
- 13:00 Welcome
- 14:00 Official Address:
- 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')
- 16:00 Coffee Break and Visit to the Technical Exhibition (40')
- Scientific
Session 1. PACS Clinical Applications.
- Chairman: Dr. Michael
Osteaux, Dr. Nicola Strickland
- 16:40 Invited lecture. PACS in Japan: the
Strong and the Weak. Dr. Hiromu Nishitani.
- 17:00-19:00 Scientific papers
- 19:00 Bus transportation to Hotels
Friday 2nd (morning).
(Accompanying persons programme): Gaudi's Barcelona, guided sightseeing, 9-16
h.
- 09:00 Session 2. PACS: Image Acquisition and Processing.
- Chairman: Prof. Andrew Todd-Pokropek, Dr. Joan Carles Carreņo
- 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).
- 09:40-11:00
Scientific papers7
- 11:00 Coffee break and visit to the technical exhibition
(30')
- 11:30 Session 3. PACS: Intranet Applications
- Chairman:
Dr. Osman Ratib,
- 11:30 Invited lecture: Intranet-Extranet and PACS,
Dr. Osman Ratib, Clinique du Genolier, UIM-HCUG (CH))
- 11:50-13:30 Scientific
papers
- 13:30 Lunch
14:00 Private Meeting of the EuroPACS Board
Friday 2nd (afternoon).
- 15:00-18:30 Visit to Vall d'Hebron Hospitals
(Scheduled groups)
- 15:00 Session 4: PACS and Teleradiology/Extranet Applications
- Chairman: Dr. Jarmo Reponen, Mr. Fenno Ottes
- 15:00 Invited lecture.
Teleradiology Services in an Integrated Regional Health Telematics Network:
Technical Issues and Scenaria of Use. Prof. Stelios Orphanoudakis, FORTH,
Univ. of Crete, Greece.
- 15:20 Invited lecture. Teleradiology: Practical
experiences in Finland. Dr. Jarmo Reponen. Univ. of Oulu, Finland.
- 15:40-16:50
Scientific papers
- 17:00 Coffee break and Visit to the Technical Exhibition
(30')
- Session 5: PACS, HIS and RIS Integration and Standards
- Chairman: Mr. Fenno Ottes, Dr. Davide Caramella
17:30-19:00
Scientific papers 19:00 EuroPACS General Assembly
19:30 Bus
transportation to Hotels
21:00-01:00 Social Event
Saturday
3rd (morning).
- Session 6: Workstations, Multimedia, and Added
Value Applications
- Chairman: Prof. Stelios Orphanoudakis, Prof. U.
Lemke.
- 09:30 Invited lecture. Future trends in PACS. Prof. U. Lemke,
TU Berlin, Germany.
- 09:50-11:10 Scientific papers
- 11:10 Coffee break
and Visit to the Technical Exhibition (30')
- Session 7: PACS Management
and Economics
- Chairman: Mr. Bernard Gibaud, Dr. Davide Caramella
- 11:40-12:20 Scientific papers
- 12:20 Invited Lecture. PACS at 1998: Current
Status and Expected evoution Dr. Michael Osteaux.
- 13:30 Closure
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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(at)ar.vhebron.es Fax: +34 93 2746775 Tel: +34 93 2746778 http://www.vhebron.es/rx/europacs/