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2011
The International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology is pleased to announce it's
ninth radiology symposium and meeting of the General Assembly, to be held
in Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 25 - 27, 2011
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ABOUT THE ISSSR
Technological breakthroughs in diagnostic imaging modalities as well as the progress in interventional procedures have brought medical imaging to assume the role as the most important diagnostic modality and the forerunner of minimally-invasive, image-guided surgery. However, as healthcare expenditure is increasing, societies and governments become increasingly cost-conscious. Similarly, as radiological equipment becomes more sophisticated and expensive, there has been a movement towards restricting access and slowing down these developments. On the other hand, as radiology facilitates more timely and precise diagnoses, it has become the most important guide to optimizing therapeutic decisions. By shortening patients’ recovery and speeding return to normal life, radiology proves to be highly cost saving. Furthermore, modern radiological procedures eliminate the need for more invasive and thus more costly outmoded diagnostic approaches leading to an additional decrease of health care expenditures. These initial thoughts have influenced a group of leaders in radiology a decade ago to start discussing these problems that could negatively influence developments in healthcare and could ultimately harm our patients. This initiative started as a restricted meeting of opinion leaders in our profession but over the years developed further by adding more topics related to professional challenges: - interactions of our specialty with current IT applications, - specialty related turf battles, - the challenges related to work-power shortage versus increasing demands, - the continuing pressures on academic tasks - definition of new frontiers of our discipline towards cellular, molecular and genetic processes, - and last not least, the effects of economic and cultural globalization of our society on our profession. This diversity of topics and the continuous need toward a permanent forum of high level discussions influenced the creation of a professional, international body with a formal structure allowing the organization of meetings providing the possibility of strategic communication among the members and attendees.
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