Posts Tagged ‘best practice’
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Go grab yourself a cup of coffee before you continue… this is going to be a long (for me, anyway) rant.
Ready? OK…
Let’s start at the very beginning (“what a very good place to start”). Click To Read The Whole Story…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, ASHE, best practice, colombini, death, detector, ECRI, FDA, ferromagnetic, GE, guidelines, Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, healthcare, imaging, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, law, lawsuit, legal, license, magnetic, magnetic resonance, Marzendorfer, Mednovus, metal, Michael, MRI, MRI Design Guide, radiology, regulation, require, safety, Siemens, standard, TJC, VA
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
But 2010 holds the promise of reversing course.
Throughout 2009, we saw tantalizing glimpses of potential MRI safety improvements, which repeatedly escaped becoming real. Here are my ‘Top 3′ near-miss opportunities of 2009 to substantially reshape MR safety…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, best practice, FDA, imaging, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic resonance, MRI, radiology, regulation, safety, TJC
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Just a quick additional note… You might be interested in an article that was posted this week on Aunt Minnie in which their editor, Kate Madden Yee, reported on one of the presentations, “MRI Safety, Best Practice, and Liability,” I gave at the AHRA annual meeting.
You can view the Aunt Minnie article by clicking here.
Tobias Gilk, President & MRI Safety Director
Mednovus, Inc.
Tobias.Gilk@Mednovus.com
www.MEDNOVUS.com
Tags: article, Aunt Minnie, best practice, liability, litigation, MRI, presentation, safety, Tobias
Posted in Other MRI Safety | 1 Comment »
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
As if you needed a personal invitation from me, here it is nonetheless. Please join me (and a several thousand of your colleagues) at the American Hot Rod Association [ahem] American Healthcare Radiology Administrators annual meeting in August. And though it may not really be my place to invite you to the conference, I do want to extend to you a personal invitation to 2½ special events that will happen during that week.
Click Here To Learn About Your Special 2½ Invitations…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, Administration, AHRA, alert, American Healthcare Radiology Administrators, best practice, booth, Environment of Care, Gilk, healthcare, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, lawsuit, legal, liability, Mednovus, MRI, presentation, radiology, regulation, risk, safety, standard of care, trade show
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