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Volume 8 Primary Healthcare: Open Access
ISSN: 2167-1079 Health Economics Congress 2018
September 13-14, 2018
Page 39
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September 13-14, 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland
4th World Congress on Health Economics,
Health Policy and Healthcare Management
Shina Ghafoor-Ameen, Primary Health Care 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1079-C6-032
The impact of innovations in medical Imaging on healthcare economics
The continuously rising healthcare costs present a great challenge for the community and therefore demand new opportunities
for innovation. Medical imaging is one of the fastest growing areas of medicine. The field of Radiology is expanded dramatically
leading in most of the cases to provide a precise diagnosis in fewminutes. Imaging technology has undergone a tremendous progress
fromRoentgen’s discovery of X-rays to present day Ultrasound (US) Computed Tomography (CT) andMagnetic resonance imaging
(MRI). Medical imaging replaces the need for surgery and shortens time in the hospital. Impacts on quality are because new
equipment offers higher imaging quality and reduced radiation exposure, owing to the improvement of technologies using X-rays
or to the substitution of non-ionizing technologies (e.g. MR imaging). Some studies provided the evidence that MRI is cost effective
examination, however this needs to be considered case by case and as per compelling indication. New technologies being developed
for MRI to decrease exam scan times and increase diagnostic impact. Furthermore an improving cost effective technology like
Teleradiology continues to spread and will bring the overall healthcare costs further down. New innovation is a bargain if it can
improve the quality of life and prevent the high cost of disability.
Biography
Shina Ghafoor-Ameen has been graduated from College of Medicine at the University of Almustansiriya, Baghdad, Iraq as Medical Doctor and Postgraduate specialist
training in Diagnostic Radiology (FMH) at the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. She have done Sub-Speciality training (Fellowship) in Musculoskeletal Radiology,
University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland. Presently she is working as Consultant Radiologist and Lead of MRI Diagnostics, Hospital of Thun, Berne, Switzerland.
Shina Ghafoor-Ameen
Hospital of Thun, Switzerland