Congratulations to the University of Malaya Medical Centre Continuing Biomedical Imaging Education (CBIE) for the very timely conference on “Digital Image Management in a Globalised Economy”. With radiology going digital, moving towards an integrated healthcare enterprise has or will become a necessity. Issues, success stories, experience gained, budgeting, connectivity, standards were presented in this 2 day event.

Both local and foreign speakers formed the faculty. The faculty was made up of doctors from various disciplines in medicine, technical experts in the healthcare business dealing with networking, storage, workstations, display panels and solutions such as Picture Archiving and Communication System and application engineers. It was a show of partnership between image management providers and users, including administrators.

Speakers included Prof Dr Ng Kwang-Hoong, Prof Dr Basri JJ Abdullah, Dr Katherine Meg Richman, Mr Erik Verschueren, Dr Lawrence Sim, Dr Evelyn Ho, Prof Dato Dr Jai Mohan, Dr Winston Lim Eng Hoe, Mr Christopher Tan, Mr Richard Wern, Mr Foo Sek Guan, Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman, Ms Maria Sidi, Mr Ian Loh, Prof Dr David Stringer, Ms Reid Losee, Mr Martin Lindemann, Assoc Prof Dr Yang Faridah and Mr Steven Muller. Dr Nat Lenzo was one of the panelists for the Forum on Digital Image Management in a Globalised Economy – Is It in the Patient’s Interest?

From the feedback received, the participants were pleasantly surprised at the interesting, varied and useful content of the conference. It was particularly useful for those administrators and managers of centres contemplating a solution for digital imaging that would integrate with other aspects of a hospital information system and/or radiology information system.

A gala dinner was the social highlight of the conference.

A trade exhibition was made up of the main sponsor, Agfa ASEAN and other co-sponsors, Cisco, Planar, Dell, EMC² and Intel. Participants at the conference were able to test out flat panel monitors, Dell solutions as well as talk to the experts in storage and networking.

The co-organisers of the event were the Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal (BIIJ), University of Malaya Research Imaging Centre (UMRIC) and College of Radiology, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia.

Note: Lectures at the Conference are available online at www.biij.org
 

Scenes at the Conference