I am currently involved in planning the DICOM 2013 International Conference & Seminar which is to be held for the first time in India, in Bangalore, at the Indian Institute of Science auditorium. This is a landmark event this year as it is the 20th anniversary of the year when the DICOM standard was first
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I recently spoke at a healthcare IT conference organized by the dedicated team at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Whitefield, where I had the privilege to work and head the department for my first year after I returned to India. During my talk, I dwelt on the subject of teleradiology
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I recently spoke at the 52nd Annual State Conference of the IRIA AP Chapter, held in Hyderabad. It was a memorable trip for several reasons – It was an exceptionally high quality conference with excellent lectures, and I learnt a lot. It is great to see how the presentations of radiologists from India now equal
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An exciting day long CME was just conducted by our team over this past weekend on the subject of Emergency Radiology, with an enthusiastic response from radiologists in Bangalore and around. This is a growing and evolving field and we are in an position to see a unique spectrum of disease, given that we report
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I just read in the Times of India that the number of 60 plus people in India crossed 100 million in 2010 and is expected to cross 177 million by 2020. So we are no longer just a nation of young people! The same article said “ 100% rise in dementia cases in 25 years,
This blog entry is written from a hospital room, where I have been incarcerated for not having taken the yellow fever vaccine before departing on my trip to Africa. On my arrival at the airport, I was just congratulating myself for being at the head of the immigration queue and being able to get home
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Next stop in Africa is Harare, Zimbabwe. The highlight of the flight down from Addis was looking down at the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro projecting through the clouds, about midway through the flight. My Iphone camera did not unfortunately do justice to the spectacle. Arrival in Harare was a series of pleasant surprises, as the
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My entry point into the continent of Africa was the city of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Addis as it is fondly called by Ethiopians, is an historic city, widely regarded as the capital of the African continent, where the Organization for African Unity was formed, so it is appropriate that my trip begin
The healthcare ICT conference in Hyderabad hosted by Apollo Hospitals and organized by the irrepressible and charismatic Prof K Ganapathy on September 1 was very stimulating. I spoke on Teleradiology and my co-panelists, who were from Denmark, Japan, Pakistan and India spoke on an interesting variety of topics including the role of telemedicine in burns
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Our newest entity Image Core Lab, or ICL, is focused on image analysis and management for clinical research. This is an interesting new space, requiring its own dedicated focus, team, infrastructure and technology while still being closely allied to the core practice of teleradiology. Our experiences in this space over the past few years inspired
