 Wow! August already! That means that this is the second of our three fully public issues of the MRI Newsletter. If you receive the complimentary version of the newsletter and don't get to read all the feature articles each month, click on the features to the right and you'll get a better idea of what you've been missing.
Also, the AHRA annual meeting last week was fantastic! We had nearly 400 attendees at our two presentations on MRI facility safety and design. Thank you again to the conference organizers and to each of our sponsor for both presentations. Based on early feedback, ours are again among the highest-rated breakout sessions for the entire conference!
Thank you to each of you who attended either of our two sessions and talked with us following. We're excited to have the opporutnity to collaborate with so many of you on your upcoming projects.
A very big thank you is also due to each of the sponsors for our presentations. Thank you for the primary underwriting sponsorship goes to Lindgren RF Enclosures.
In addition to our primary underwriter we also wish to thank our supporting sponsors, Kopp Development, Mednovus SAFESCAN, Mass Cabinets, The Sky Factory and Fiberoptic Lighting. Without each and every one of them, we wouldn't be able to share this information on MRI facility safety and design with you. Please visit their websites and learn about their products and services.
If you weren't able to join us in Las Vegas at AHRA, we hope that you will be able to attend one of our scheduled presentations at the Radiology Business Managers Association annual meeting this October. See the link below under the 'News Bite' section.
As always, we hope that you will contact us if you have any questions about anything you read in the newsletter, or if we can be of any assistance to you.
Tobias Gilk
Junk Architects, PC
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The 2006 MRI Suite Design World Tour Has Only One More Stop!
In October we will be speaking at the Radiology Business Managers Association in Phoenix, AZ. We have a couple of unconfirmed invitations for the remainder of the year, but as of right now RBMA is the last confirmed opportunity to hear us present. This time we'll be speaking on designs for maximum patient throughput and what equipment vendors often don't tell you until after you've signed the purchase agreement.
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www.rbma.org (fall conference page)
MRI Newsletter - Article Archive Is Now On Line!
Don't forget that we now have the archive of previous MRI Newsletter articles available. Click here to see all the articles that are available.
While the archive index is available to everyone, only subscribers will be able to access the full text of the articles, except the published public issues.
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Special Public Access Article
MRI-Safety Week Follow-Up:
Same Time Next Year?
By Robert Junk, AIA, AHRA and Tobias Gilk
Unfortunately, we didn’t hear from anyone in Antarctica. If we had, MRI-Safety Week would have covered all seven continents! There were people from all over the globe who visited the MRI-Safety Week website and implemented suggested tools to celebrate and enhance safety at their facilities. So what did we learn (besides the fact that the Antarctica MRI community is bitterly antisocial) and what else is in store?
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Special Public Access Article
DRA And MRI Patient Throughput:
Unconventional Wisdom vs. Reimbursement Cuts.
By Tobias Gilk
I would bet that, as a group, MRI owners in the USA and their accountants now make up the largest concentration of men and women with furrowed brows, chronic insomnia, sweaty palms and heart palpitations. Why should such a group of accomplished individuals find themselves in such a sorry state? Because, as a whole, this group is concerned that provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) are about to turn their nitrous-burning hot-rod of an economic engine into the financial equivalent of a Kick ’N Go.
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Special Public Access Article
MRI Accident Data:
You Don' t Know More Than You Think You Do.
By Tobias Gilk
In Kansas City, an area plastic surgeon made national news by being the focus of a running expose on a local television news station, having left an old personal computer on his curb for trash pickup with reams of patient data, including before and after pictures, still on the hard drive. Perhaps it was in an effort to avoid just this sort of debacle that a radiologist was determined to erase the contents of an old hard drive. But where, oh where, could a radiologist find an electromagnet strong enough to erase a computer hard drive?
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Articles In The Works
In the upcoming months we will be sharing articles with you on a number of topics, from tools that are immediately applicable, to strategies that will help your facility on into the future. Several planned upcoming articles include:
- MRI Suite Level Designations?
- Forthcoming MRI Suite Design Guidance
- Converting To The New 'MR Safe'
We Love Hearing From You!
Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments on the articles or issues you'd like to see covered.
MRI-Planning
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Kansas City, MO 54105
816-472-7722
MRI_Expert@MRI-Planning.com
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