Radiology 2015 to 2020
There is a new window for radiology and imaging regarding forms of Medicare payment and care system reorganization "health care reform like national health program in our country".
These reforms may affect only the discipline of radiology and imaging but the evolution of its core technologies.
Radiology must improve prognostic power of imaging tools and create new subspecialty with clinical approach for image based diagnosis.
In United state, on March 23, 2010 they decided more patient protection and health insurance coverage to approximately 30 million more Americans and our health ministry decided increased health insurance for all country people "near 100%".
One of restricted payments for health care "technical payment reduction" were for radiologic examinations.
Attention to economy and management and business roles how radiologist should act between low radiologic examination fees and expensive payments for machines and instrumentation. maintenance especially in our country for expensive currency is a problem.
Radiologists recognized the power of digital standards for imaging findings, interpretation, transport and film less activity.
Radiologists also extend curative medicine through interventional radiology.
Although radiologists in the world recognize good methodology for professional payment "RVU or RVS means relative value units or scale system" but in our country we can't reach for a standard and good or win-win methodology.
We wish and wait for an optimum Medicare resource-based relative value scale system that other radiologists reach it in the early 1990s.
By modern core of the diagnostic procedures radiologists are the first participating in diagnostic teams for diagnosis by CT, MRI, U/S, PET-CT and PET-MRI also interventional radiology.
The imaging boom, or remarkable economic success in radiology make it a prime target for cost reduction.
Policymakers have decried or disgrace imaging boom".
In future radiologist will do in 3 ways:
1- striking images in clinical problems by fusion imaging and functional techniques.
2- Changing structure of professional imaging attention to clinic like molecular imaging and optical scanning and intra-operative U/S and MRI.
3- New economic models of imaging "radiol 2011, 8,159-163, American college of radiology.
President of ICR/32 "ICR 2016"Marina Pourafkari is associated professor of Shahid Beheshti Medical University that is one of scientific and decorous radiologists of our society and is wise president of educational committee and were wise president for ICR/31.
My thanks go to scientific secretary Hamidreza Haghighatkhah Executive secretary Kurosh Abdollahifard and all members of both committees with my best regards to member of chairs of Iranian society of radiology all radiologists, speakers and society for medical and radiological instrument companies especially ICR/32 sponsors.
This is our next or second experience in Milad complex the symbol of Tehran capital city.
I am so happy being together with IRSA population in this congress.
Jalal Jalal Shokouhi M.D.
President, Iranian society of radiology