LMF Tee1*, KF Ma2, Benjamin M Yeh3, Zhen J Wang3 1Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, KwongWah Hospital, Hong Kong 2Department of Radiology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong 3Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, the United States of America

INTRODUCTION Interventional radiology is a unique specialty that involves vascular and nonvascular procedures involving virtually every patient population. Currently, most interventional radiologists perform several procedures per day, some lasting hours, and also typically provide on-call coverage for hospitals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The physical demands are distinctly different from t...

OBJECTIVES: To apply the economic terminology of lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System to the procurement of vascular stents in interventional radiology. METHODS: The economic- and process-driven terminology of lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System is first presented, including information and product flow as well as value stream mapping (VSM), and then applied to a...

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McCabe S1*, Lim M2, Maddineni S1 and Rozenblit G1 1Department of Radiology, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA 2Division of Interventional Radiology, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA *Corresponding author: McCabe S, Department of Radiology, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA, Tel: (914)...

The practice of medical imaging and interventional radiology are undergoing rapid change in recent years due to technological advances, workload escalation, workforce shortage, globalisation, corporatisation, commercialisation and commoditisation of healthcare. These professional and economical changes are challenging the established norm but may bring new opportunities. There is an increasing ...