Sirm, the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology, one of the largest scientific societies in Italy and Europe with more than 12,500 members, is promoting a international medical radiology meeting for the analysis, research and development of health policies at a global level: R7 – Radiology. This is a think tank which involves, for the first time, the large scientific radiology societies corresponding to the G7 countries (USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Italy, as well as the European Society of Radiology) in a International forum in Venice, from 10 to 13 October. In 3 days of debates and bilateral meetings – we read in a note – the 7 leaders of world radiology will be able to exchange ideas, experiences and strategies to reach a common goal: outlining the future of the discipline increasingly centered on the safety and effectiveness of patient.
“It will be an event that represents the start of cooperation – he explains Andrea Giovagnoninational president of Sirm – created to face the global challenges of medicine and public health, to the benefit of patients”. The meeting – which is presented today in a press conference in Milan – will lead to the creation of common documents that will have strong repercussions on clinical practice on relevant topics such as fragile patients, new artificial intelligence systems for precision medicine, sustainability and energy transition, working conditions and burnout of healthcare workers, new challenges in educational paths for young radiologists .
“Every year in Italy 70 million diagnostic imaging procedures are performed – he underlines Nicoletta Gandolfopresident-elect of Sirm – numbers which alone make us understand the relevance of the radiologist: the doctor who, through the use of imaging techniques (CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, traditional radiology), contributes to the diagnostic-therapeutic process of the vast majority of pathologies, from cardiovascular and oncological ones to inflammatory/degenerative and traumatic ones, both in urgent/emergency and elective conditions. We represent the decision-making hub of every clinical process and are also protagonists in secondary cancer prevention, through screening. But not only that – he adds – The interventional radiologist, through the image, is now able to guide transcutaneously, without the need for invasive surgical interventions, instruments, catheters for locoregional therapies in major pathologies. Having created the opportunity for an international meeting where we can discuss the problems of the discipline with the world’s leading experts and, more generally, the possibilities that new technologies offer the radiologist, only strengthens the belief that the work that all of Italian radiology has done and will do for patients (and more generally for the health system) in recent years is on the right path”.
“The objective of the R7 International Radiology Forum – explains Giovagnoni – is to prepare for an increasingly sustainable and patient-centred healthcare of the future, improving decision-making and organizational processes in light of new technologies and artificial intelligence. The summit was preceded by a series of preparatory meetings that have taken place in recent months, between the top experts in the various sectors of each company, which has strengthened the international inter-company ties essential for the diffusion of the knowledge, but above all indispensable to accelerate innovation and find shared solutions to global health problems”.
“This collaboration, which sees Italy and SIRM as protagonists – concludes the president – can transform itself into a powerful tool to promote prevention, improve treatments and above all guarantee equal access to health for all. This forum establishes the fundamental role of Italy and SIRM in the international scientific scenario, thanks to its extraordinary researchers and professionals and a public and universal health system among the best in the world which, with the problems known to all, nevertheless remains a point of reference and a model for clinicians of other countries in the world”.
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