Technical Meeting on Patient Radiation Exposure Tracking: Progress - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Technical Meeting on Patient Radiation Exposure Tracking: Progress Assessment and Development of Further Actions Lecturer and Head of of Radiology department, (Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, EAEA) National counterpart of Strengthening Radiation Protection in patients during medical exposure

Medicine is practiced in two Sectors: 1-Governmenal Sector. (50%) (for free) 2-Private Sector. (50%) (paid)

Every patient has a patient ID containing his medical history only in the Governmental Sector. This does not exist in the Private Sector (Supposing well to do patients)

Implementation of the Smart tracking should start with: 1- Patients (Awareness – Encouragement) 2-Doctors (Referring physician, radiologists awareness - Responsibility)

In Egypt, We started to implement PACS in the Ministry of Health hospitals (Governmental) from 2012 but we are still facing difficulties to finish it in 2015 - 2016

Card Booklet Smart PATIENT TRACKING File History Passport Sheet

In my opinion, the value of Ionizing Radiation tracking among years for the same patient is - not only beneficial to preclude unintended excessive radiation exposure-

greatly beneficial in LONG TERM MEDICAL RESEARCH

The limitations to the manual or smart tracking: 1- Both Patients and referring doctors awareness are lagging. 2- (if the patient loses his booklet) No IT domains specially in The Governmental Sector. 3- Private Sector facilities are not connected to each other. 4- The need for more trained personnel's to record the actual exposure and to convert the doses. 5- How to interpret the recorded data and how to prepare for the next examination regarding Justification and appropriateness. 6- The harmony and cooperation between medical physicist, Radiologists and surgeons or referring physicians is a science fiction.