The History Of Radiology

Born on March 27, 1845, was Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen the man who discovered Radiology. He was born at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany as the only child. He went through a lot growing up and met some people that helped influence his life along the way. His name is associated with his discovery of rays which he called x-rays. In 1895, he discovered x-rays; radiology has advanced from a scientific curiosity to a medical necessity. It is very interesting that most of the first people who worked with radiology never had any medical profession. That’s when people started to try to get radiology out to the public by advertising television commercials. Some of the first people who were interested in using this equipment were Photographers.

According to the asrt.org, “As the technology gained popularity in the 1900s, most medical x-ray equipment was owned and operated by independent businessmen, including chemists, engineers and electricians. Physicians would send patients to these x-ray operators for diagnostic and therapeutic services.” By 1910 different medical offices had their own equipment install and some of the physicians decide to specialize in radiology. The physicians did the work their self but since the equipment was advancing they realized that they couldn’t keep up and needed help. So, they had their assistant or secretary do until hospitals, and clinics started hiring nurses because they had medical experience. Majority of those nurses who were radiologists were women. So, if you are still wondering by now what is radiology, according to UC San Diego School of Medicine radiology is a medical specialty that uses imaging techniques to diagnose and treat a wide variety of conditions. Some of the things included on radiology are like abdominal imaging, breast imaging, neuroradiology, and ultrasound and

The core system for the electronic management of imaging departments would be the radiology information system (RIS). Some of the functions of the RIS are scheduling patients, managing resources, tracking examination performance, interpretation, and results distribution, and billing. In the radiology department they do follow a procedure and one of the first most important is an order entry. An order entry is the process where they receive a request to do the procedure, they also receive the patient’s medical history and why the procedure is being requested, this is all through a computer based system. Some of the systems they may use for that are