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The growing awareness of the necessity to justify the costs of radiology brought together an international group of radiologists under the guidance of Dr. Alexander Margulis of the University of California San Francisco. The first meeting of this world wide working group on cost effectiveness in imaging was held in Oxford, United Kingdom in April 1994. Members of the group from the United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Japan and Italy offered their colleagues an insight into the respective national healthcare systems including reimbursements strategies. The group strongly favored the idea of an organized forum to discuss these issues and agreed upon immediately beginning preparation of a symposium to be held in Oxford in August of the following year. It was decided to provide a special format of the meeting with a restricted number of participants from all areas of our profession as well as politicians and industry representatives. While proceedings of the meetings were to be published, an executive summary was to be sent to each National Society and respective government agency. The program would have to touch on important issues facing the field of international differences in technology assessment and outcomes, discussion of latest research developments, communication with politicians and governments, future perspectives and developments in clinical and research areas, an inclusion of quality of life factors and ethical considerations. The ‘First International Symposium on Costs and Benefits of Radiology’ was held in August 1995, again in Oxford, United Kingdom. The meeting organizers were Stephen Golding of Oxford University and Alex Margulis of the UCSF. The great success of this first meeting reinforced the organizers and the initial founders in their basic idea of the need for such a forum. Therefore, a second meeting titled ‘Second Oxford International Symposium on the Cost and Benefits of Radiology’ was held in San Francisco in August 1997. The organizing committee decided that the request for a third symposium was justified. Prior to the third international symposium to be held in August 1999 in Berlin, Germany it became obvious that there was a need to incorporate the work of the participants into a more formal structure of a society. The meeting in Berlin represented the launching of the new ‘International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology’ (IS

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