What factors are driving increased adoption of healthcare information technology, otherwise known as HIT? Clinical IT and technology in general are getting a lot of focus from the government, from the industry, from clinicians — and the drive to make healthcare safer is what's driving overall growth of clinical IT and technology adoption.
One of the highest priorities for physicians who diagnose and treat heart failure conditions is to keep their patients ...
It struck me the other day that while thousands of healthcare information technology (HIT) executives flock to San Diego ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
It’s not uncommon for a cardiologist at University Community Hospital (UCH) in Tampa to walk about two miles to get his ...
It’s like a never-ending battle — that’s how Lena Napolitano, M.D., describes the recent and sharp rise in nosocomial ...
Intensive care units are highly dependent on the efficient transfer of physiological data to multiple healthcare providers. In the delivery of healthcare in 2006 there exists a strong rationale for a tight relationship between critical care and information technology (Celi, Hassan, Marquardt, Breslow, & Rosenfeld, 2001).
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
Technological advancements over the years have forced most OR methods used in 1964 into dusty, old history books and ...
Blood pressure measurement is a given for patients in the hospital, but for surgical or critically ill patients — in ...
Electronic medical information improves patient safety by providing immediate and complete access to complex patient ...
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DAIC: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...
A new spot blood pressure monitoring product from Medwave can now be sold and marketed in the U.S. Primo is a handheld ...
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
Drug-coated balloons (DCB), also referred to as drug-eluting balloons, are used to treat peripheral and coronary artery ...