Boston-based medical imaging developer Paxeramed Corp. will introduce its PaxeraUltima360° enterprise-class and vendor neutral platform during the 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference. The platform can consolidate medical image data from multiple imaging departments into a master directory reaching radiologists, clinicians and patients.
Royal Philips announced that Volcano, a Philips business, has received CE Mark for the iFR Scout pullback software. iFR Scout is a functional extension of its existing instant wave-Free Ratio (iFR) Modality, optimized to assess serial lesions and diffuse coronary disease.
Two new studies suggest women who experience hot flashes earlier in life appear to have poorer endothelial function — one of the earliest signs of cardiovascular disease— than those who have hot flashes later in life or not at all. Both studies were presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
The opening session speakers at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2015 Scientific Sessions will examine the current state of cardiovascular care and why it is ripe for disruption and new technologies.
Agfa HealthCare announced that it will be launching its new clinical Portal in North America. The Agfa HealthCare Portal gives a patient-centric overview of information from different sources, to different stakeholders in the patient's care, inside or outside the hospital. It will also provide a comprehensive road map running from the Portal itself to true integrated care and the electronic health record (EHR).
TeraMedica will introduce a sophisticated analytics platform and dashboard for its vendor neutral archive (VNA) at the 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
PatientPoint announced that PatientPoint Outreach 3.2 is now certified for Meaningful Use in an ambulatory setting. The software is also compliant with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) 2014 Edition criteria for certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT).
Patients 65 or older discharged from the hospital as early as 48 hours after angioplasty following a major heart attack have similar outcomes as those who stay four to five days, provided there are no in-hospital complications. This finding was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The Virginia Zoo veterinary team partnered with a team from Sentara Heart Hospital to perform ultrasound on the hearts of orangutans Pepper and Schnitz as part of the animals’ annual wellness checkups at the Zoo’s state-of-the-art veterinary hospital.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Agfa HealthCare will unveil enhancements to its suite of technologies during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference that are designed to integrate multiple points of data consolidation and access with its Enterprise Imaging platform. The new capabilities will be on display at the HIMSS15 Annual Conference & Exhibition, April 12-16, 2015, in Chicago.
In 2015, the FDA approved the first two drug-coated balloons for the U.S. market to treat peripheral artery disease in ...
Archiving capabilities and vendor neutrality are relatively simple concepts to understand, but the overarching clinical, business, and operational benefits of a vendor neutral archive (VNA) are less intuitive. The versatility of a VNA solution can be leveraged as a cornerstone of an overall enterprise imaging strategy and further. A VNA offers value to a range of initiatives from a simple archiving solution to a complete Enterprise Imaging Transformation.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
Samsung Electronics America Inc. has partnered with Heart Across America to host the Heart Across America cycling tour, aimed at increasing awareness on how to prevent heart disease and stroke.
The biggest technology news coming out of the 2015 American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual scientific sessions involved the overwhelmingly positive late-breaking trial data for transcatheter aortic and mitral valve repair. ACC dedicated an entire day of late-breaking trial presentations to this new technology, highlighting its importance in how cardiology will be changing in the coming years, moving from invasive surgical repairs to minimally invasive percutaneous therapies. There were reservations a couple years ago among most cardiologists that transcatheter procedures would not live up to the durability and outcome standards set by surgical valve replacement, but data continue to show it is comparable, and in some cases, better.
Seventeen-year-old Ariana Smith recently became the first patient at the Children's Hospital of Michigan, and the first in Michigan, to benefit from a revolutionary 3-D printed heart model to treat a very large, complex aortic aneurysm.