News | Heart Valve Technology
February 28, 2017 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel has recommended market clearance for the Claret ...
February 28, 2017
Videos | Heart Failure
Ursula Wright, MSN/MBA, FNP-BC, from Mercy Health System, explains how the nation's fifth largest Catholic health system ...
February 27, 2017
News | Artificial Intelligence
Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision Growth Partnership Service program released a new report, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) – R&D and Applications Roadmap” detailing the potential future growth of AI across several industries, including healthcare.
February 24, 2017Sponsored Content
Feature | Information Technology
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
March 21, 2024
Technology | Enterprise Imaging
At the 55th Annual Meeting for the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Siemens Healthineers announced its new Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem platform. The platform is to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem linking healthcare providers and solution providers with one another as well as bringing together their data, applications and services.
February 24, 2017
Abiomed Inc. announced that it has supported more than 50,000 patients in the U.S. with its Impella line of heart pumps. Impella heart pumps enable minimally invasive treatment for high-risk heart failure patients who might otherwise have no treatment options.
February 24, 2017
News | Cardiovascular Business
The Software & Information Industry Association recently announced the 2017 Jesse H. Neal Award finalists, with DAIC named a finalist in the Best Use of Social Media category for its extensive social media campaign in cardiology in 2016. The enhanced social media campaign helped DAIC reach 1 million pageviews for the year for the first time in November 2016.
February 23, 2017Sponsored Content
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
March 05, 2024
News | Radiation Dose Management
Using data from the world’s largest computed tomography (CT) dose index registry, researchers have established national dose levels for common adult CT examinations based on patient size. Healthcare facilities can optimize these exam protocols so that dose is commensurate with the size of the patient, avoiding unnecessary radiation exposure.
February 23, 2017
News | Heart Failure
The American College of Cardiology (ACC), Haymarket Medical Education (HME) and myCME have joined forces to develop RightSTEPS: Optimizing Medical Therapy for Chronic Heart Failure. This long-term education initiative aims to help clinicians follow prescribing guidelines to reduce hospitalizations and readmissions and to improve patient outcomes to address the 75 percent of chronic heart failure (HF) patients who do not receive optimal doses of guideline-recommended drugs.
February 22, 2017
Feature | Medical 3-D Printing
When Children’s Hospital Los Angeles cardiologists found evidence that a portion of Nate Yamane’s pulmonary artery they had repaired once before was again narrowing, pediatric interventional cardiologist Frank Ing, M.D., decided they needed to insert a stent to keep the right artery open.
February 22, 2017Sponsored Content
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When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
December 11, 2023
News | Cath Lab
Two new Ontario-wide heart attack protocols for paramedic services and emergency departments that aim to saves lives went into effect February 1.
February 22, 2017
News | Radial Access
If hospitals can perform more transradial, same-day percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), hospitals across the U.S. could collectively save $300 million each year, according to research published recently in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. The procedure is also better for patients as it results in fewer health complications.
February 22, 2017
Technology | Advanced Visualization
TeraRecon debuted their new high-performance, cloud-based augmented reality solution, the HoloPack Portal, at the 2017 Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS17) Annual Conference & Exhibition, in Orlando, Fla. The HoloPack Portal extends the TeraRecon viewing platform to provide a full-spectrum user experience that is applicable to both clinical experts and their patients.
February 21, 2017Sponsored Content
Case Study | Hemodynamic Monitoring Systems
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
November 14, 2023
A new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), unveiled at the 2017 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, reinforces the positive impact health information technology (IT) has on the U.S. economy while signaling challenges ahead for the expansion of health IT’s footprint.
February 21, 2017
Technology | Enterprise Imaging
Philips recently announced the introduction of IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition at the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting, Feb. 19-23 in Orlando, Fla. IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition is a highly performing, secure and scalable healthcare informatics platform that enables health systems to manage the growth and cost of their clinical enterprise with a managed service and pay-per-use model. The platform offers a full suite of interoperable healthcare informatics applications and services for hospitals and integrated health networks. It helps health enterprises’ further improve quality of care while meeting the evolving challenges of budget constraints and the management, interoperability, security and value maximization of health data and information technology (IT) platforms.
February 21, 2017
News | Information Technology
Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic healthcare system in the nation, was named a 2016 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Enterprise Davies Award recipient this month for achieving improvements in patient care through the use of health information technology.
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