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A recently completed National Institutes of Health-funded trial confirms the efficacy of blood flow measurement technology from VasSol Inc. to predict the possibility of repeated stroke in at-risk individuals.

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Pediatric cardiology researchers and clinicians from numerous centers around the world gathered at the Cardiology 2015: the 18th Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease conference, Feb. 11-15 in Scottsdale, Ariz. sponsored by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

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At the 2015 annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Carestream will demostrate its flexible Clinical Collaboration Platform, which now offers a new module to tag clinical data files and bring them into the workflow. These new capabilities build upon Carestream’s fully featured vendor neutral archive (VNA) architecture.

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Discovery MR750, MRI recall, GE, FDA recall
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GE Healthcare initiated a voluntary field corrective action for all of its magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems with superconducting magnets that were manufactured from 1985 through today. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified it as a Class 1 product recall Feb. 18.

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Biotronik announced the completion of enrollment in the BIOSOLVE-II trial — a clinical study investigating the safety and performance of DREAMS (DRug Eluting Absorbable Metal Scaffold).

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Three out of five healthcare IT professionals believe that government mandates are having a negative effect on their industry, according to a study conducted by Peak 10, a national information technology (IT) infrastructure and cloud services provider. The majority (94 percent) also noted that complying with regulations influences IT strategy and decision-making. With rare exception, respondents claimed they lack the expertise necessary to navigate the maze of government regulations.

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Lutonix, drug eluting balloon, drug coated balloon
Feature | Drug-Eluting Balloons | Dave Fornell

Drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) have been one of the long-awaited new transcatheter technologies to help reduce high restenosis rates in peripheral artery disease (PAD). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared C. R. Bard’s Lutonix 035 DEB in November 2014 and Medtronic’s In.Pact Admiral DEB in January 2015. Both are indicated for use in the superficial femoral and popliteal arteries in the upper leg.

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At the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, ContextVision exhibited results from research conducted in collaboration with Texas Instruments and High Performance Consulting on 3-D adaptive filtering for improved image quality on portable medical devices. Björn Norell, research scientist at ContextVision, presented the findings.

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Calgary Scientific Inc. announced the release of ResolutionMD 5.0, which offers better access to health information, supports increased teamwork and enhances communication among practitioners and patients.

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Looking to “bypass the ordinary,” during last week’s episode titled: “The Bed's Too Big Without You,” the Grey’s Anatomy team at Seattle Grace Hospital was challenged with treating a radical tumor in the chest. After printing a 3-D model of the surgical area, Dr. Alex Karev commented that the best course of action to access the chest and successfully remove the mass would involve “the McGinn technique.”

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iRhythm Technologies Inc. announced the study, “Cost Analysis and Clinical Outcomes of Ambulatory Care Monitoring in Medicare Patients,” was published in the Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research. The study assessed the costs incurred in the diagnosis, additional monitoring and following clinical events after the initial use of the Holter monitor among Medicare patients with arrhythmia.

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Cerner Corp. and development partner Mortara Instrument have joined together to introduce CareAware Waveform Management. The system displays waveforms and other physiological data from patient monitoring systems and integrates them into the electronic health record (EHR).

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Radiation dose monitoring software analytics offered by Sectra.
Feature | Radiation Dose Management | Dave Fornell

Cardiac imaging accounts for about one-third of the source of X-ray radiation dose for all medical imaging. Expanding use of computed tomography (CT) for cardiac evaluations, use of nuclear imaging for myocardial perfusion exams and more complex transcatheter procedures in the cath lab have all increased patient exposure in recent years.

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The spirit of collaboration to improve health with information technology came to Cleveland, Ohio, when the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon 2015 opened in January 2015. Almost 100 organizations and 555 engineers attended this annual testing event.

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Physicians who use the clinical reference tool, DynaMed from EBSCO Health, can now access the valuable, evidence-based content anywhere with the new DynaMedmobile app. The new app has been redesigned to make it easier and faster for physicians to find answers to clinical questions.

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