March 2, 2010 – Cardiac enhancements to ensure the highest image quality at lower radiation doses are among the new software upgrades released this week for the Aquilion ONE CT system.
March 2, 2010 – To better integrate technologies that will yield faster delivery of meaningful health information, Microsoft Corp. and Philips Healthcare are collaborating to improve clinical decision support offerings and reduce development and infrastructure costs.
March 1, 2010 – The FDA recently granted 510(k) market clearance to the Volcano Corp. Eagle Eye Platinum digital intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) catheter.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
March 1, 2010 - To meet the growing clinical demand to lower radiation dose during cardiac computed tomography (CT) scans, while still maintaining the same image quality, has caused imaging equipment manufacturers to look to information technology (IT) for solutions.
March 1, 2010 - How is portal-driven technology setting new standards for customizable, role-based, context-sensitive, and knowledge-driven radiology workflow? Software solutions providers would like to know.
March 1, 2010 – An enterprise-wide scalable cardiology information management system (CIMS) that consolidates the workflow of the entire range of noninvasive diagnostic cardiology modalities will be highlighted in SpaceLabs’ booth 2644 at the ACC 2010 conference, March 14-16, in Atlanta.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
March 1, 2010 – Surgery and stenting to open blocked neck arteries proved similar in overall long-term safety and efficacy, but showed differences in stroke and heart attack in the weeks following the procedure, according to late-breaking science presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010.
March 1, 2010 – At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Atlanta today, Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco HealthPresence platform. The advanced, care-at-a-distance technology platform connects patients with doctors and clinicians for healthcare consultations.
March 1, 2010 – A collaborative agreement with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador and Vicor Technologies Inc. to help identify patients at risk of sudden cardiac death and autonomic nervous system dysfunction.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
March 1, 2010 - Getting current and past medication history assembled and ready in case of emergencies is one of the strongest value propositions for using an online personal health records (PHR), according to data from Google Health.
March 1, 2010 - Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin landed for a meet-and-greet, one-hour photo opportunity session for media at Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 in Atlanta.
March 1, 2010 - “Meaningful use” is poised to be the major driver of healthcare information technology (IT) spending in 2010, in addition to other supporting factors, such as recovering economy, suggests results of the 21st Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Leadership Survey.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
March 1, 2010 - By empowering healthcare organizations to automatically extract unstructured clinical documentation, healthcare organizations will increase the amount of meaningful data that can be used for clinical decision making, leading to improved patient care and a reduction in overall healthcare costs.
February 26, 2010 - Beginning in 2012, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) will require accreditation of ambulatory care facilities that bill Medicare for advanced imaging exams (MR, CT, PET and nuclear medicine exams). However, MIPPA does not apply to hospital providers of these services and does not include radiation therapy.
The Washington Hospital (TWH), a 239-bed not-for-profit community hospital in the highly competitive cardiac market of western Pennsylvania, gained an edge against the competition by automating the charge management process of its cardiovascular service line.