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This channel includes news and new technology innovations for healthcare information technology (HIT) as it relates to cardiology reporting systems, cardiac PACS, electronic medical records, electronic health records, EMRs, EHRs, radiology PACS integration, clinical decision support, advaned imaging visualization, analytics software and cybersecurity.

As interventional procedures become more complex, one of the biggest issues is the ability of operators to see the devices they are using in the soft tissue anatomy that is mostly invisible under 2-D fluoroscopy. Several companies have developed new navigation aids, including multimodality fusion imaging software from Philips, GE and Siemens. This image shows a new system being developed by Centerline Biomedical. There is a more detailed image below.
Feature | Cath Lab Navigation Aids | Vikash Goel

When Andreas Grüntzig, father of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, approached his cardiac surgeon ...

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News | Medical 3-D Printing

April 26, 2019 — A 72-year-old woman from northern Michigan became Henry Ford Health System’s 1,000th patient treated ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

Dee Dee Wang, M.D., director of structural heart imaging, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., explains how patient ...

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Figure 1: A computed tomography angiography (CTA) study performed for transcatheter aortic valve replacement planning.  Interventional imagers created and interpret these images as part of the heart team.
Feature | Structural Heart | Nadeen N. Faza, M.D., Dee Dee Wang, M.D., Joao Cavalcante, M.D., Andrew D. Choi, M.D., Jeffrey B. Geske, M.D., and Stephen H. Little, M.D.
Recent months have signaled a new and exciting era in the dynamic world of structural heart disease (SHD). The COAPT ...
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News | Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

April 19, 2019 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is extending the public comment period by 30 ...

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With Intellispace Enterprise Edition as the foundation, Philips Healthcare is connecting facilities and service areas ...

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Videos | Artificial Intelligence

Paul Chang, M.D., professor of radiology, vice chair of radiology informatics and medical director for enterprise ...

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News | Interventional Radiology

April 10, 2019 —Smart speakers customarily used in your living room can act as an aid to physicians in hospital ...

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 The ScImage cloud-based PICOM365 enterprise cardiology is one of the newer generation echo reporting solutions that offers several ways to streamline workflow.
Feature | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | Dave Fornell, Editor

Echocardiography reporting systems are usually integrated with, or offered as an add-on module for a cardiovascular ...

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Technology | Mobile Devices

April 5, 2019 — Healthereum LLC released the beta version of the Healthereum Life Portfolio, or HELIO, a mobile ...

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Technology | Radiation Dose Management

April 4, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Omega Medical Imaging 510(k) clearance to offer ...

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News | Advanced Visualization

April 4, 2019 — Increasing demand for innovative diagnostic techniques, neurological disorders and increasing disease ...

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News | Artificial Intelligence | Jeff Zagoudis, Associate Editor

April 2, 2019 — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced Tuesday the agency ...

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Technology | Virtual and Augmented Reality

April 2, 2019 — Medical imaging and visualization company Medivis announced the launch of AnatomyX, its augmented ...

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How to reduce radiation dose in cardiac CT.
Feature | CT Angiography (CTA) | Dave Fornell, Editor
April 1, 2019 — Here is a checklist of dose-sparing practices for coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) ...
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