Information Technology

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.

Tufts Medical Center created a heart failure team approach to care for its patients. The program includes an interventional heart failure fellowship program, where interventional cardiologists learn more advanced care, as show here with an ECMO procedure being performed in a cath lab at Tufts. The interventional cardiologists learn how to better care for heart failure patients and interface with surgeons, intensivists and others on the HF care team. The operator is Nevin Kapur. Photo by Dave Fornell.
Feature | Heart Failure | Dave Fornell, Editor

There is no, single magic bullet in heart failure (HF) to easily reduce readmission rates or easily reverse this complex ...

Home February 20, 2020
Home
Here is an example of Fitbit data showing comparisons of data from Fitbit users by state. Residents in some states that take more steps in a day typically have lower incidences of diabetes, as showing in this population health big data heat map from consumer-grade wearable health tracking devices..
Feature | Population Health | Dave Fornell, Editor

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights physical activity as one of four key behaviors people ...

Home February 14, 2020
Home
News | Artificial Intelligence

February 13, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared software to assist medical professionals in the ...

Home February 13, 2020
Home
Feature | Artificial Intelligence | Sanjay Parekh, Ph.D. 

February 7, 2020 – At the 2019 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in December, there was a record ...

Home February 11, 2020
Home
News | Dave Fornell, Editor

February 3, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) m ...

Home February 03, 2020
Home
News | Cath Lab

January 29, 2020 – Nuance Communications Inc. introduced Nuance Cardiovascular CAPD, a new computer-assisted physician ...

Home January 31, 2020
Home
News | ECG Management Systems | Dave Fornell, Editor

The movement from paper electrocardiogram (ECG) review to electronic ECG management systems in the past decade has ...

Home January 29, 2020
Home
Blog

The key question I am always asked at cardiology conferences is what are the trends and interesting new technologies I ...

Home January 24, 2020
Home
Why Structured Reporting is Needed in Cardiology
Feature | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Cardiology was already heavily data driven, where clinical practice is driven by clinical study data, but mining a ...

Home January 23, 2020
Home
News

January 22, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared VivaLNK's Continuous ECG Platform. It consisting ...

Home January 22, 2020
Home
Videos | RSNA

DAIC/ITN Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new medical imaging technologies displayed on ...

Home January 13, 2020
Home
News | Artificial Intelligence

January 13, 2020 — A new technology for detecting low glucose levels via electrocardiogram (ECG) using a non-invasive ...

Home January 13, 2020
Home
Videos | Wearables

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is the world's gathering place for consumer technologies, with more than 175,000 ...

Home January 09, 2020
Home
Videos | Hemodynamic Support Devices

Richard Botto, CVT, RCSA, chief cardiovascular technologist, division of cardiology, cardiac cath lab, and Melissa Smith ...

Home January 09, 2020
Home
News | Artificial Intelligence

January 9, 2020 — Maulik Majmudar, M.D., chief medical officer at Amazon will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming ...

Home January 09, 2020
Home
Subscribe Now