Feature | Sunny Sanyal
What factors are driving increased adoption of healthcare information technology, otherwise known as HIT? Clinical IT and technology in general are getting a lot of focus from the government, from the industry, from clinicians — and the drive to make healthcare safer is what's driving overall growth of clinical IT and technology adoption.
May 22, 2006
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One of the highest priorities for physicians who diagnose and treat heart failure conditions is to keep their patients ...
May 22, 2006
Feature | Kim Phelan
It struck me the other day that while thousands of healthcare information technology (HIT) executives flock to San Diego ...
May 22, 2006Sponsored 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
Feature | Kim Phelan
It’s not uncommon for a cardiologist at University Community Hospital (UCH) in Tampa to walk about two miles to get his ...
May 22, 2006
Feature | Richard R. Rogoski
Minimally-invasive surgery has proven to be safer, requires a shorter hospital stay and is cosmetically preferred over ...
May 22, 2006
Feature | Ryan Hiett
Coronary bypass surgery, a difficult and painful way to repair major damage caused by coronary artery disease, may be on its way out — and it’s a long time coming for researchers like Douglas Losordo, M.D. After all, he’s spent the past 10 years looking into the possibilities of adult stem cell therapy as a viable alternative to the procedure.
May 22, 2006Sponsored Content
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
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Feature | Mark Paquin
Although implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been around for nearly 20 years, they gained notoriety in 2001 when Vice President Dick Cheney became a high-profile patient who underwent the implantation procedure.
May 22, 2006
Feature | J. Steven Hata, MD, director, Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia and Kristy Walker
Intensive care units are highly dependent on the efficient transfer of physiological data to multiple healthcare providers. In the delivery of healthcare in 2006 there exists a strong rationale for a tight relationship between critical care and information technology (Celi, Hassan, Marquardt, Breslow, & Rosenfeld, 2001).
May 21, 2006
Feature | Ryan Hiett
Technological advancements over the years have forced most OR methods used in 1964 into dusty, old history books and ...
May 21, 2006Sponsored Content
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When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
December 11, 2023Feature | Namrata Sundaresan
Blood pressure measurement is a given for patients in the hospital, but for surgical or critically ill patients — in ...
May 21, 2006
Feature | Ellen Hansen, director of Clinical Informatics Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Electronic medical information improves patient safety by providing immediate and complete access to complex patient ...
May 21, 2006
Feature | Ryan Hiett
It’s like a never-ending battle — that’s how Lena Napolitano, M.D., describes the recent and sharp rise in nosocomial ...
May 21, 2006Sponsored Content
Case Study | Hemodynamic Monitoring Systems
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
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DAIC: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...
May 02, 2006
Technology
A new spot blood pressure monitoring product from Medwave can now be sold and marketed in the U.S. Primo is a handheld ...
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