Through participation in the new Interventional Radiology (IR) Registry, interventional radiologists can take steps to improve quality of care and outcomes for patients undergoing image-guided interventional procedures.
Up to 40 percent of emergency room (ER) patients with chest pain can safely go home in a little under 2 hours, using a highly sensitive, newly U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved blood test and a heart health scoring system. These findings were drawn from an international study led by Henry Ford Health System.
March 1, 2017 — BTG plc announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance has been granted to the Ekos ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
Machine learning is now being commercialized in medical imaging products designed to help improve workflow efficiency ...
Huge portions of the globally produced radiotracers find their origin within geographically centralized, commercial ...
February 28, 2017 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) published updated guidelines regarding the NEMA XR-29 (MITA ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
EchoPixel recently announced True 3-D print support functionality, a new set of software tools designed to assist physicians using models they create with their 3-D printers built on EchoPixel’s True 3-D Viewer software. The workflows allow medical professionals to visualize and interact with patient-specific anatomy that can be directly converted into 3-D-printed models. This allows professionals to create their models with greater quality and accuracy, and to print right the first time.
February 28, 2017 — Magnetom Vida, the new high-end 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner with BioMatrix ...
February 28, 2017 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel has recommended market clearance for the Claret ...
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Ursula Wright, MSN/MBA, FNP-BC, from Mercy Health System, explains how the nation's fifth largest Catholic health system ...
Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision Growth Partnership Service program released a new report, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) – R&D and Applications Roadmap” detailing the potential future growth of AI across several industries, including healthcare.
At the 55th Annual Meeting for the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Siemens Healthineers announced its new Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem platform. The platform is to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem linking healthcare providers and solution providers with one another as well as bringing together their data, applications and services.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
Abiomed Inc. announced that it has supported more than 50,000 patients in the U.S. with its Impella line of heart pumps. Impella heart pumps enable minimally invasive treatment for high-risk heart failure patients who might otherwise have no treatment options.
The Software & Information Industry Association recently announced the 2017 Jesse H. Neal Award finalists, with DAIC named a finalist in the Best Use of Social Media category for its extensive social media campaign in cardiology in 2016. The enhanced social media campaign helped DAIC reach 1 million pageviews for the year for the first time in November 2016.
Using data from the world’s largest computed tomography (CT) dose index registry, researchers have established national dose levels for common adult CT examinations based on patient size. Healthcare facilities can optimize these exam protocols so that dose is commensurate with the size of the patient, avoiding unnecessary radiation exposure.