Two new Ontario-wide heart attack protocols for paramedic services and emergency departments that aim to saves lives went into effect February 1.

If hospitals can perform more transradial, same-day percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), hospitals across the U.S. could collectively save $300 million each year, according to research published recently in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. The procedure is also better for patients as it results in fewer health complications.

TeraRecon debuted their new high-performance, cloud-based augmented reality solution, the HoloPack Portal, at the 2017 Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS17) Annual Conference & Exhibition, in Orlando, Fla. The HoloPack Portal extends the TeraRecon viewing platform to provide a full-spectrum user experience that is applicable to both clinical experts and their patients.

A new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), unveiled at the 2017 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, reinforces the positive impact health information technology (IT) has on the U.S. economy while signaling challenges ahead for the expansion of health IT’s footprint.

Philips recently announced the introduction of IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition at the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting, Feb. 19-23 in Orlando, Fla. IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition is a highly performing, secure and scalable healthcare informatics platform that enables health systems to manage the growth and cost of their clinical enterprise with a managed service and pay-per-use model. The platform offers a full suite of interoperable healthcare informatics applications and services for hospitals and integrated health networks. It helps health enterprises’ further improve quality of care while meeting the evolving challenges of budget constraints and the management, interoperability, security and value maximization of health data and information technology (IT) platforms.

Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic healthcare system in the nation, was named a 2016 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Enterprise Davies Award recipient this month for achieving improvements in patient care through the use of health information technology.

Siemens Healthineers announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s Compressed Sensing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. Compressed Sensing slashes the long acquisition times associated with MRI to enable dramatically shortened scans. For example, cardiac cine imaging with Compressed Sensing can be completed in just 16 seconds rather than the traditional four minutes, courtesy of an algorithm that reduces the required amount of data.

According to Vertess, an international healthcare-focused M + A advisory firm with expertise in diverse healthcare and human service verticals, ranging from healthcare IT to life sciences and other specialized services and products, every sector of the healthcare industry is struggling to figure out what TrumpCare will mean to their businesses. Some will do better under TrumpCare, but most will do worse. There is one sector, however, which is guaranteed to grow like gangbusters under a Trump administration: Healthcare IT. Vertess explains why.

Medtronic plc announced that its coronary portfolio will now include the DxTerity Diagnostic Angiography Catheter line and several transradial-specific products. Additional products include the DxTerity TRA, InTRAkit access kit and TRAcelet compression device, all of which received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance and CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark for use in diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

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