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.

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.

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), Haymarket Medical Education (HME) and myCME have joined forces to develop RightSTEPS: Optimizing Medical Therapy for Chronic Heart Failure. This long-term education initiative aims to help clinicians follow prescribing guidelines to reduce hospitalizations and readmissions and to improve patient outcomes to address the 75 percent of chronic heart failure (HF) patients who do not receive optimal doses of guideline-recommended drugs.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, CHLA, Frank Ing, 3-D printed model, pulmonary artery
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, CHLA, pediatric stent, 3-D printed model, Nate Yamane

When Children’s Hospital Los Angeles cardiologists found evidence that a portion of Nate Yamane’s pulmonary artery they had repaired once before was again narrowing, pediatric interventional cardiologist Frank Ing, M.D., decided they needed to insert a stent to keep the right artery open.

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.

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