The ubiquitous smartphone has found its way into the pockets of nearly every clinician and patient in recent years and offers new opportunities to greatly redefine healthcare in the coming years. Smartphones and apps for healthcare — referred to as mobile health or mHealth — offer a key technology to help reduce healthcare costs, improve the efficiency of care delivery and enable greater access to high-quality care via telemedicine. mHealth can serve as a bridge between providers, healthcare IT and patients to enable true patient engagement.


At the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), Siemens Healthineers will highlight a new release of its syngo.via for Molecular Imaging software.

Cardiovascular Interventions

Below is a roundup of recent echo news that highlights technologies and topics that will be featured at the American Society of Echocardiography 2016 annual meeting this weekend in Seattle, Wash., plus video highlights from ASE 2015. 

ASE Hosts Cardiac Ultrasound Innovation Competition

Assessing Cardiotoxicity Due to Cancer Therapy

June 9, 2016 — The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will host Echovation Challenge 2016, a competition for the scientific community featuring innovative solutions to improve workflow efficiency in cardiovascular ultrasound. The event will be held at ASE's annual meeting at 5 p.m. PDT Sunday, June 12 in Ballroom B of the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

Vital Connect Inc., developer of wearable biosensor technologies, and BePATIENT, a startup that develops patient-centric digital health solutions, announce the first North American deployment of BeVITAL.

Physicians presented original research and real-world clinical evidence at a symposium organized by the Electrophysiologist International Community (EPIC) Alliance, an initiative to promote women in the field of electrophysiology.

The amount a heart ‘bleeds’ following a heart attack can predict the severity of future heart failure, according to research presented at the British Cardiovascular Conference in Manchester, England.

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