Professional physician associations consider certain routine tests before elective surgery to be of low value and high cost, and have sought to discourage their utilization. Nonetheless, a new national study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center finds that despite these peer-reviewed recommendations, no significant changes have occurred over a 14-year period in the rates of several kinds of these pre-operative tests.

Healthcare networks can now remotely manage computed tomography (CT) protocols and capture valuable analytics that could improve safety with Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc.'s CT Vitality software. Part of the Vitality Solutions portfolio, CT Vitality is available on Aquilion One systems and will facilitate protocol utilization and dose usage analytics so hospitals and multi-site integrated delivery networks (IDNs) can ensure consistently safe scans every time.

Start-up company GraftWorx was chosen as "Best in Show" at the Mid-Atlantic Bio Angels (MABA) 1st Pitch Life Science event, an investors' conference held in New York in June. Graftworx is a medical device company that has developed a unique peripheral vascular prosthetic bypass graft incorporating a sensor that can alert physicians when blood flow in the graft is blocked due to restenosis. 

Medtronic plc announced initial clinical outcomes for its next-generation CoreValve Evolut R System at the 64th annual scientific session of the American College of Cardiology, March 14-16 in San Diego. At 30-days, the recapturable, self-expanding valve showed no incidents of all-cause mortality or stroke in a high and extreme risk patient population. The Evolut R Study enrolled 60 patients from six centers in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

GE Healthcare announced that it has created a solution to make positron emission tomography (PET) tracers for diagnostic imaging more readily available. At the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), GE launched new products for radiopharmaceutical manufacturing, including GENtrace, a small cyclotron, with a smaller footprint that is optimized for ease-of-use; and FASTlab 2, a PET tracer production module with FDG Duo cassettes, to maximize the hot cell capacity.

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