Industry trade shows and conferences seem to be making their comeback in 2024. And the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Conference and Exhibition seems particularly poised to deliver the best of the best when it comes to digital transformation in both the delivery of healthcare, but also the delivery of a quality experience for those in this demanding, rapidly evolving industry. This month in our ongoing One on One series with industry leaders, we are talking with Hal Wolf, FHIMSS, president and CEO of HIMSS. He offered insights on the society’s new partnership with Informa Markets, key topics being covered at HIMSS24, AI’s impact on the industry, and his thoughts on healthcare sustainability.
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Last August, Informa Markets and HIMSS announced a landmark partnership to propel the growth and evolution of the HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition, recognized as the most influential healthcare technology event of the year, and in North America. It draws 40,000 health professionals, tech leaders, providers and governmental organizations from across the globe. Informa Markets, the world’s largest exhibition organizer, took on management of the HIMSS Exhibition, while HIMSS continues to oversee developing expert content and programming.
At HIMSS2024, with this new collaboration comes new features, including:
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DAIC Editor Dave Fornell highlights some of the most innovative new technology on the show floor of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting. The segments include virtual reality workstations, advanced 3-D cardiac ultrasound quantification and visualization, improved echo-fluoro image fusion technology, and imaging aided by artificial intelligence.
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Partho Sengupta, M.D., DM, FACC, FASE, chief division of cardiology, director of cardiac imaging, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, explains how artificial intelligence is being integrated into echocardiography and used to mine big data to better assess patients at the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting.Â
Watch the VIDEO: Ultrasound's Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Echo, with Senguta at the ASE 2017 meeting
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Rebecca Hahn, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional echocardiography, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, explains that techniques for imaging the tricuspid valve, the advanced study of its disease etiology and the rapid development of transcatheter devices to treat tricuspid valve disease are all developing together. She spoke on these topics during sessions at both the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting and at the Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) conference in June.Â
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Recent Advances in Transcatheter Valve Technology
VIDEO: Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repair Technologies — interview with Azeem Latib, M.D.
VIDEO: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair and Replacement Technologies — interview with Rebecca Hahn, M.D.
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation Enrolls First Patient in TRILUMINATE Tricuspid Repair Trial
Positive, Sustained Improvement at One Year in SCOUT I Transcatheter Tricuspid Repair Trial
Malissa Wood, M.D., co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, explains the need for and how to create a women’s cardiovascular health center, during the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting.Â
Learn more about Mass General's cardio-obstetrics program.Â
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Diagnostic Differences in Women’s Heart Health
VIDEO: Differences in Cardiac Complications and Presentation Between Men and Women — Interview with Cindy Grines, M.D.
VIDEO: Creating a Cardio-Obstetrics Team — Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D.
VIDEO: Sex Differences in Diagnosing Heart Disease in Women — Interview with Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D.
Find more articles on women's heart issues in the Women's Cardiovascular Health channel
Malissa Wood, M.D., co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, explains the the recent debate and data for screening all student athletes for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) during the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting.Â
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Michael Lanspa, M.D., director of critical care echocardiography services, Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, explains the training initiatives by the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) for point-of-care ultrasound. Lanspa serves on the educational committees for ASE, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.Â
POCUS has seen a big expansion in cardiology to better assess patients before sending them for more advanbced imaging or tests. POCUS is also seeing widespread expansion in many other areas of healthcare, especially in emergency medicine.
POC ultrasound was discussed as one of the big recent developments at ASE 2018.Â
VIDEO: Imaging COVID-19 With Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
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Lissa Sugeng, M.D., associate professor of medicine, director of echocardiography and of the Yale Echo Core Lab, Yale School of Medicine, explains the advances and advantages of using 3-D cardiac ultrasound during the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting. She said 3-D echo still has slower frame rates than 2-D, but offers some advantages. Sugeng said echo labs should consider adding at least 3-D machine, as this technology will become the way of the future in echo. Read more about recent advances in cardiac ultrasound.Â
This is an example of the a mitral valve with regurgitation imaged with 3-D echocardiography using the Siemens SC2000 cardiac ultrasound system. The first video clip shows the 3-D anatomy of the heart, the mitral valve, its leaflet cusps tabled and the left ventricular outflow track (LVOT) of the aortic valve. The second clip shows how the software can automatically extract and quantify the regurgitant volume. The last clip shows an isolation of the mitral valve and the regurgitant jet, showing the exact location of the source, which can be used aid surgical planning. This video was shot at the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018.
Find additional technology video clips, video interviews and news from ASE.
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Sunil Mankad, M.D., FASE, ASE 2018 meeting program chair and director of transesophageal echocardiography at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., explains four big trends in cardiac ultrasound during the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting. These include the advancement of 3D echo, point-of-care ultrasound, artificial intelligence and new forms of image visualization. Read more about recent advances in cardiac ultrasound.Â
This is a demonstration of the the Philips TrueVue photo-realistic rendering and lighting source technology. This example highlights a transcatheter ASD closure with two Amplatzer occluders. The technology allows users to changing the lighting conditions to improve contrast. The light source can also be moved around to change the shadows and add more depth perception. The light source also can be pushed through the tissue to back light the anatomical structures, as shown in this example at the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2018 meeting. The backlighting confirms a gap at the top of the image where part of the septal defect remains exposed.Â
Thomas Porter, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the echocardiography lab at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, discusses potential therapeutic uses for microbubble contrast ultrasound at the 2017 American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) annual meeting.
A new clinical trial at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is examining an implanted device that uses vagus nerve stimulation to help stroke patients regain motor function. The Vivistim device is similar to a pacemaker, which uses leads to electrically stimulate the brain.Â
Read the article "New Therapy Rewires the Brain to Improve Stoke Recovery."
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Imran Ahmad, M.D., medical director of interventional cardiology, explains some of the new technologies his labs have integrated. He also explains how incorporation of his suburban hospital with Northwestern’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has enabled a new TAVR program.
Read the related article on this hospital, "Hospital Consolidation May Increase Access to TAVR, New Cardiac Technologies."
View a 360 photo in his cath lab.
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Northwestern Medicine Celebrates 2000th Transcatheter Heart Valve Procedure
VIDEO: How Consolidation Into Larger Health Systems Can Improve Access to TAVR
VIDEO: Cath Lab Tour at Northwestern Medicine's Central DuPage Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Mobile Stroke Unit Delivers Life-Saving Care 30 Minutes Sooner
360 View of a Cath Lab at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
ITN Associate Editor Jeff Zagoudis explores how the mobile stroke unit (MSU) program at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill., is changing the paradigm of care for stroke patients in the western suburbs of Chicago and beyond.Â
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Organizations who are embarking on an enterprise imaging journey share many of the same questions and concerns regarding how to best optimize workflow across providers, departments and facilities; which technologies will provide the best fit for achieving the future vision; and how to maximize value and accelerate return on investment by driving adoption and improving satisfaction among providers and healthcare consumers (patients).
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Northwestern Medicine has purchased several smaller Chicago suburban hospitals in the past few years to expand its healthcare system. This has enabled these smaller community hospitals to offer new, cutting-edge cardiovascular medical technologies much sooner than might have otherwise been possible due to its association with Northwestern Medicine's luminary Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in Chicago. Central DuPage Hospital is one of the newer hospitals in the network and now offers transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVR), transcatheter leadless pacemakers, minimally invasive left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusions and the latest surgical valve replacement technologies.Â
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Hospital Consolidation May Increase Access to TAVR, New Cardiac Technologies
Northwestern Medicine Celebrates 2000th Transcatheter Heart Valve Procedure
VIDEO: Cath Lab Tour at Northwestern Medicine's Central DuPage Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Mobile Stroke Unit Delivers Life-Saving Care 30 Minutes Sooner
360 View of a Cath Lab at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
Roxana Mehran, M.D., FACC, FACP, FCCP, FESC, FAHA, FSCAI, professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiovascular research and clinical trials at the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She spoke on how to avoid acute kidney injury (AKI) and contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) using various strategies in the cath lab to reduce iodine contrast use at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 meeting.Â
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VIDEO: Combating Contrast Induced Nephropathy in the POSEIDON Trial — Presentation by Sonjot Brar, M.D.
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A discussion with Ron Waksman, M.D., associate director of the division of cardiology and director of cardiovascular research and advanced education at MedStar Heart Institute, and professor of medicine (cardiology) at Georgetown University. He explained the ongoing clinical trials using near infrared spectroscopy to detect lipid rich plaque in the coronary arteries. He spoke to DAIC at the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting.
Find out the late-breaking results of the LRP Study in a VIDEO with Waksman at TCT 2018.Â
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James Januzzi, M.D., Roman W. DeSanctis Endowed Distinguished Clinical Scholar in Medicine, and director of the Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in cardiology research at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the use of highly sensitive troponin testing for chest pain in the emergency department (ED).
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David Lanfear M.D., FACC, head of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, discusses LVAD support technologies at the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting. Read the article “Device Technologies to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions.” Watch the VIDEO “Technologies to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions,” an interview with William Abraham, M.D., The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most interesting new technologies on the expo floor at the 2018 meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). Find links to other videos and the ACC 2018 Late-Breaking Trials.
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A discussion with Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D., associate director, Massachusetts General Hospital Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program and MGH Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Service, at the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting. Yeh explains the differences between men and women for the clinical presentation of heart attacks and other causes for chest pain. Â
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Diagnostic Differences in Women’s Heart Health
VIDEO: Differences in Cardiac Complications and Presentation Between Men and Women — Interview with Cindy Grines, M.D.
DAIC's Women's Cardiovascular Health Channel
VIDEO: How to Build a Successful Women’s Heart Center — Interview with Malissa Wood, M.D.
VIDEO: Creating a Cardio-Obstetrics Team — Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D.
A discussion with Ami Bhatt, M.D., director of the adult congenital heart program and outpatient cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, at the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting. Here is some additional related content on adult congenital heart disease:
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VIDEO: How Transcatheter PFO Closure Can Reduce Cryptogenic Stroke
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A discussion with Hitinder Gurm, M.D., MBBS, FACC, professor, internal medicine, and associate chief clinical officer, University of Michigan Health System, at the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting. For more information, read the article "Understanding Contrast-Induced Nephropathy." He discusses various strategies to help reduce iodine contrast use in the cath lab to better protect patients from CIN.
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Sliding Scale Hydration Washes Out Contrast-Induced Kidney Complications
Contrast-Induced Kidney Injury Prevented With RenalGuard in REMEDIAL III Trial
VIDEO: Strategies to Avoid Acute Kidney Injury Caused by Cath Lab Contrast — Interview with Roxana Mehran, M.D.
VIDEO: Combating Contrast Induced Nephropathy in the POSEIDON Trial — Presntation by Sonjot Brar, M.D.
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Insights from the STS/ACC TVT Transcatheter Valve Registry, presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 meeting by Sammy Elmariah, M.D., MPH, interventional structural heart disease, Massachusetts General Hospital. See the following related content for other insights into transcatheter aortic valve replacement technology:
• VIDEO: Clinical Outcomes With the Lotus TAVR Valve
• CoreValve TAVR System Shows Strong Long-Term Performance in Clinical Trials
• VIDEO: TAVR For Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis
• VIDEO: Conscious Sedation for TAVR Procedures
• VIDEO: Transcaval Access in TAVR Procedures
• VIDEO: TAVR for Degenerated Surgical Valves — Valve-in-Valve TAVR Procedures
An economic analysis of the DEFINE-FLAIR study comparing FFR vs. iFR, found a cost savings of nearly $900. The late-breaking session was presented at the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting by Manesh Patel, M.D., investigator and member of the study steering committee, and chief, division of cardiology, Duke University. Read more about the economic study.
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The Zoll LifeVest is a temporary, wearable defibrillator designed as a safety net for patients, especially those being evaluated for a permanent implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The Vest Prevention of Early Sudden Death Trial (VEST), presented at ACC 2018, was the first randomized, controlled, multi-center trial of the wearable cardioverter defibrillator. It looked to see if this device could effectively reduce sudden death in patients who had recently suffered a heart attack and had reduced heart function. Read more about the VEST Trial.Â
Sammy Elmariah, M.D., MPH, interventional structural heart disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the progression of using transcatheter heart valves to replace surgical valves at ACC.17. See the following related content for other insights into transcatheter aortic valve replacement technology:
• VIDEO: Clinical Outcomes With the Lotus TAVR Valve
• CoreValve TAVR System Shows Strong Long-Term Performance in Clinical Trials
• VIDEO: TAVR For Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis
• VIDEO: Conscious Sedation for TAVR Procedures
• VIDEO: Transcaval Access in TAVR Procedures
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This video details the first use of a new protocol at The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center to start sudden cardiac arrest patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) en route to the hospital, where they are sent straight to the cath lab. According to the hospital, the protocol has improved cardiac arrest survival rates from 0 to nearly 40 percent. Video courtesy of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Read the article “New Protocol Gives Patients Fighting Chance to Survive Cardiac Arrest”
The father of transradial artery access, Ferdinand Kiemeneij, M.D., Ph.D., interventional cardiologist, The Netherlands, explains how and why he first implemented the use of radial access and explains how the technique expanded beyond his cath lab to spread around the world. Read the article "Transradial Access Celebrates 25 Years". Watch the VIDEOÂ "New Frontiers in Radial Access."
Keep up to date on radial access news with DAIC's radial access channel.Â
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell previews the launch of augmented reality (AR) technology in the March/April 2018 issue of DAIC. Augmented reality brings new depth to print content through your smartphone by connecting to related videos and other resources.
American Heart Association (AHA) released a scientific statement Feb. 1, 2018, linking breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. Laxmi Mehta, M.D., author of the scientific statement and director of the Women’s Cardiovascular Health Program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, discusses a case from her center as an example of how the subspecialty of cardio-oncology is helping patients.
Read the article “AHA Puts New Focus on Where Heart Disease and Breast Cancer Treatment Meet.”
Watch the "VIDEO: Assessing Cardiotoxicity Response With Cardio-Oncology Echo Imaging."
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Take a video tour of some of the medical devices designed to improve patient care, improve patient engagement and increase physiologic monitoring highlighted at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). One of the most interesting technologies is a flexible electronics ECG monitor that can bend and twist with the skin and interfaces with a smartphone app. The exhibition includes more than 3,000 vendors and more than 170,000 attendees. For more examples of future healthcare technologies, watch the VIDEO “Editor's Choice of Future Healthcare Technologies at HIMSS.”Â
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Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D., associate director, MGH Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, and co-director, MGH Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Service, explains the role of a cardio-obstetrics team in caring for pregnant patients and the elements of building a strong program at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2017 meeting.
New Advice Will Help Women with Congenital Heart Defects Navigate Pregnancy
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VIDEO: Differences in Cardiac Complications and Presentation Between Men and Women — Interview with Cindy Grines, M.D.
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Cardiac Imaging Reveals Roots of Preeclampsia Damage in Pregnant Women
Marked Increase in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women After Preeclampsia
VIDEO: Sex Differences in Diagnosing Heart Disease in Women — Interview with Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D.
VIDEO: How to Build a Successful Women’s Heart Center — Interview with Malissa Wood, M.D.
Find more articles on women's heart issues in the Women's Cardiovascular Health channel
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Bernadette Speiser, BSN, MSN, CCRN, RCIS, a cardiac cath/EP nurse at Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif., and former cardiology department manager at the cardiac cath lab at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, offers insights from her SCAI Boot Camp presentation at the 2017 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference. She discusses implementing new techniques and technologies, drawing from her experience implementing radial access programs. Here are links to a couple articles she wrote on the topic “Tips When Prepping for Radial Procedures” and “How to Contend With Transradial Artery Perforation.”
Adam Greenbaum, M.D., co-director, Center for Structural Heart Disease, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, explains how his center is already performing off-label transcatheter mitral valve implantations in patients who otherwise have no more options. He also discusses some of the new transcatheter mitral valve technologies in development. Watch the VIDEO “Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repair Technologies.” Watch a VIDEO of Greenbaum explaining his use of venous-to-aortic transcaval access in TAVR.
ITN and DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most interesting new medical imaging technologies on the expo floor at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting. Watch the editor’s choice video for new health IT technologies at HIMSS 2017, new advances in cardiac ultrasound at ASE 2017, and CT advances at the SCCT 2017 meeting.
Emanuel Kanal, M.D., director of MRI services and professor of radiology and neuroradiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, explains the new mobile application he developed, which lets users visually model the forces at work during an MRI exam on patients with implanted medical devices, at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting.
Read the related article “The Changing Relationship Between MRIs and Pacemakers.”
Dianna Bardo M.D., director of body MR and co-director of the 3-D Innovation Lab at Phoenix Children's Hospital, discusses how 3-D printing and other advanced imaging modalities can help improve outcomes in complex cases. Read the article “The Use of 3-D Printing in Cardiology.” Watch the WEBINAR “Innovation and Success in 3D-inspired Development of the Business and Clinical Practice,” presented by Bardo.
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Shimadzu demonstrated its Trinias Interventional X-ray System at the 2017 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference. The system offers several features to enable improved patient access and procedural guidance at a lower radiation dose than previous generation angiography systems. For more information visit www.shimadzu.com/med/products/angio.