In a case believed to be a United States first, the radiology team at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has used prenatal magnetic resonance imaging to detect an often-misdiagnosed genetic disease. Continue Reading
Intelerad Medical Systems, a recognized leader in medical imaging PACS and workflow solutions, today announced that Carolina Regional Radiology PA will be leveraging InteleOne to interconnect its facilities. CRR is a full-service radiology practice serving a ten-county region in southeastern North Carolina. Continue Reading
New preliminary data from a pilot study in the Netherlands indicates that imaging tools may help address the most challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care as identified by the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its expert witnesses last week: to treat or not treat, AdMeTech Foundation’s President and CEO Dr. Faina Shtern said today. Continue Reading
Geisinger Health System and Yale School of Medicine investigators are researching how young people recover from heart attacks through VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes in Young AMI Patients), a research project funded by the National, 心脏, Lung and Blood Institute. Continue Reading
The Indiana Network for Patient Care, one of the highest volume health information exchanges in the United States, is expanding beyond central Indiana to serve patients from southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Continue Reading
Three critical recommendations from a national workshop have been released to address deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), a growing public health problem estimated to affect nearly 1 million Americans each year. Continue Reading
Feintuch Communications, 公司. (www.feintuchcommunications.com) has created an integrated public and investor relations healthcare and life sciences practice, naming Jules Abraham as vice president of the firm and managing director of the new group. Continue Reading
According to Millennium Research Group, the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the recent launch of irrigated-tip catheters into the Japanese market will drive the ablation catheter market by a compound annual growth rate of approximately 15% through 2014. Continue Reading
The annual Harris Poll that has measured key health risks – smoking, seat belt use, weight and obesity – for the last 28 years, provides both good and bad news. Continue Reading
Two core premises underlie Mobile Surgery International’s mission to broaden access to surgical choice and quality. The first is that patients (and payers) should be able to make decisions about surgical options based upon access to complete information up front about all of the necessary services associated with their surgical procedure, the skill and expertise of the surgeon carrying out the procedure, and the total costs involved. Continue Reading
