Friday, May 11
St. Francis Hospital has installed Ingenuity CT and IntelliSpace Portal at its emergency facility.
Friday, May 11
BOSTON—Left ventricular (LV) lead placement at or next to the site of the latest mechanical activation shows a survival benefit over remote placement, and echocardiograph-guided targeting of the site with speckle tracking is superior to routine LV lead positioning during cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), according to trial results presented May 11 at the 33rd annual scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society.
Wednesday, May 09
LAS VEGAS—Coronary angiography has a variety of limitations in the cardiac cath lab due to both operator and technological causes, according to a May 9 presentation by J. Dawn Abbott, MD, of Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).
Wednesday, May 09
BOSTON—No device or lead failures or patient deaths have occurred among 454 patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators undergoing MRI scans as part of The MagnaSafe Registry, according to a presentation May 9 at the Heart Rhythm Society's 33rd annual scientific sessions.
Thursday, April 05
CHICAGO—A case study on a patient with dyspnea raised questions about evaluation for ischemia in women and protocols for stress testing March 26 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific sessions.
Thursday, April 05
CHICAGO—Although nearly nine in 10 transthoracic echocardiograms (TTEs) met appropriate use criteria (AUC) by 2011, fewer than one-third resulted in a change in care, according to a single-center study presented March 26 as a scientific poster at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session.
Friday, March 30
CHICAGO—While appropriate use criteria (AUC) documents were created with the intent to help deliver high-quality care, there is much room for improvement, said Fredrick A. Masoudi, MD, associate professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of Colorado in Denver, March 26 during a presentation at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session.
Tuesday, March 27
Virtual Radiologic (vRad) announced its 2012 scholarship program with the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA). The scholarship covers registration fees and other costs recipients incur for attending RBMA conferences.
Tuesday, March 27
CHICAGO—Using cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) early on in the presentation of chest pain may more accurately assess patients who should be admitted for MI, according to the results of the late-breaking ROMICAT II trial presented March 27 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session. Additionally, CCTA resulted in a reduction of length of stay at essentially no increased cost.
Monday, March 26
CHICAGO—The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been debated and discussed ad nauseam, but how will the guts of the bill actually impact doctors? This is the question Richard E. Anderson, MD, chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company, asked March 25 at an afternoon session at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session. While the bill’s goal is to insure more Americans, Anderson said ultimately it will increase demand yet offer no break in terms of supply or professional liability.
Sunday, March 25
When it comes to cost effectiveness, echocardiography and chronic coronary artery disease (CAD), consider rethinking the terminology. That was one message from a March 25 presentation at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 61st annual scientific session.
Sunday, March 25
CHICAGO—Evaluation of acute chest pain in the emergency department setting with stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) results in a lower one-year cardiac event rate and at lower costs compared with exercise treadmill testing, according to a scientific poster presented March 25 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session.
Sunday, March 25
CHICAGO—In patients with large anterior STEMI presenting early after symptom onset and undergoing primary PCI with bivalirudin (Angiomax, The Medicines Company) anticoagulation, infarct size at 30 days was significantly reduced by bolus intracoronary abciximab (ReoPro, Eli Lilly) delivered to the infarct lesion site but not by manual aspiration thrombectomy, according to INFUSE-AMI, a late-breaking clinical trial presented March 25 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) scientific session.
Friday, March 23
CHICAGO—The inclusion of physicians in marketing and outreach to medical professionals and consumers was crucial to increasing volume of Riverside Medical Center’s peripheral vascular program in both primary and secondary markets, according to a poster presentation at the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA) annual meeting, March 21 to 23.
Friday, March 23
New guidelines for CT-guided biopsies of lung nodules can significantly reduce radiation exposure, according to research presented March 25 at the Society of Interventional Radiology's (SIR) 37th annual scientific meeting in San Francisco.
Thursday, March 22
CHICAGO—It is a physician's professional duty to acknowledge and form appropriate use criteria in healthcare, said Manesh Patel, MD, director of cath lab research at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., during a presentation March 22 at the annual American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA) meeting. Additionally, he said that the current system needs work, but there may not be one solution to fix it.
Wednesday, March 21
Radiotherapy treatment (RT) after surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has a major protective effect against recurrence more than 15 years later, according to the results of an international trial presented March 22 at the 8th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-8).
Friday, March 16
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A panel of CIOs from various Northeastern provider settings discussed their organizations’ IT initiatives and their future IT needs during the inaugural eHealth Innovation Conference March 15.
Thursday, March 15
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—“There’s a bandwidth limitation,” said Ray Campbell, Esq, MPA, executive director and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, speaking March 14 at the inaugural eHealth Innovation Conference and referring to the limits facing healthcare technology innovation.
Thursday, March 15
The American College of Cardiology’s 61st annual scientific session March 24-27 in Chicago will include two late-breaking clinical trials assessing the use of coronary CT angiography in patients who present with chest pain at the emergency room. The studies are among 18 late-breaking clinical trials scheduled at ACC.12.
