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Category Archives: Cardiology
HIV patients face extra heart risks
People with HIV are four times more likely to suffer sudden cardiac death than the general population, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The 10-year study, published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, looked at nearly 3,000 HIV patients at San Francisco General Hospital between 2000 and 2009. Among the 230 who died, AIDS was the most common cause, accounting for more than half the deaths. Continue reading
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Advocate Health Care Selects Merge Healthcare for End-to-End, Enterprise-Wide Cardiac Imaging and Informatics Solution
CHICAGO, May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE – News), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced that Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s top 10 health care systems,* will implement Merge’s complete cardiology solution suite to capture, manage and display cardiac images, and hemodynamics and ECG data across its enterprise of more than 250 care sites, including 10 acute-care hospitals and two integrated children’s hospitals. “Advocate is an example for others to follow as they’ve set in place a strategy that promotes the sharing of images and information across their enterprise,” said Jeff Surges, CEO, Merge Healthcare. “They are taking the critically important step of providing physicians with access to images and information regardless of their location. Continue reading
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Tagged advocate, advocate-health, chief-medical, enterprise, executive-vice, location, merge, merge-healthcare, office, president, sharing
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Texas-Based Facility Selects Digisonics Cardiology PACS and Structured Reporting System
HOUSTON – WellMed, a healthcare company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas selected the Digisonics CVIS for structured reporting of their cardiovascular studies. The healthcare company provides specialized care to 90,000 patients, mostly Medicare-eligible seniors Continue reading
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Tagged and-eliminating, cardiology, cardiovascular, digisonics, houston, james-devlin, marketing, patient, power-meters-, president, reducing-manual, software, structured, texas, turnaround-from
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Malaya Business Insight
Details Published on Monday, 14 May 2012 00:00 European cardiology expertspresents guidelines in Cardio Care PHILIPPINE heart doctors received practice guidelines from European cardiology experts during the 17th Joint Annual Convention of the Philippine Society of Hypertension and Philippine Lipid and Atherosclerosis Society at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Continue reading
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Tagged atherosclerosis, crowne, during-the-17th, europe, hotel-global, lipoprotein, treatment, university
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Henry Ford Hospital Names Director of New Structural Heart Disease Program
DETROIT, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — William W. O’Neill, M.D., has been appointed medical director of the new Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital. Continue reading
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Tagged career, douglas-weaver, first, health, heart-disease, henry, henry-ford, hospital, medical, medical-group, michigan, research, school, seymour-gordon, university
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Returning To Detroit, William O'Neill Heads To Henry Ford Hospital
Interventional cardiology leader William O'Neill is leaving the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to become the medical director of the new Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The new center will focus on new minimally-invasive treatments for heart failure and heart valve disease. Continue reading
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Tagged center, detroit, focus-on-new, henry, henry-ford, hospital, medical, new-center, school
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Advocate Health Care partners with Merge Healthcare to provide physicians instant access to cardiac imaging and …
Merge Healthcare, a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, has announced that Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s top health care systems, will implement Merge’s complete cardiology solution suite to capture, manage and display cardiac images, and hemodynamics and ECG data across its enterprise of more than 250 care sites, including 10 acute-care hospitals … Continue reading
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Tagged 250-care, a-across-its, advocate-health, care-systems, ecg, has-announced, its-enterprise, manage-and, merge-healthcare, solution-suite
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Advocate buys children's cardiology group
Advocate buys children’s cardiology group (Crain’s) Advocate Medical Group has acquired a 13-doctor pediatric cardiology practice, a sign that large hospital-owned physician groups are continuing to bulk up. The acquisition of the Heart Institute for Children increases Advocate’s team of pediatric cardiology specialists to 36 doctors, from 23. Continue reading
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Tagged a-key-way, advocate-health, advocate-hope, andrew-griffin, children, consulting-firm, for-independent, health-systems, heart-institute, medical-centers, more-difficult, particular, prominent-local, tarek-husayni
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Florida Cardiology Chooses dashboardMD to Provide Expedited Healthcare Analytics for Physicians
Florida Cardiology, P.A., an eight location practice with 17 cardiologists, has selected the evidence-based practice management services of dashboardMD, a leading provider of business intelligence reporting solutions for healthcare.Miami, FL (PRWEB) May 08, 2012 Florida Cardiology, P.A., an eight location practice with 17 cardiologists, has selected the evidence-based practice management … Continue reading
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Tagged a-leading-provider, business-intelligence, eight-location, evidence, florida, florida-cardiology, for-healthcare, has-selected, leading-provider, practice-management, practice-with, prweb, reporting-solutions, selected-the-evidence, the-evidence-based
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Cheney praises cardiology advances
A month after receiving a heart transplant at Inova Fairfax Hospital, a vigorous-looking former vice president Richard B. Cheney told an audience of cardiologists he felt “uniquely blessed” that his 35-year battle with heart disease had so neatly tracked the … Continue reading
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Stephen L. Kopecky, MD, Named President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology
At its recent annual meeting held this year in San Diego, Stephen L. Kopecky, MD was named president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology . The ASPC is a nationaSource:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=cardiology&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
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Preventive cardiology training sorely lacking, study says
Most physicians being trained to specialize in cardiology are not getting nationally recommended training in preventive cardiology, according to a survey of 43 cardiology fellowship program directors and 56 chief cardiology fellows. Only 24% of programs met American College of Cardiology Foundation guidelines, which recommend that fellows receive one month of training dedicated to preventive cardiology. Another 24% had no formal training in preventive cardiology, and 30% had no faculty with expertise on the subject, says the American Journal of Cardiology article published online April 6 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22482864/). Continue reading
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Tagged cardiology, centers, condition, curriculum, detroit-at-the, education, fellow-at-henry, fellow-at-mayo, formal-training, poor-management, survey, the-curriculum, time
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Even at higher genetic heart risk, lifestyle helps
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It's no secret that healthy habits do your heart good. But a new study helps confirm that lifestyle also matters for people who have a genetically increased risk of heart problems. The study, reported in the American Journal of Cardiology, focused on men who had at least one parent who'd had a heart attack before the age of 55. Continue reading
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Tagged a-new-study, also-matters, before-the, before-the-age, heart, heart-attack, helps-confirm, reuters-health, york, your-heart
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MEDNAX Reports 2012 First Quarter EPS of 98 Cents
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD – News), the national medical group specializing in neonatal, maternal-fetal, pediatric cardiology, other pediatric subspecialties and anesthesia physician services, today reported earnings of 98 cents per share for the three months ended March 31, 2012. Continue reading
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Tagged 2012-first, a-durable-and, a-weighted-average, chief-executive, continued, during-the-2012, first-quarter, for-the, national, specialties, the-2012, three, with-the-prior
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Venezuela Hospitals Choose Spacelabs Healthcare
ISSAQUAH, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Under one of the largest contracts ever received by its Latin America and Caribbean distributor, Spacelabs Healthcare will provide multiple Venezuela hospitals with patient monitoring and connectivity, anesthesia delivery, and diagnostic cardiology solutions. Continue reading
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Tagged genius, india, italy, monitoring, president, securities, singapore, venezuela
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Direct Flow Medical® Announces the Appointment of Chief Medical Officer, Charles Davidson, MD
SANTA ROSA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Direct Flow Medical, Inc., a privately held, emerging medical device company focused on the next generation, minimally invasive implant to treat patients with heart valve disease announced the appointment of Charles Davidson, MD, as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Davidson brings a wealth of knowledge to the organization, having spent over 20 years in interventional cardiology and medicine. Continue reading
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Tagged california, care, career, chicago, direct, direct-flow, director, information, medicine, society
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Hearts And Technology: Ongoing Innovations In Cardiology
Lori Turner, 53, was lying on a table in the electrophysiology lab at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, obscured by heavy equipment. Born with a rare, potentially fatal heart condition called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, or WPW, the Mansfield resident was undergoing an operation that would fix the defect and end her periodic bouts of rapid heartbeat and dizziness. Continue reading
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Tagged a-chore-sorting, a-huge-amount, a-huge-industry, a-huge-upside, a-large-glass, a-small-loop-, catheters, companies, haven-hospital, hospital, mansfield, medical, medical-center, patient, work
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CardioFocus HeartLight® EAS Symposium Features Two Years of Clinical Experience at German Society of Cardiology Annual …
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), convened cardiology thought leaders to discuss clinical experiences with its technology and identify areas for continued research during a sponsored symposium at the German Society of Cardiology Annual Meeting in Mannheim, Germany, April 11-14. Presenters highlighted the versatility and durability of endoscopic laser catheter ablation, and addressed topics related to the unique energy delivery mechanism and its applicability in a range of patient anatomies Continue reading
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Tagged a-single-lesion, applicability, endoscopic, german, light-endoscopic, safety, system, technology, unique
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