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Radiologists Receive the Most Inbound Referrals of Any Specialist
Referrals are a main facet of medicine ’s ecosystem. Amino, a platform that synthesizes data from insurance companies to create a transparent healthcare marketplace, wanted to get a full perspective of how referrals work. So they evaluated211 millioninter-specialty referrals from 2016 to determine the top 50 most common referrals. They found that radiologists received more inbound referrals than any other specialist.Amino ’s data team discovered that internists, family practitioners, emergency medicine, pediatricians, and OB/GYNs made the most outbound referrals, and family practitioners and ER physicians had the highe...
Source: radRounds - June 24, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

2017 European Heart Rhythm Meeting Update
I attended the European Heart Rhythm Association meeting last week in Vienna. Here is an update on the stories I found most interesting–the ones I wrote about on the heart.org | Medscape Cardiology. Brain Lesions after AF ablation:  Electrophysiologists do not talk much about the small brain lesions that appear after procedures in the left atrium. MRI brain scans done before and after procedures such as AF ablation reveal the presence of “white sports” in a not insignificant number of patients. These lesions usually do not cause symptoms and mostly resolve over time. The cause of the brain lesions is not...
Source: Dr John M - June 24, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs

A Primer For Conservatives: Health Insurance is not Really Insurance
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD Is health insurance a plan to help healthy people mitigate against an unexpected illness, or an income subsidy to help the sick pay for medical care? Conservatives ought to have a clear answer to that question. Not long ago Congressman Morris Brooks from Alabama did not and found himself on the receiving end of liberal ridicule. By suggesting that those who take better care of themselves should pay lower health insurance premiums, Brooks implied that health insurance is indeed a type of insurance arrangement. After all, the risk adjustment of premiums is a practice proper to all other kinds of insurance...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

FDA Clears MAGNETOM Vida 3 Tesla MRI with BioMatrix Technology
Siemens is reporting that the FDA has cleared its MAGNETOM Vida 3 Tesla MRI scanner. The device features the new BioMatrix technology from Siemens that takes into account individual patient anatomy, physiology, and even the differences in MRI opera...
Source: Medgadget - June 16, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Emergency Medicine ENT Neurosurgery Radiology Source Type: blogs

BIOTRONIK ’s Pacemakers Get 3 Tesla MR-Conditional Approval in Europe
BIOTRONIK won European regulatory approval allowing its Edora, Evity, and Enitra series of pacemakers to be safe for 3 Tesla full body scans, as long as certain precautionary measures are taken. This approval will allow more patients to take advantag...
Source: Medgadget - June 14, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs

BIOTRONIK Releases in U.S. Its Compact Edora Line of MR Conditional Pacemakers
BIOTRONIK is releasing in the U.S. its Edora line of pacemakers that come with the firm’s MRI AutoDetect technology. MRI AutoDetect, which makes the Edora SR-T the smallest MR conditional device on the market, is a setting that is enabled by a ...
Source: Medgadget - June 9, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs

BioSig ’s Pure EP System Detects Deadly Cardiac Arrhythmia Cells (Interview)
BioSig Technologies, a company out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, touts its PURE EP technology as superior electrophysiology (EP) signal recording and processing system compared to conventional devices, and is positioned to shake-up the EP market when ...
Source: Medgadget - June 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 061 with Craig Wylie of BadEM
Discussions in Emergency Medicine”. Sounds good. Is Good! It is conspicuous for the multiple different professionals that contribute; when I spoke to Craig BadEM had 3 paramedics, one medical student and one doctor. (That was Kat Evans; see Jellybean 044) Since then they have added another emergency physician with a strong cardiology interest and an paediatrician. This is a multi-disciplinary game after all. Emergency Medicine is a different beast in different countries and in South Africa it is a quite an impressive beast indeed. A big beast. With big teeth!. It is the trauma that we all hear about but the resources, t...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean BADEM Craig Wylie Paramedic Source Type: blogs

Winning the Doctor Lottery
By ANISH KOKA, MD A poignant piece recently appeared in the journal Health Affairs and was rapidly devoured on social media by the health policy community. The story is a harrowing first person account of a woman’s multiple interactions with doctors. The doctors in the story are either very good or very bad. One pediatrician turns the author and her sick son away on three consecutive days with colic, only to have a more careful partner sound the alarm and discover pyloric stenosis. The author then recounts the tale of her father’s death at age 42 due to a surgeon who operated for diverticulitis unnecessarily. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Functional CT coronary Angiogram :Live coronary traffic Info on the go !
Technology is a great equalizer.Never in my dreams, I would  have thought as I drive through the dense Nilgiris forest , a satellite  located 36000 Km up in the sky would guide  me through  every turn and bend most accurately. The curvy roads are coded with  live traffic  flow in Red ,orange & green . That’s “Google map”  for you. (By the way, proud to note Google runs with an Indian CEO who hails from my city Chennai !) Now , coming to academics , . .Some one thought,  if the traffic in the entire globe can be monitored with few clicks,  How about  adding live traffic data to the other...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - May 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Interview with Rupa Basu, BIOTRONIK ’s Senior VP of Marketing, Corporate Accounts and Strategy
Millions of people experience heart rhythm disturbances in their lifetime. This has propelled cardiac electrophysiology to become one of the most innovative fields in medicine today. BIOTRONIK, a privately owned, global company with headquarters in ...
Source: Medgadget - May 24, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Kenan Raddawi Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Source Type: blogs

BIOTRONIK ’s MultiPole Pacing for CRT Defibrillators Now Approved in U.S.
BIOTRONIK won FDA approval for its MultiPole Pacing (MPP) technology to be introduced in the U.S. on its CRT defibrillators (CRT-Ds). It’s designed to address the fact that the hearts of many patients on cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT...
Source: Medgadget - May 11, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Out of hospital cardiac arrest
(OHCA) is a catastrophic event, which is equivalent to demise unless prompt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and follow up care are available. Majority of the cardiac arrests occur at home (80%) and some of them at public places (20%). Only one fifth of them are in a shockable rhythm when the emergency medical services (EMS) arrive. There is a 10% decrease in survival on each passing minute after cardiac arrest. Bystander initiated CPR improves the chance of survival as it buys time till the arrival of EMS. The chance of receiving bystander CPR varies widely between countries and locations, with 43% in certain countrie...
Source: Cardiophile MD - May 9, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology AED automatic external defibrillator Bystander CPR bystander initiated CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation Chain of Survival OCT OHCA Optical coherence tomography PCI Percutaneous coronary intervention public acces Source Type: blogs

The Future of Predicting Heart Disease May Be In Your Genes
Three cases first: A young woman I met recently (outside the hospital) told me her Dad died suddenly a couple of years ago. He was fine, then he was stone cold dead. The wife went outside for a minute and came back to find her husband dead in the chair. There were no warnings. No chest pains, no breathing problems, and no real diseases, except well-controlled high blood pressure. A middle-aged man came to see me in the office because his brother died suddenly while jogging. The patient wanted to know his risk of heart disease and what he could do to prevent premature death. Both my patient and his dead brother were in dece...
Source: Dr John M - May 5, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs