Filtered By:
Procedure: PET Scan
This page shows you your search results in order of date. This is page number 17.
Order by Relevance | Date
Total 436 results found since Jan 2013.
Intravascular Camera Using Multiple Lasers for Illumination Helps Assess Dangerous Plagues
A collaboration between scientists at University of Washington and University of Michigan has led to the development of a new way of imaging atherosclerosis within blood vessels. The technology relies on delivering a tiny camera into a vessel’s...
Source: Medgadget - February 14, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs
A specter from the implementation and demise of the ACA
Danny rarely came to the clinic. He paid a sliding scale fee for the visit but this, in addition to the money he paid for his medicines, was already too much for him to afford. Now, in early November 2013, he had become concerned.
Danny had previously owned a jewelry boutique with his wife, Jacky. She made her own pieces and sold them in the store. Over time, the economy had turned. They could no longer keep the business afloat and had to close. Over the years, Danny had wrecked his body with a slow burn of alcohol excess, but several years ago he had been able to mount a recovery and prided himself on his revival. His liv...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 11, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/daniel-p-miller" rel="tag" > Daniel P. Miller, DO < /a > Tags: Physician Cancer Hospital Source Type: blogs
Gaming the System
By NIRAN Al-AGBA, MD
As physicians ready themselves for the future of medicine under onerous MACRA regulations, it seems appropriate to glance into the future and visualize the medical utopia anticipated by so many. Value-based care, determined by statistical analysis, is going to replace fee for service.
Six months ago, I received my first set of statistics from a state Medicaid plan and was told my ER utilization numbers were on the higher end compared to most practices in the region. This was perplexing as my patients tend to avoid ER visits at all costs and can be found milling about in my parking lot at 7am o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
ABBOTT ’s Assurity MRI Pacemaker and Tendril MRI Lead Now Labeled by FDA for Use During MR Scans
ABBOTT, having recently purchased St. Jude Medical, is already reaping rewards. The FDA has issued MR-conditional labeling for the Assurity MRI pacemaker and the matching Tendril MRI lead. This makes the Assurity MRI concurrently the smallest pace...
Source: Medgadget - February 7, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Health Care Professionals and Trainees Finally Provoked to Resist - Cleveland Clinic Protest of CEO ' s Acquiescence to Trump ' s Muslim Travel Ban
We frequently discuss theanechoic effect, the failure of cases illustrating problems withconcentration and abuse of power, unethical andcorrupt behavior, and faulty leadership and governance in health care to generate much public discussion, much less outrage. In particular, physicians and other health care professionals seem very reluctant to discuss such cases, perhaps fearing disapproval or retaliation by colleagues or bosses. But they times they are a changin ' .Dr Delos (Toby) Cosgrove had been accused of multiple conflicts of interest the first decade of the century. These charges seemingly generate...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Cleveland Clinic conflicts of interest Donald Trump mission-hostile management Source Type: blogs
CardioInsight ECG Vest for Non-Invasive, Precise Heart Maps
Medtronic landed FDA clearance for its CardioInsight 3D cardiac mapping system that’s used to locate sources of arrhythmias. The system consists of an ECG vest with a whopping 252 electrodes. It’s used to collect highly detailed skin surf...
Source: Medgadget - February 3, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
BIOTRONIK ’s New Personalizable and Energy Efficient CRTs
BIOTRONIK is releasing a new line of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) implants, the Ilivia series, that are designed to improve patient response to the therapy and make it customizable for individual needs. The devices are compatible under MRI...
Source: Medgadget - February 2, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Arterys Cardio DL Application for Cardiac MRI Ventricle Segmentation FDA Cleared
Arterys, a San Francisco firm, won FDA clearance, following recent European CE Mark approval, to introduce its Arterys Cardio DL software that automates the process of segmenting ventricles on cardiac MRI imaging scans. Arterys claims that in a clini...
Source: Medgadget - January 19, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine Radiology Source Type: blogs
IRadimed ’s MRI Compatible MRidium 3860+ IV Infusion Pump FDA Cleared
IRadimed, a company out of Winter Springs, Florida, won FDA clearance for its MRidium 3860+ MRI-compatible IV infusion pump. The device has non-magnetic motor and no ferrous (containing iron) components that would be affected by a magnetic field. It...
Source: Medgadget - December 20, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Exclusive: Eko Core Advanced Digital Stethoscope Now Cleared and Available in Europe
Eko Core, the digital stethoscope from Eko Devices, a Berkeley, CA firm, is now CE Mark cleared for introduction in Europe. We reviewed the Eko Core a few months ago and discovered that it’s much more than a high-fidelity amplified stethoscop...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
The Most Exciting Medical Technologies of 2017
It is almost a tradition for me to publish predictions for the coming year. I do not mean to disappoint you this year either, so here you find some thoughts about the top medical technologies of 2017.
2016 was a rich year for medical technology. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Smart algorithms analysing wearable data. Amazing technologies arrived in our lives and on the market almost every day. And it will not stop in the coming year.
The role of a futurist is certainly not making bold predictions about the future. No such big bet has taken humanity forward. Instead, our job is constantly analysing the trends shaping t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence diabetes GC1 genetics Healthcare Innovation nutrigenomics Personalized medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs
Clarius App-Powered Wireless Ultrasounds Win FDA Clearance
Clarius Mobile Health, a company out of Burnaby, British Columbia, just won FDA clearance for its C3 and L7 Clarius Wireless Ultrasound Scanners. The devices use just about any iOS or Android phone or tablet as the display. A proprietary Clarius app...
Source: Medgadget - December 14, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Ob/Gyn Orthopedic Surgery Radiology Sports Medicine Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Toshiba Unveils Xario 200 Platinum Series Ultrasound
Toshiba is unveiling its new Xario 200 Platinum Series ultrasound system at the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago this week. The system is an upgrade on the popular Xario 200 and is geared toward radiologi...
Source: Medgadget - November 29, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Radiology Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
CT Scans May Replace Invasive Angiographies for Some: Interview with HeartFlow ’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Campbell Rogers
Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed that “software is eating the world,” in the sense that software keeps offering more services that were once delivered by professionals.
HeartFlow, Inc., a startup out Redwood City, CA, has developed software th...
Source: Medgadget - November 28, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Radiology Source Type: blogs
Health Technology And Human Touch Need Not Be At Odds
In the October issue of Health Affairs, Abraham Verghese had a wonderful essay about the practice of medicine entitled “The Importance of Being,” in which he straightforwardly states: “I want to teach the art of being present.” He aptly points out that, as physicians, “we are chained to the [electronic] medical record, and every added keystroke adds another link in the chain.” He calls for us to break that chain. Indeed, the intrusion of health information technology has led to a serious erosion of doctor-patient communication during visits, often with frank dissociation between both. But, as Dr. Verghese point...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric Topol Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Health IT Health Professionals Narrative Matters Physicians physicians perspective Source Type: blogs
