Survey Shows Variety of Causes for Discrepancies Between Guidelines and Practice The practice of cardiovascular medicine differs from country to country despite commonly accepted management guidelines. Discrepancies persist, even when comparisons are based on investigations of the proportion of patients with a defined disease offered a particular...
READ MOREOvercoming inequality in access to innovative technologies, while ensuring the long term financial sustainability of healthcare systems represents one of the strongest challenges for European governments. Discrepancies in resource allocation are still extant, on both health expenditure on GDP and on per capita spending on medical technology especially...
READ MOREEquitable access to healthcare forms one of the common objectives for EU Member States in the fight against social exclusion and poverty, yet barriers remain in the way of goals for optimum and homogenous access. For medical technologies, these barriers to access can be multi-factorial, yet broadly classified as stemming from the supply or demand...
READ MOREThe United States is the only wealthy industrialised nation without a universal healthcare system, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. It has a mixed system of public and private insurance. Most working age Americans have private health insurance through their employers. Private health insurance covers about...
READ MOREEuro Aspire III Trial Mirrors US Struggle to Empower Patients This article addresses early identification and prevention of cardiovascular disease, to highlight the challenges in motivating patients to participate in their health and well being and focus on motivating insurance companies and national healthcare to empower, enable and encourage...
READ MOREThe American heart association mission is building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. To accomplish this, its volunteers and organisation are involved in an extremely broad range of activities. The activities of the Association systematically attack the problem of cardiovascular disease across the knowledge spectrum...
READ MOREBIOTRONIK’s wireless remote monitoring technology for patients with cardiac devices has been approved in Europe. It identifies patients with the most clinically relevant events to streamline clinic workflow and improve patient care. The traffic-light severity-based display of patients’ status identifies the most important information with one click...
READ MORETeraRecon has announced the release of new innovations in its flagship Aquarius iNtuition™ platform. Showcased in September at the ASNC annual meeting in Boston, this client server aims to improve efficiency within cardiac imaging. The new device is said to improve speed and accuracy in CT technology. It is workflow orientated, “available anywhere”...
READ MOREShands HealthCare at the University of Florida medical centre have installed the Toshiba Aquilion ONE dynamic volume CT. This may change the way hospitals and physicians treat and diagnose patients with cardiovascular and neurological disease. Aquilion ONE can perform single heart beat studies and capture organ perfusion, actions that cannot be performed...
READ MOREThese hybrid surgical rooms will provide optimal imaging during open and minimally invasive cardiovascular surgical procedures in a bid to enhance workflow. The combination of Philips cardiovascular x-ray systems and Steris HD 360 suites technologies and design service aims to create a flexible treatment environment in a single suite. It will in turn...
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