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Access to Cardiovascular Technology Across Europe: The Role of Financing
Overcoming 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...
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Optimising Access to Cardiovascular Technology in Europe:The Case for Device Implantation Rates
Equitable 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...
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Overview of the Healthcare System in the United States: Disparity in Access Continues to Provoke
The 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...
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Motivating Patients to Get Involved in Their Health:
Euro 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...
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Profile of the American Heart Association: Building Healthier Lives
The 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...
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Biotronik Home Monitoring Approved in Europe
BIOTRONIK’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...
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Terarecon Releases New Device
TeraRecon 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”...
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Anticlotting Medicine Lowers Incidence of Heart Attack
New data shows anticlotting medicine Tirofiban (AGGRASTAT®) lowers incidence of heart attack in patients who respond poorly to aspirin or Clopidogrel after elective coronary angioplasty. Dr Marco Valgimigli, Chair of Cardiology, University of Ferrara, Italy and the principal investigator of the study emphasised the significance of the findings as they...
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University of Florida Medical Center Install Toshiba Aquilion One Dynamic Volume CT
Shands 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...
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Philips and Steris Alliance to Provide Hybrid Surgical Rooms
These 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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