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When change brings opportunity: How Merge’s cardiology solutions helped Edward-Elmhurst Health provide high-quality, consistent care

Sponsored by Merge, an IBM company

The 2013 merger between Edward Hospital & Health Services and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare created one of the largest health systems in Illinois. As is often the case with this type of amalgamation, executives of the newly named Edward-Elmhurst Health faced numerous integration challenges and had to determine the best way to maximize each organization’s strengths. Thankfully, one thing that required little effort was deciding on a cardiology system.

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CVIS Across the Enterprise: Transforming Reporting & Image Access at Northwestern

Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers

The vision was clear. The experienced heart and vascular team at the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in Chicago needed a cardiovascular information system (CVIS) to stretch across its seven hospitals and 100 ambulatory care centers, physician offices and clinics. 

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More Training, More Outreach, More Business: Pushing Your Interventional Program to the Next Level

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

Tectonic shifts in healthcare delivery demand a broad collective skillset measured out among cardiologists, nurses, cardiology service line directors and practice administrators. Priorities need to focus on training and outreach from clinical, operational and financial perspectives as well as strengthening the heart team. 

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Cardiovascular PET Will Become Mainstream in the Changing World of Value Imaging

Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance

Soon, payers will reward cost-effective, high-quality procedures, while both healthcare providers and patients increasingly will demand efficient, diagnostically accurate nuclear cardiology procedures with low radiation exposure.

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Cardiac PET: When It’s Better, Stronger, Faster

Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, like many hospitals and medical centers across the country, cardiac PET is emerging as the go-to imaging modality for a growing list of clinical scenarios.

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Q&A - Cardiac PET: When It’s the Best Choice for Patients

Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance

Experts recently offered a blueprint to make the choice easier when it comes to using cardiac PET to assess coronary artery disease, myocardial perfusion, viability, and ventricular function.

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From the Ground Up: Building a Better Interventional Program — Strategies for Cardiology Service Line Directors

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

Topping the list of must haves when rolling out a new complex PCI program are a solid mission to offer leading-edge technology, top-down administrative support, physician and nursing leadership, a quest for quality, and a well-oiled team.

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Data-based Evidence Drives Efficient Cath Lab Inventory Management

Cardinal Health

A team looking to increase efficiency in inventory management among VA medical centers has advice for healthcare facilities.