Experience Stories

Ramesh Daggubati, MD

Antiplatelet Agents: The Transition that Reduces Cost & Maintains World-class Care

Medicure

Healthcare today is focused on the Triple Aim: Improving patient quality of care and satisfaction, improving outcomes, while also reducing total cost of care.

May 26, 2016
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[ARTICLE] Building a Protected PCI Program: Defining Algorithms, Selecting Patients

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

Good outcomes in revascularizing high-risk, complex PCI patients start with careful patient selection. The secret to success in complete revascularization with Protected PCI involves some art, some science and begins with following proven protocols.

March 17, 2016

Inside the Cath Lab: Tracking Supplies, Cutting Costs

Cardinal Health

Balancing needs, utilization and cost while improving patient care are central to the mission of the interventional cardiology team at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta.

March 4, 2016
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[ARTICLE] Building a Protected PCI Program: The Community Hospital Approach

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

Despite its name, Bakersfield Heart Hospital offers more service lines than just those under its cardiovascular umbrella.

January 7, 2016
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[ARTICLE] Building a Protected PCI Program: The Programmatic Approach

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, already a major national referral center, has recently undergone a significant culture shift. The change began when Robb MacLellan, MD, joined as chief of cardiology of UW Medicine Regional Heart Center in 2011.

November 1, 2015

Advanced Analytics Make Supply Chain Pros of Cath Lab Teams

Cardinal Health

Good Samaritan Hospital in L.A. looks to its managers to preserve that margin by slashing supply costs without compromising clinical quality.

September 22, 2015
Building a Protected PCI Program: The Heart Team Approach

[ARTICLE] Building a Protected PCI Program: The Heart Team Approach

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

High-risk PCI patients have new options at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia with the Impella 2.5, a miniature heart pump for use in elective and urgent high-risk PCI procedures.

September 22, 2015
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The Need for Real-time Skin Dose Tracking

Toshiba

The number of patients' requiring vital interventional procedures has risen sharply in the last decade and will continue to increase with an aging world population.

July 15, 2014