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[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.

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Structured Reporting: The Road Map for Better Data, Workflow and Reports

Wolters Kluwer

Creating the structured cardiac cath lab procedure report is the first step to improving patient care and data accuracy, coordinating intraprocedure workflow across the clinical team, making registry reporting seamless, and reducing overall cost of care.

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Cath Lab Inventory Management: Improving the Bottom Line

Cardinal Health

Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are answering the mandate of the Affordable Care Act to cut unnecessary costs. Florida Hospital Cardiovascular Institute in Orlando, a member of the Adventist Health System, is a hyperachiever—having cut more than $5 million thanks to a fully integrated, RFID-based inventory management solution deployed across their 13 interventional labs. If improving inventory management isn’t part of your arsenal for supply chain savings strategy, it’s time to take a closer look. 

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Keeping a Careful Eye on Cath Lab Inventory Management

Cardinal Health

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that health systems eliminate waste and across the country many have responded with innovative ways to cut billions of dollars in unnecessary costs.

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Future of Directional Atherectomy: Debulking Myths, Proving Results

Covidien

It is no secret that peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a multidimensional disease affecting 8 to 12 million Americans—yet only 2 million even know they have it. 

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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.

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Robotics in the Cath Lab: The Time is Now

Corindus

Orlando Regional Medical Center is the first hospital in Florida to utilize the Corindus CorPath System.

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Adding Total Vein Care: Good for Patients, Good for Business

Covidien

A need, a vision, a plan, and a team. That’s how the total vein care program for treatment of CVI started at Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, a private practice of 11 cardiologists in Tyler.