Althougha study in the Jan. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine touts the cost and life-saving benefits associated with hospital healthcare IT adoption, lead investigator Ruben Amarasingham, MD, said thathealthcare ITshould always be accompanied with a strategic, collaborative deployment plan to achieve a successful outcome.

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City have used FDG PET to better understand the relationship between atherosclerotic plaque inflammation, calcification, serum biomarkers and vascular risk factors.

Using multidetector CT, researchers have quantified that atrial fibrillation (a-fib) patients have a higher prevalence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD).

Stents can be placed in the brain to treat a stroke as it is occurring, suggests preliminary data presented at the 21st annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) this week in Hollywood, Fla.

Emageon, a provider of enterprise medical information technology systems for hospitals and healthcare networks, has been awarded a five-year HeartSuite Vericis cardiology contract with MultiCare Health System, a healthcare organization made up of four hospitals in the Greater Tacoma, Washington area.

Loudoun Cardiovascular Specialists in Lansdowne, Va., has selected Digisonics to provide the cardiovascular image management and reporting platform for its facility.

Last September, nearly 1,000 peoplemost of them cardiologiststook the first-ever board exam for cardiovascular CT and nearly 80 percent of applicants passed. One can only surmise that cardiovascular CT is here to stay.

Novadaq Technologies has entered into a multi-year technology alliance with Intuitive Surgical to integrate Novadaq's SPY imaging technology into the 3D high-definition imaging capabilities of Intuitive's da Vinci Surgical Robotic Systems.