The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has launched the Pinnacle Network, as part of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry.

Research presented at the 2009 meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in San Diego this week found that some colonoscopy technologies fare better than others at improving detection of adenomas.

Participation in the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines quality improvement program improves hospitals' adherence to evidence-based therapies and reduces gender- and age-related disparities in the care of coronary artery disease patients, according to research reported Oct. 27 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes.

NovaRad has released upgrades--including new management reports and updated hard and soft block appointment scheduling--to the firm's NovaRIS/NovaPACS 7.2.

Written by Jim YanciMyriad national healthcare market forces are impacting hospitals, physicians and patients across the U.S., including decreasing physician supply, reimbursement challenges, an increase in governmental regulations, pay-for-performance initiatives and a rise in the amount of uninsured patients. While these forces are uncontrollable, they result in varying pressures to physicians and hospitals as both seek to provide increased quality of patient care.

NovaRad has delivered its RIS/PACS product to two clinics in Arizona--Advanced Cardiac Specialists in Mesa and El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson--which will add to the firm's current customer roster of 28 in-state facilities.

As 20th Century Swedish diplomat and author Dag Hammarskjld suggests, an appropriate fixed point can serve as a guide, and maybe a goal, toward which to direct our actions. And interventional cardiology gains HORIZONS[-AMI] of its own in which to provide the appropriate course of care for cath lab procedures through the ever-burgeoning plethora of randomized, prospective trials.

After two decades of improvement, the percentage of Americans without major heart disease risk factors is dropping, according to a review in the September issue of Circulation.