Time is muscle. This common phrase is well-known to healthcare providers in the ED who have been called upon to treat a heart attack. The longer you take to stabilize the heart, the higher the risk of long-term damage to the patient’s heart. "Time is muscle” was the impetus for the new $6 million cardiovascular suite at...
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Artificial intelligence is evolving healthcare in innumerable ways. Though the public at large currently pictures consumer-focused tools like ChatGPT and the Dall-E image generator when they think of AI, a myriad of AI-based applications are being implemented in the background of healthcare systems around the country,...
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You care about your patients. But who cares for you? As ultrasound technology progresses each year, one thing innovators increasingly turn their attention to is reducing strain on the sonographer. Things like cordless transducers, AI-enhanced sequencing and one-push controls have all been designed to improve the patient...
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The ACUSON Bonsai ultrasound system from Siemens Healthineers was recently featured on the TODAY Show in celebration of American Heart Month. As part of a new segment called “Heart Smart Today,” Dr. Mehmet Oz of “The Dr. Oz Show” met with TODAY co-anchors Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Al Roker and Craig Melvin to talk about...
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Manual ultrasound is so 2015. For decades, conducting an ultrasound required a willingness to engage in the same processes over and over again. Any sonographer reading this probably has fingertips that reflexively know the exact keystrokes required to capture an image and move on to the next mode or portion of the study.
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