Article: Premier Healthcare Alliance Introduces Program to Better Align Hospitals and Physicians to Improve Quality and Patient Outcomes, Control Costs and Increase Profitability.

Article: Mercy Iowa City's Cath Lab Improves Performance by ...
Business Wire;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... N.C. -- By participating in the Premier healthcare alliance's Sixth Annual Collaborative ... save more than $240,000 per year in cath lab supply expenses. For an organization ... range of medical services. When the cath lab team was first approached by senior ...

Article: Cue the Cath Lab.(Cardiac Care Resource ...
EMS Magazine;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Cue the Cath Lab By Liz Delano, EMT-P, MS, Joe LaHood ... Institute (CMHVI) at CMMC, activating the cath lab from the field became possible. The debate ... would allow paramedics to activate the cath lab based solely on their diagnoses of STEMIs ...

Article: OUTPATIENT CATH LAB WILL REOPEN
Evansville Courier & Press;  November 17, 2004 ;     665 words ... ... Group are also planning a second joint cath lab at the new Deaconess Gateway Hospital ... Warrick County in December 2005. The cath lab at Deaconess Heart Center is in the same ... procedures that will be done in the outpatient cath lab. Cardiac catheterization is a heart procedure ...

Article: Improving patient flow in the cath lab: learn how ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... and length of their days spent in the cath lab, while hospital administrators often ... approach to solving these challenges in its cath lab. Kennestone Hospital's approach combined ... smoothed the flow of patients through the cath lab even as the volume of patients increased ...

Article: Philips streamlines cath lab care and management ...
Business Wire;  October 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... to Philips integrated catheterization (cath) lab, which includes physiomonitoring, reporting ... demonstrations. Using 3D CT images in the cath lab, Philips CT TrueView can improve and ... options allow for a more tightly integrated cath lab, which reduces the risk for errors ...

Article: Latest IMV Market Report Shows Continued Investment in ...
Business Wire;  January 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... cases were performed at 1,970 cardiac cath lab sites in 2006. This represents a 9 ... annualized rate of 2% per year. Of these cath lab cases, 89% (3.74 million) are cardiac ... faster pace, with new technology advancing cath lab capabilities," observed Lorna Young ...

Article: Latest IMV Market Report on U.S. Cath Lab ...
Business Wire;  April 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... to 2001, to 3.84 million. Of these cath lab cases, 91% are cardiac-related with ... to electronically store and use their cath lab images digitally. As of 2002, 85% of ... availability of digital archiving within the cath lab has set the stage for the integration ...