Leveraging Technology

A complicated, rare and difficult-to-perform heart surgery first pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.
Recent partnerships that the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Sutter Health, respectively, have formed with GE HealthCare have the potential to drive innovation, reduce costs and improve processes.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has launched an innovative emergency department blood kiosk, significantly enhancing patient care by providing immediate access to life-saving blood transfusions.
Health care executives continue to reimagine and reshape their organizations. Their ideas were developing in real time during last week’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, with artificial intelligence (AI) applications underpinning many of the new and expanding alliances.
In late 2024, Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., treated its first patient with pulsed-field ablation (PFA), a new technology that delivers pulsed electric fields to tissue to manage AFib.
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., is aiming to catch cancer earlier through their use of Intuitive Ion™ Robotic Bronchoscopy technology.
Twelve years after losing her husband David to lung cancer, Bev Brookshire faced her own health scare. When she began to experience shortness of breath and wheezing, a CT scan at Washington state-based MultiCare revealed a nodule on her lung.