Innovation

Improving response to sepsis, reducing emergency department (ED) visits, standardizing communication in the operating room (OR) and streamlining patient alerts were among the winners of the 2023 VHA Shark Tank Competition at last week’s annual VHA Innovation Experience in Washington, DC.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles are beginning to tackle atrial fibrillation (AFib) with an algorithm they developed to detect abnormal heart rhythm in symptomless people.
In August, two cardiologists with Albuquerque’s Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center performed the state’s first PASCAL Precision implant procedure for patients with mitral regurgitation.
This summer, UC Davis Health in Sacramento expanded the services of their UC Davis Transplant Center to include liver transplants.
Havana, born with a potentially fatal heart valve deformity, was given a chance to thrive thanks to doctors at the Children's Hospital Colorado Heart Institute.
Amid the sound bites and substance delivered at the recent HLTH conference, health care leaders, transformers and innovators shared how they plan to reshape care delivery, partner to drive innovation and help consumers get greater access to obesity and diabetes medications along with a greater…
When Daniel Eagle was told he had early-stage prostate cancer, the oncology care team at Loma Linda University Medical Center–Murrieta was ready to provide the personalized care he needed.
You can call it the da Vinci XI robotic-assisted surgical system. Or, as its surgical team fans do, you can call it “Moose.”