The Swedish imaging IT and cybersecurity company best known as a highly rated PACS supplier has retooled its enterprise imaging platform to incorporate genomics data.
Six radiologists interpreting around 500 chest radiographs with an assist from AI bested unaided radiologists in measures of efficiency and/or accuracy in a new comparative performance study.
Experts involved in the study suggest that their findings could help explain the neuropsychiatric effects seen in many patients who are prescribed steroids long-term.
A live demonstration of Affera's technology by specialists Vivek Reddy, MD, and Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD. Footage courtesy of Affera/Medtronic.
Affera’s portfolio includes interventional solutions such as the Affera Prism-1 mapping and navigation platform, designed to help electrophysiologists diagnose heart rhythm issues, and the Sphere-9 cardiac ablation catheter.
An Evolut TAVR valve from Medtronic (left) and a Sapien 3 TAVR valve from Edwards Lifesciences (right).
The standard-of-care thinking on TAVR has shifted from getting a valve implanted and managing immediate complications to looking decades down the road and considering the patient's long-term health.
Christine Albert, MD, MPH. Image courtesy of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
New research, published in JAMA Cardiology, challenges the common belief that AFib is more likely to develop among men than women. The key problem, it seems, is that prior research teams did not understand the significance of certain risk factors.
