As a big boom in cardiovascular information system (CVIS) adoption approaches, vendors are gearing up with new offerings, and cardiology departments slightly ahead of the pack install the systems as would-be pioneers in a new frontier.

Making a commitment to a state-of-the-art project is a major undertaking, but it carries benefits on all fronts. Hospitals that have implemented state-of-the-art cath labs have realized improvements in patient care and efficiency via anytime/anywhere access to images and data.

At the 55th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology this month in Atlanta, look for the latest and greatest in powerful image acquisition for cardiology including 64-slice CT, PET/CT, nuclear cardiology, and MRI.

MRI vendors have continued to ring out more ways to make 1.5 Tesla MRI systems more powerful and precise while setting their sights (and sites, too) on the future inevitable dominance of 3T systems. As one company described it, "Tesla envy" is beginning t

The combination of imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic technology hitting the market for use in the cardiac catheterization lab is improving the detection and intervention of cardiac disease.

UC Irvine School of Medicine, through its division of cardiology, recently announced a joint agreement to collaborate on development of the UCI/Toshiba CT Education and Research Center.

Tired of waiting? Try being a doctor for a change, rather than a patient. If you are a cardiologist waiting for an all-encompassing IT solution that is based on the real-world aspects of your practice and patient flows, well, pull up a chair, it's going to be a while longer.

In studies focusing on the validation of multislice CT systems in cardiac imaging, more than 80 percent of clinical research published to date on cardiac CT has involved Siemens Medical Solutions CT technology, with three 64-slice studies published in pee