Innovation
In August, two cardiologists with Albuquerque鈥檚 Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center performed the state鈥檚 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鈥
Health leaders are reinventing the nature of care delivery by adopting technology and AI to lessen health care workforce burnout and meet care needs.
When Daniel Eagle was told he had early-stage prostate cancer, the oncology care team at Loma Linda University Medical Center鈥揗urrieta 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 鈥淢oose.鈥
At LMH Health in Kansas, a new program is being used to supplement the initial assessment of a patient鈥檚 illness or injury after they鈥檙e examined by a human triage nurse.
Abington Hospital, a member of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, has piloted a program that pairs bedside nurses with a 鈥渧irtual nurse鈥 who assists with routine administrative tasks, including discharge and answering patients鈥 questions.