The Saint Barnabas Heart Centers are bringing
new clinical resources and cutting-edge technology to cardiologists
and their patients throughout the state. The more than $10
million imaging integration project launched last year remains
on an aggressive and accelerated schedule with multiple features
already live at several facilities.
The state-of-the-art data management technology
offers a single platform for cath and echo images that are
retrievable from anywhere within our System and ultimately
from physician offices.
Bold initiatives for improving care for
a variety of cardiac diagnoses are also underway. In this
issue you can read about plans for a robotic catheter system
for ablation treatments and heart failure treatment initiatives
that earned recognition from the American Heart Association.
- The first elective angioplasties were performed at Clara
Maass Medical Center and Community Medical Center on May
12 as part of the hospitals’ participation in the
C-PORT-E Study.
- According to the American College of Cardiology and the
American Heart Association, primary PCI is the recommended
treatment for patients with STEMI, if it can be performed
within the appropriate time frame. To date in 2009, Newark
Beth Israel Medical Center has achieved D2B time under
90 minutes 100 percent of the time, with a median time
of 46 minutes.
(CMMC), Belleville
(CMC), Toms River
(KMC), Lakewood
(MMC), Long Branch
(NBIMC), Newark
(SBMC), Livingston
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