“Containing costs while delivering high-quality, effective care is a directive of healthcare reform,”
accordingto Toshiba (
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To that end, then, Toshiba America Medical Systems is partnering with healthcare providers to develop products to address episode-based care by using “patient-focused imaging technology and a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to treatment.”
The company showcased examples of episode-based care using its imaging technology at this year’s Radiological Society of North America annual meeting in Chicago.
The payment approach reimburses on expected costs for clinically defined episodes, rather than fee-for-service. This aligns with the right imaging partner to deliver episode-based treatment, while also “increasing productivity and revenue,” company officials say, pointing to two examples of Toshiba’s episode-based tools -- acute stroke diagnosis at Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital and pediatric care at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center:
Millard Fillmore uses Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE dynamic volume CT system and Toshiba’s InfinixTM VF-i bi-plane vascular system. One clinical example focuses on a 51-year-old patient with clear signs of stroke who required immediate diagnosis and treatment. By using the Aquilion ONE Neuro Imaging protocol, which combines non-contrast CT, cerebral blood flow analysis and four-dimensional digital subtraction angiography into a single exam, physicians were able to identify an embolism in the middle cerebral artery and obtain the data needed to make a rapid, accurate diagnosis in minutes, rather than hours.
The patient was then taken to the Infinix-i vascular lab where the clot was removed.
In October, TMC’s (
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reported that Toshiba announced compatibility with Google’s Android and RIM’s BlackBerry (
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The uMobility tool is designed to expand mobile unified communications capabilities. UMobility from Varaha Systems (
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Tammy Wolf
