News and Notes

28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago received a kidney from one of his childhood friends and was discharged home less than 24-hours after surgery CHICAGO – June 24, 2024 – For the first time at Northwestern Medicine, surgeons have performed a kidney transplant...

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, one of the nation’s top pediatric health care systems, recently announced the availability of Arc Viewer, a new no-cost 3D model viewing software. Built in-house at the hospital’s Helen and Will Webster Foundation 3D Innovations...

Vizient, Inc., Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC and Madison Dearborn Partners has announced that Vizient has exercised its option to acquire the remaining interest in Kaufman Hall, a strategic advisor to the healthcare industry. Vizient became a minority investor...

ECRI, one of the foremost independent healthcare and patient safety nonprofits, launched a new AI-powered tool – SurgiSmartIQ – that equips healthcare providers with unprecedented insights into primary hip and knee implant utilization, clinical use variation, and...

Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center (HHNM) and GE HealthCare have announced HHNM as the first location in the United States to install GE HealthCare’s latest Allia Image Guided System (IGS) Pulse, which was designed to provide exceptional image...

Documentation is essential to delivering high-quality care but can result in a heavy burden on physicians and serve as a distraction from their patient interactions. Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to reduce the...