A recent study of peripheral artery disease in the Hispanic population found that Hispanic patients with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) are much more likely to have the condition treated in a hospital emergency department instead of a primary care provider. The study examined 1,018,220 PAD hospitalizations from 2011 to 2017, and Read more…
A study of Medicare claims found that in the 19-month period since Supervised Exercise Therapy (SET) was accepted as a therapy for Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), this therapeutic intervention was underutilized. Published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, this study of CMS claims data from June 1, 2017, and December Read more…
Since 2000, the US adult smoking rate has been on a steady decline, which is good news for the United States overall health and well-being, due to smoking being associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, including Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). However, for Read more…
Amazon made a smart decision to leverage its idle assets in the form of unused computing power by launching Amazon Web Services in 2002. Today, AWS is a $45 billion business. Do you have assets you can leverage to: Improve financial performance Reduce healthcare costs Enhance patient experience Mitigate liability Read more…
Study Links Depression To Higher Rate of Negative PAD Outcomes The results of recent retrospective study published in the <a href=”https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2021.01.025″>Annals of Vascular Surgery</a> found that patients with Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia (CLTI) tended to have worse outcomes if they also had depression. This retrospective study of approximately 3,000 patients Read more…
April is Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month – Request A Media Kit Did you know that April is limb loss and limb difference awareness month? To help further the awareness of limb loss and educate on how to prevent amputations, we are offering a media kit, which is Read more…
March is National Kidney Month – Request A Media Kit March is national kidney month, highlighting awareness of chronic kidney disease, which impacts 1 in 3 with diabetes and 1 in 5 with high blood pressure. To help further the awareness of this chronic condition and its impact on other Read more…
Join us for a webinar session to see how some successful PADnet® champions have operationally integrated PADnet vascular testing into their clinical workflow.During this roundtable-style webinar, we’ll review effective workflows for your practice to accelerate and simplify your use of PADnet. We’ll go over the patient experience before, during and Read more…
Lower Extremity Review magazine published a whitepaper online highlighting a clinical study comparing the diagnostic results of PADnet Xpress with other established, gold-standard technologies used to perform physiologic studies to non-invasively detect peripheral artery disease (PAD). This whitepaper was authored by Sue Duval, PhD and Associate Professor of the University Read more…
