PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 1, 2012 - Panasonic Healthcare Group and CardioNexus Corp. announced today that they'll outfit Methodist Willowbrook Hospital along with Panasonic CardioHealth® Stations to support early heart disease detection. Panasonic's CardioHealth Train station continues to expand its presence among doctors who recognize that one of the best ways to reduce long-term healthcare costs is by implementing technology to detect disease at an initial phase.
The CardioHealth Station is designed to help medical professionals in making a fast and valuable assessment of cardiovascular health and has been cleared from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the automated acquisition of carotid intima-media fullness data and risk assessment. Information about Panasonic Tools and its products is available at http://www.Tools.com/toolbrand/panasonic.html
Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic Corporation of North America provides a broad line of digital and other electronics products and Panasonic tools for consumer, business and industrial use. The company is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC - News), and the hub of Panasonic's U.S. branding, marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic recently announced that it will relocate its North American headquarters to Newark, NJ in 2013 as part of is plans to reduce the size of its carbon emissions footprint.
"With the addition of the Panasonic CardioHealth Stop, our campus is among the most first hospital inside Houston, Texas in order to implement this groundbreaking medical technology," said Beryl Ramsey, CEO regarding Methodist Willowbrook Hospital. "The CardioHealth Station and its particular automated features will empower our physicians to better assess our own patient's cardiovascular risk at an early stage."
The CardioHealth Station has a built-in portable ultrasound program optimized to perform non-invasive tests of the peripheral boats. It provides an automated way of measuring of the intima-media thickness (IMT) associated with peripheral arteries such as the common carotid and enables the user to search for arterial plaques inside B-mode imaging. The touchscreen display keyboard allows the consumer to input various parameters related to conventional cardiovascular risk factors and a built-in calculator provides risk scores (Framingham Risk Rating, PROCAM Health Check Score, Reynolds Risk Score, threat score based on the Report project) commonly used in a number of medical environments. This facts are supplemented with an IMT measurement of the artery to generate a comprehensive report to aid a physician within assessing cardiovascular danger.
"We are pleased to provide Methodist Willowbrook Clinic with the revolutionary technology of the Panasonic CardioHealth Station because they strive to better discover and treat cardiovascular disease," said Steven Lynum, Movie director of Clinical Goods, Panasonic Healthcare Group. "The United states Heart Association as well as the American College regarding Cardiology recently updated the policies for the screening regarding asymptomatic patients with intermediate risk, creating consciousness for the necessity to lessen healthcare costs by means of prevention. Panasonic is happy to continue to play a part in the national effort for the prevention of cardiovascular disease by providing Doctors with important diagnostic Panasonic Tools such as the CardioHealth Station."
