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TAVR: Most exciting innovations in heart care

TAVR Heart Procedure Called “Transformative” for Your Aortic Valve

A minimally invasive technique for aortic valve replacement has emerged as one of the most exciting innovations in heart care in decades.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) allows doctors to insert a prosthetic valve inside a damaged valve in the cath lab. It’s a lifesaving option for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), for whom surgery is considered too risky. But it’s not yet ready for everyone.

96% of Consumers Say Mobile Health Industry Improves Life

The mobile health industry has been revolutionizing the way both doctors and patients approach medicine today. When it comes to addressing health issues, mobile health consumers are moving toward preventing disease and increasing fitness and wellness. Through fitness trackers and wearable devices, more patients are now focused on exercise and diet.

The company Research Now conducted a survey that looked at how mobile health applications and the mobile health industry is affecting patient care and physician workflow. Research Now polled a total of 1,000 mHealth app users and 500 medical professionals. The results show that 86 percent of healthcare professionals believe mobile health apps increase their knowledge on a patient’s medical condition.

The payment industry, which includes firms like PayPal and Western Union, had middling average ThreatScores in the first and second quarters of 2014.

The health care industry had the worst security average of every industry surveyed in all four quarters, according to IT security specialist Agari’s TrustScore report.

The TrustIndex provides email "threat" ratings (ThreatScore), or the volume of cyberthreats targeted toward any given company’s consumers via email, and email "trust" ratings (TrustScore), or how well companies are protecting consumers from email cyberthreats.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina has approved and released a total of $2.4 million in funding under the Offce of Insular Affairs Technical Assistance program for fiscal year 2015 to support health, education and social service projects for the U.S. territories and Freely Associated States.

These are the top four predictions we can expect to pan out over the course of this year for Asia.

Prediction 1: Frugal Innovation is the Way Forward, High Tech Does Not Mean High Cost

With the exception of Australia and Japan, both sophisticated mature markets, most other governments are far from introducing regulations that support the use of advanced medical technology products. Additionally, there is a strong pull toward usage of more simplistic frugal products that are easy to use and require less administration and training time.