Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital welcomes fellowship trained electrophysiologist Fahad Ali, M.D.

Dr. Ali earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree with honors and gained unique experience by practicing medicine in different parts of the world including Asia, Europe and USA. After completing his internal medicine residency, Dr. Ali completed fellowship in cardio-vascular medicine at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania and completed advanced fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at University of Maryland.
 
 


St. Mary’s Medical Center & Palm Beach Children’s Hospital hosted the first Immertec Medoptic technology virtual event for in service surgical training featuring Dr. John Asghar, orthopedic spine surgeon on staff at the Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute. It is the only fully immersive 3-D, virtual technology surgical training platform, allowing surgeons to virtually scrub into a live procedure in a safe and socially distant way from their home or office through a VR headset.

With this technology, surgical instructors are able to provide more accessible training opportunities for practicing surgeons interested in gaining exposure to innovative techniques, procedures or devices. Trainees can follow the surgeon’s instructors for upcoming learning opportunities. This device allows surgeons to gain exposure to advanced surgical techniques for consideration in their current practice. This exposure has the potential to minimize unnecessary suffering in their patient population from increased access to the highest standard of care.
 
Medoptic has three features: the core 3D teleconferencing technology, the mobile scheduling app and VR headsets loaned to trainees prior to the event. The platform streams live 3D, 4K video with audio conferencing for collaboration and communication in real-time. The technology captures multiple video feeds including a stereoscopic 3D video, encodes the feeds, and remotely transmits the videos to a VR headset in under 200 milliseconds so remote surgeons can observe, communicate and interact as if they were physically present.  
 


Conviva Care Centers, a network of 300 primary care physicians that specializes in treating seniors, and specialized kidney care company Strive Health announced they are partnering to offer specialized kidney disease care management services for eligible patients in South Florida.

Strive Health and Conviva Care Centers will integrate technology and clinical infrastructure to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Strive Health’s care teams will work with Conviva’s primary care physicians, providing care expertise for late-stage CKD and ESRD patients.
 
“Partnering with Strive Health will enable us to provide additional critical health services to our patients,” said President of Conviva Physicians Group Steve Lee, M.D. “At Conviva, we measure our success by the long-term health of our patients, and we believe working together with Strive Health’s clinicians will help us advance the preventive, personalized health care we offer our patients.”
 
Together, Strive Health’s clinical teams and Conviva’s primary care physicians will provide care management services to patients, aiming to reduce hospitalizations and dialysis crash rates, increase home dialysis utilization, detect kidney disease earlier and connect patients to nephrologists and other specialists where and when it’s most important.
 
“Strive delivers comprehensive and compassionate kidney care,” said Chris Riopelle, Chief Executive Officer of Strive Health. “By combining Strive’s specialized care model with Conviva’s innovative primary care physicians, we can develop a comprehensive and integrated system that transforms patient health outcomes and experience.”


Delray Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center are now certified from an additional agency for its comprehensive stroke programs. DNV GL-Healthcare awarded the new certification to both Delray Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center for their comprehensive stroke care, a prestigious designation reflecting the highest level of competence for treatment of patients who have experienced a stroke. The Palm Beach Health Network is the only hospital system in Palm Beach County with two comprehensive stroke centers, and both are designated with this certification.

 


Delray Medical Center is now offering some of the latest technology in PET/CT imaging for patients with the addition of the GE Discovery IQ PET/CT. It offers up to two times more improvement in both image quality and quantitation accuracy. PET/CT combines the power of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) allowing for a more accurate diagnosis than each exam can provide on its own.

PET/CT is a powerful tool that physicians use to determine whether a patient has cancer before it even shows up on other imaging exams.
 
“Technology such as the GE Discovery IQ PET/CT allows us to offer the latest in advanced diagnostic imaging to provide the most accurate diagnosis and help our oncologists make the best treatment decisions for patients,”said Dr. Stephen Leighton, medical director of radiology at Delray Medical Center. “These advanced imaging services we are now providing to the community give patients access to the most accurate and fastest information possible so they can be treated appropriately.”
 
A physician may order PET scan to inspect patient’s blood flow, oxygen intake, or the metabolism of the organs and tissues. PET scans show problems at the cellular level, giving the doctor the best view of complex systemic diseases.