WakeMed’s app, created for iPhone and Android devices, enables users to find the closest WakeMed facilities and search more than 1,000 physicians, in addition to inputting personal health and insurance information and staying abreast of hospital news.
The WakeMed app is GPS enabled, providing real-time identification of the nearest WakeMed Emergency Department or facility.  Turn-by-turn GPS [...]

WRAL interviewed Dr. Marc Silver with WakeMed Faculty Physicians – Raleigh Cardiology  about the new Revo pacemaker that is MRI compatible.  This is the first pacemaker that is MRI compatible.  Missed it last night, check it out below.
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Pediatric radiologist Dr. Margaret Douglas discussed pediatric radiation exposure with the WRAL Health Team.

Yesterday the Today Show  compared the Chilean miners’ rescue pod to an MRI.  This comparison is one to which many people can relate.
The average MRI has an opening of 23 inches and the rescue pod that successfully brought the 33 trapped miners 2,300 feet to the surface was only 20 inches in diameter.
People with claustrophobia  often struggle [...]

Mary Schilder is director of internal consulting in WakeMed Information Services.
Last week, the North Carolina Hospital Association (NCHA) and The North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) announced that WakeMed and Moses Cone are the initial beta sites to develop and launch the North Carolina Healthcare Information Exchange (NCHEX).  This is an exciting project for every health [...]

Yesterday it was announced that former vice president Dick Cheney received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).  A LVAD is designed to help patients with end-stage congestive heart failure (CHF). 
CHF occurs when the pumping capacity of the heart is diminished to the point where there is insufficient blood flow to the body.  CHF can result [...]

Johnette Crockett is supervisor of CT at WakeMed Cary Hospital.
For patients with crohn’s disease or small bowel disorders and cancers, diagnostic imaging options recently got a lot broader because WakeMed Imaging Services is now offering CT enterography at Raleigh Campus, Cary Hospital, Apex Healthplex and North Healthplex.
CT enterography is ordered by gastroenterologist or surgeon and offers [...]

Denton Arledge is WakeMed Vice President of Information Technology
Every day I see the progress on the new Raleigh Campus Patient Tower. It is amazing how the building and the gardens are coming along. What is not visible from the outside, however, is the technology incorporated throughout the new Patient Tower.
We have added a computer in [...]

Lindsay Kimbrell is a Medical Technologist in the Microbiology Lab
This week marks National Medical Laboratory Professionals week, and we wanted to share the impact that medical lab professionals have in health care every day. 
For most patients, their interaction with the pathology lab is limited to the doctor’s office or the hospital where their blood is [...]

Amar Patel is the manager of the WakeMed Center for Innovative Learning.
You’re sitting in a conference watching yet another PowerPoint presentation when suddenly someone in the room collapses with a cardiac arrest.  This really happened yesterday to attendees at the Triangle Gaming Conference.
During our presentation yesterday Dr. Graham Snyder, medical director of the Center for [...]