DOTmed December 15, 2023
While clinical guidance in many countries, including the U.S., U.K., and EU, recommends performing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) before other, more invasive procedures to diagnose coronary artery disease, interoperability challenges cause its use to vary among providers worldwide. Philips and its academic and nonacademic partners are seeking to change this with a recently awarded €6.5 million (over $7 million) grant to the company’s public-private consortium, COMBINE-CT.
Earlier this month, the Innovative Health Initiative, an EU public-private partnership that funds health research and innovation, awarded the grant to the Philips consortium to support five multicenter clinical trials for determining and sharing best care practices around the use of CCTA in CAD diagnosis and treatment with providers worldwide, to create a more...