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Thank you FLOTUS and the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research for recommending urgent improvements in care for women’s health in America and for specifically mentioning the need to address #osteoporosis. Assuring better post-fracture care for the nearly 2 million women and men who suffer fractures every year will save taxpayers $ and save lives. https://lnkd.in/erBFM2m2

On behalf of and IVMatters, we thank the International Society for Clinical Densitometry and its participating clinicians for conducting a wonderful R.T. educational venue this past weekend. As a technical marketer and developer of medical devices, I find listening to clinicians at these venues most enjoyable, enlightening, and informative. Thank you for sharing content on: Diagnosis of Osteoporosis Pediatric DXA from A-Z Review of DXA/Understanding complex scans (Hard DXA Cases) Introduction to Vertebral Fracture Assessment Why and How of Precision Cross Calibration 2023 ISCD Official Positions Basics of Hologic Basics of GE Lunar Looking forward to the April clinical venue. American Society of Radiologic Technologists, Echolight #osteoporosis #bonehealth #REMS

Echolight looks forward to supporting its U.S. commercialization partner JUVENT at the Health and Freedom Summit in downtown Atlanta today through Sunday. https://lnkd.in/enu2cvEr Please stop by the JUVENT Health exhibit to learn how Echolight REMS can support your patient's musculoskeletal health and wellness. Echolight's ECHOs is an FDA-approved bone densitometry platform based on Radiofrequency Echographic Multi-Spectrometry (REMS) ultrasound. ECHOS is a mobile point-of-care platform providing bone densitometry, fracture risk, and body composition diagnostic reporting for your practice.   #integratedmedicine #musculoskeletalhealth #osteoporosis #Atlanta #wellness #bonehealth #REMS Juvent IVMatters Echolight

Echolight looks forward to supporting its U.S. commercialization partner JUVENT Health at the International College of Integrative Medicine 2024 Inflammaging Conference starting this Thursday. Echolight's ECHOs is an FDA-approved bone densitometry platform based on Radiofrequency Echographic Multi-Spectrometry (REMS) ultrasound. ECHOS is a mobile point-of-care platform providing bone densitometry, fracture risk, and body composition diagnostic reporting for your practice.   Please stop by the JUVENT Health exhibit to learn how Echolight REMS can support your patient's musculoskeletal health and wellness.   International College of Integrative Medicine #integratedmedicine #musculoskeletalhealth #osteoporosis #NewOrleans #bonehealth Juvent Echolight IVMatters

An interesting paper out of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. https://bit.ly/3SsHbap The authors conclude that; “A minority of patients with cirrhosis are screened for osteoporosis despite higher rates of abnormal bone density compared to the general population.” Their conclusions are based on a retrospective review of patient histories in a single health system for patients diagnosed with cirrhosis. As a lay reader, a disproportionate mismatch between the prevalence of cirrhosis related osteoporosis and diagnostic bone mineral density testing is evident. It is highlighted that the lack of bone mineral density diagnostics in cirrhosis patients can be attributed to multiple U.S. society guidelines that do not site cirrhosis as a risk factor to necessitate osteoporosis screening. Similarly, primary care providers' awareness of cirrhosis as an osteoporosis risk factor to warrant recommending screening may be low. Additionally, patient compliance for those patients in this population recommended osteoporosis screening appears sub-optimal. Echolight REMS provides an easy-to-use point-of-care ultrasound solution for osteoporosis screening. www.echolightmedical.com Please get in touch with us to learn how we can help you provide REMS bone diagnostics to your patients. #osteoporosis #BMD Echolight IVMatters #hepatology #liverdisease #cirrhosis #nash #gastroenterology #universityofminnesota

As Echolight proceeds on its commercialization journey in support of improving bone health diagnostics in the U.S.A. with REMS (Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry), our market research and discovery efforts revealed that successful deployment of this diagnostic modality to measure bone mineral density and associated fracture risk requires first and foremost that Echolight's U.S. Team can support: 1) Training providers on proper acquisition techniques. & 2) Helping providers effectively communicate REMS results to their patients. In pursuit of this imperative, two days of intensive training on the Echolight Echos platform was conducted at IVMatters offices. Special thanks to U.S. team members Cindy Card BA, RT (R)(M) (ARRT), and Ben Gonzalez for immersing themselves in this training that included extensive live person REMS scanning and embracing all technological details of the platform. Echolight REMS provides an easy-to-use point-of-care ultrasound solution for measuring bone mineral density and fracture risk. www.echolightmedical.com Please get in touch with us to learn how we can help you provide REMS bone diagnostics to your patients in support of optimally managing their musculoskeletal health. #osteoporosis #BMD #womenshealth #REMS #bonehealth Thanks to The Lynne Experience LTD for medical models.

A recently published multi-center study examines the importance of fracture risk communication as it pertains to the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. https://lnkd.in/eVNicZZs The Patients’ Preferences for Fracture Risk Communication: the Risk Communication in Osteoporosis (RICO) study, concludes; “There is a significant communication gap between healthcare professionals and patients when discussing osteoporosis fracture risk.” In my recent conversations with bone health and osteoporosis clinicians, it has become readily evident that successful communication of a patient’s bone health no longer simply relies on absolute physiologic diagnostic bone mineral density measurement quantities, primarily your T & Z scores. These measured values can be communicated to the patient qualitatively in a comparable means to that of a patient’s blood chemistry measurements, i.e. your blood cholesterol (LDL) is low-high, good-bad, normal, etc. Fracture risk on the other hand is a patient’s probability of experiencing a fracture within a given period, typically 5-10 years. Fracture risk patient communication ideally needs to provide a simple means by which patients can best understand the resulting probability distribution they face such that they can make optimal care decisions. The authors conclude that optimal clinician communication of fracture risk is accomplished both with verbal consult and supporting easy-to-understand graphics that can be later referenced by the patient either on hard copy or digitally accessible report. Fracture risk is further confounded in that it can be statistically derived based solely on a patient’s demographics, or by actual measurement of the patient’s bone structure at a ROI. Echolight REMS provides an easy-to-use point-of-care ultrasound solution for measuring bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture risk (FR). www.echolightmedical.com Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry (REMS) being radiation-free utilizes locally applied ultrasound over the femur and lumbar spine. #osteoporosis #BMD #womenshealth IVMatters Echolight International Osteoporosis Foundation Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation