BUSINESS
April 4, 2011 | By Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
Picture this: You're in the hospital, attached to an electrocardiograph machine, and your cardiologist is about to tee off on the 16th hole. A new iPhone app will let the doctor call up your EKG results right there. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is one of several large hospitals nationwide that are rolling out an application allowing cardiologists to view electrocardiograph results via iPhones and iPads. The technology, created by AirStrip Technologies in San Antonio and scheduled for release Monday, allows doctors to remotely analyze a range of EKG data.
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February 26, 2011 | By Claire Noland, Los Angeles Times
Helen B. Landgarten, a Los Angeles artist and pioneering art therapist who established a clinical art therapy program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and graduate departments in art therapy at Immaculate Heart College and Loyola Marymount University, has died. She was 89. Landgarten died Wednesday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after suffering a stroke, Loyola Marymount announced. In the 1970s, Landgarten helped legitimize art therapy, which combines art and counseling, on the West Coast.
BUSINESS
November 28, 2010 | By Duke Helfand
Los Angeles Times The gig : Thomas M. Priselac is president and chief executive of Cedars-Sinai Health System, a sprawling complex in Los Angeles with 11,000 employees, vast research and teaching programs and the largest private, nonprofit medical center in the Western United States. The red carpet: Cedars-Sinai has long been associated with Hollywood. George Burns Road and Gracie Allen Drive run through its middle right past the Steven Spielberg Pediatric Research Center.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 20, 2009 | By Andrew Blankstein and Ching-Ching Ni
Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of actress Brittany Murphy. Police have been dispatched to Cedars-Sinai and to the Los Angeles home where Murphy, 32, went into cardiac arrest earlier today. Police sources emphasized that their inquiry was preliminary, adding they could not say whether it would point to any criminal conduct. [Note: An earlier version of this post incorrectly said the house was located in West Hollywood.] L.A. city firefighters responded to a call from the home in the 1800 block of Rising Glen Road.
BUSINESS
November 29, 2009 | By Jerry Hirsch
The gig: Owner of Rossmoor Pastries, one of the region's largest independent commercial bakeries. It supplies pastries, cakes and other baked goods to large clients, including Disneyland, Staples Center, Angel Stadium, Universal Studios and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Some big projects : Created a gingerbread version of Staples Center that was rolled out to center court during halftime of a Los Angeles Lakers game. Baked a 5-foot-tall birthday cake for pop star Miley Cyrus.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 10, 2009 | Nicole Santa Cruz
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center officials said Monday that 260 patients had been exposed to high doses of radiation during CT brain scans during an 18-month period, up from the hospital's original estimate of 206 in September. A review by the hospital also found that about 20% of the patients received exposure directly to the lenses of their eyes, which puts them at a higher risk for cataracts, said Simi Singer, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles hospital. Of the newly identified cases, 47 patients had died by the time the hospital began contacting victims -- a reflection, officials said, of their serious illnesses, not the radiation exposure.