Trends and Technology: Summer 2002

Mary Jane Gore

doi:10.29074/ascls.15.3.192

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Mary Jane Gore

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ONLINE I decided to pay a visit to a commercially sponsored Web site this month. Dade Behring had recently announced that its Chest Pain Perspectives® Internet Site received the Biomedical Marketing Association's 2001 Dx Award of Excellence in the General Website category. Judged by a panel of creative directors and laboratorians from the healthcare community, this award honored the best marketing efforts in 2001 involving a diagnostics-related product or service. The Chest Pain Perspectives Internet Site (www.ChestPainPerspectives.com) is an interactive learning center. It incorporates data and risk stratification protocols that can be utilized with cardiac biomarkers for managing patients who come to hospitals with chest pain.

The site is divided into a general portion with basic (consumer) information and a clinical site with information on chest pain diagnosis and disease management guidelines. Cardiac marker guideline excerpts are available here, issued by the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (along with links to the associations for the respective complete guidelines).