{"id":10962,"date":"2020-08-05T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:37:43","slug":"remote-pacemaker-tech-used-by-osu-medical-center-to-reduce-or-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/remote-pacemaker-tech-used-by-osu-medical-center-to-reduce-or-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote pacemaker tech used by OSU medical center to reduce OR personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class=\"section no\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-12 have-padding\"><div class=\"text-block \" ><div class=\"simple-text \"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pacemaker technology has been put into effective use by Columbus-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ohio State University<\/a> Wexner Medical Center. The process enables a technician to remotely program the device during a procedure, without his physical presence in the operating room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10964 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy-1-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy-1-768x192.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a report by The Columbus Dispatch, Toshimasa Okabe, MD, a cardiologist at OSU performed the procedure on April 3,\u00a0 implanting a pacemaker that was remotely programmed\u00a0 by a Medtronic technician on a patient. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The technology since then has been used eight times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the technology was approved by FDA in 2015, OSU used the procedure recently in a bid to limit people visiting the OR due to COVID-19. The pacemaker can be programmed wirelessly from anywhere in the U.S, with a Medtronic technician present during the surgery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10963 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy.png 800w, https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dhanunjaya-Lakkireddy-768x192.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, chair of the American College of Cardiology&#8217;s Electrophysiology Council, explained that this was the first example of how modern technology has been leveraged to\u00a0 find alternatives that fulfil patient needs in times of a global pandemic, he attributed the success to the advancement of technology, according to the report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacemaker technology has been put into effective use by Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The process enables a technician to remotely program the device during a procedure, without his physical presence in the operating room.\u00a0 According to a report by The Columbus Dispatch, Toshimasa Okabe, MD, a cardiologist at OSU performed the procedure [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[721,841,717,716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billing-collections","category-medical-billing","category-most-popular","category-most-recent"],"modified_by":"kiruthika","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450450,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions\/450450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}