Cambridge Memorial Hospital is the first Ontario hospital to use Rho in routine practice
Cambridge, Ontario. Cambridge Memorial Hospital began screening routine X-rays of patients aged 50 and older with Rho, the first hospital in Ontario to adopt opportunistic bone density screening in everyday clinical practice. In its first year on the market, Rho had screened more than 50,000 patients.
Dr. Winnie Lee, the hospital’s Chief of Staff, told CTV that osteoporosis is a silent disease that usually goes undetected until a fracture, and that Rho gives radiologists a way to flag it from X-rays taken for other reasons. Flagged findings go into the radiology report so the patient’s physician can arrange a fracture risk assessment and a DXA.