Cardiac Diagnostics

This channel includes news, videos, podcasts and other content on new technology innovations for cardiac diagnostic systems and techniques. This includes laboratory testing, blood tests including troponin testing, electrocardiogram (ECG) systems, point of care testing systems, genetic testing, cardiac patient monitoring devices including wearable sensors, and studies showing new ways to diagnose heart diseases.

News | EP Lab

July 27, 2021 — AliveCor Inc., which offers FDA-cleared, smart-phone enabled personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

July 26, 2021 — Heart disease and stroke continue to kill more people in the U.S. than any other cause, despite, and ...

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News | FFR Technologies

July 26, 2021 – CathWorks announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the ...

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In the past decade there has been a proliferation of clinical-grade wearable monitors and implantable devices such as pacemakers, ICDs, implantable cardiac monitors, and new pacemaker-like devices that can control hypertension. In the near future, these devices will be tied into a body-wide internet of things for specific patients that can transmit patient data to clinicians wirelessly to enable an integrated, more robust form of telecardiology and telemedicine.
Feature | Telecardiology | Victor Wollesen

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death for people over 65 years old in North America and Europe ...

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Videos | Stethoscopes

Nelson B. Schiller, M.D., FACC, professor of medicine and the John J. Sampson and Lucy Stearn Endowed Chair of ...

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News | FFR Technologies

July 15, 2021 — HeartFlow, which has commercialized noninvasive computed tomography derived fractional flow reserve (FFR ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

July 15, 2021 — Using real-time deformability cytometry, researchers at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in ...

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News | Implantable Cardiac Monitor (ICM)

June 13, 2021 — Medtronic announced clinical trial results from the STROKE AF trial demonstrating the superiority of the ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

July 13, 2021 — Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have shown that speckle-tracking strain echocardiograms may ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

July 1, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Angel Medical Systems Inc. second-generation ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Dave Fornell, Editor

June 28, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced June 25 it has added a warning on the Moderna and ...

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A small number of patients develop myocarditis after receiving the messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. This recently raised concerns after numbers for this adverse reaction jumped in April and May, prompting review this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on the Immunization Practices (ACIP).
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | By Dave Fornell, Editor

A small number of patients develop inflammation leading to myocarditis after receiving the messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 ...

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Small Number of Patients Have Myocarditis-like Illness After COVID-19 Vaccination. Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

June 23, 2021 — Findings from a small study detailing the treatment of myocarditis-like symptoms in seven people after ...

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News | Remote Monitoring

June 22, 2021 — It is no secret that the use of telehealth technologies rose dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 ...

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News | ECG

June 18, 2021 — You might be older ― or younger ― than you think. A new study found that differences between a person's ...

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