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SEARCH-AF Trial Shows Pharmacists Can Use Pocket ECG to Detect AFib, Stroke Risk

April 18, 2014 — AliveCor announced the online publication of study results of the SEARCH-AF study. The SEARCH-AF study, conducted in Australia, screened 1,000 customers over 65 years old for atrial fibrillation (AF) in 10 community pharmacie...

Calgary Scientific Receives FDA Clearance for Mobile Diagnosis on All Modalities

April 11, 2014 — Calgary Scientific Inc. announced their latest Class II clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Its enterprise image-viewing solution, ResolutionMD, is now cleared for diagnosis on mobile devices for all imagin...

Efforts to Curb Hospital Readmissions Take Center Stage

April 7, 2014 — Strategies aimed at reducing the number of patients with heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions who find themselves back in the hospital after discharge were identified in six new studies presented at the American Colleg...

Congress Passes 12-Month SGR Patch, Delays ICD-10, Requires AUC

The Senate passed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (H.R. 4302) March 31, in a vote of 64 to 35.

SEARCH-AF Trial Shows Pharmacists Can Use Pocket ECG to...

April 18, 2014 — AliveCor announced the online publication of study results of the SEARCH-AF study. The SEARCH-AF study, conducted in Australia, screened...

Understanding and Minimizing Radiation Exposure in the Cath...

The webinar will focus on implementation of different strategies to help clinicians reduce radiation exposure during interventional cardiology procedures, both...

NEC Receives 510(k) Clearance for MD302C4 Diagnostic Review...

April 15, 2014 — NEC Display Solutions of America announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) market clearance of the 30-inch MultiSync ...

Fujifilm Presents Integrated Synapse Portfolio at ACC.14

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. highlighted an integrated Synapse portfolio that allows cardiologists and clinical professionals to enhance patient care...

NEC Display's MD302C4 Diagnostic Review Monitor

NEC Display Solutions of America's 30-inch MultiSync MD302C4 LCD is a widescreen display for diagnostic review applications in

Calgary Scientific's ResolutionMD Cleared for Mobile Diagnosis on All Modalities

Calgary Scientific Inc.'s enterprise image-viewing solution, ResolutionMD, is cleared for diagnosis on mobile devices for all imaging...

Epsilon Imaging Inc. has expanded its EchoInsight automated measurement suite for improved analysis and interpretation in echo. This...

Digisonics DigiView Release 3.8.4. for its Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS) is standards-based and vendor-neutral, combining image...

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SEARCH-AF Trial Shows Pharmacists Can Use Pocket ECG to...

April 18, 2014 — AliveCor announced the online publication of study results of the SEARCH-AF study. The SEARCH-AF study, conducted in Australia, screened...

Challenges and Change Management in Cardiac Technology...

Patients do not have to be the only beneficiaries of technological innovation. Indeed, many technological hardware and software solutions are emerging to help...

Clinical Decision Support For Cardiology and Imaging

Congress recently passed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, which requires use of appropriate use criteria (AUC) and clinical decision support (CDS...

Efforts to Curb Hospital Readmissions Take Center Stage

April 7, 2014 — Strategies aimed at reducing the number of patients with heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions who find themselves back in the...

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Key News and Technology at ACC.14

By Dave Fornell The biggest news item from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 63rd Annual...

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Key Technologies Highlighted as Late-Breakers at ACC.14

By Dave Fornell, DAIC editor Data from several cutting-edge device clinical trials will be...

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Joint Commission Calls for Use of Radiation Dose Monitoring

By Dave Fornell, editor I have watched a trend in medical technology grow from a small ripple a...

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Understanding and Minimizing Radiation Exposure in the Cath Lab

The webinar will focus on implementation of different strategies to help clinicians reduce radiation exposure during interventional cardiology procedures, both for patient and operators. It will...

Webinar: PET/CT — A New Frontier

The webinar "PET/CT: A New Frontier" discusses potential benefits of digital relative to analog PET/CT. The session will discuss how digital PET can improve image quality, lesion detection and...

Webinar: Unify Patient Images and Documents Across the Care Continuum

This webinar reviews multi-ology, multi-site, vendor neutral solutions that transform rigid departmental information silos into fluid, consolidated, information sharing systems. It discusses how to...