March 6, 2012 — Vascular Magnetics announced it has raised $7 million to advance development of a drug delivery system using magnetically targeted nanoparticles to treat peripheral artery disease...
March 6, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced the launch of the CapSure Sense MRI SureScan pacing leads, which are approved for use during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and the receipt of the CE...
March 6, 2012 — TeraRecon announced the release of version 4.4.7 of its iNtuition enterprise advanced visualization image management solution, with enhanced support for interoperability and...
March 5, 2012 — SynCardia Systems Inc., manufacturer of the world’s first and only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada and Conformité Européenne (CE) approved Total Artificial...
March 5, 2012 — Emerge Clinical Solutions announced its strategic relationship with MedAxiom, a comprehensive subscription-based service provider and information resource exclusively for...
March 5, 2012 — Baxter International Inc. announced that it initiated a phase III pivotal clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adult autologous (individual’s own) CD34+ stem cells...
March 1, 2012 — Cell>Point announced it entered into a licensing agreement for South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines with Hyun Imc Co. Ltd., headquartered in Seoul, South...
March 1, 2012 — Philips announced the launch of HeartStart XL+, a crash cart defibrillator/monitor for use in hospitals and other health care facilities that, in AED mode, can defibrillate any...
March 1, 2012 – Steris Corp. announced they will collaborate with device manufacturer St. Jude Medical Inc. on the planning and implementation of advanced cardiac laboratories for healthcare...
February 29, 2012 — Vessix Vascular Inc. announced initial patient treatments in the international multi-center Reduce-HTN renal denervation clinical study for uncontrolled hypertension.
February 29, 2012 — Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. announced a strategic distribution arrangement for its Definity cardiac ultrasound contrast agent in the People’s Republic of China, including...
February 28, 2012 — Janssen Research and Development LLC announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has assigned a priority review designation to the supplemental new drug...
February 28, 2012 — AccessClosure Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and U.S. launch of the MynxGrip Vascular Closure Device (VCD). Built on the Mynx platform, the...
February 28, 2012 — nContact Inc. announced a new preclinical study examining a unique minimally invasive percutaneous approach to accessing the heart that may enable electrophysiologists (EPs) to...
University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU) researchers have uncovered a genetic factor that controls arrhythmias, the primary cause of...
February 28, 2012 — Cambridge Consultants will demonstrate new Bluetooth low energy (BLE) iPhone 4S applications using CSR’s BLE devices at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Jarvik Heart Inc. announced conditional U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its pivotal trial for evaluation of the Jarvik 2000 heart for destination therapy (DT). Use of the...
Boston Scientific Corp. announces the first implants of a Teligen implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in China. The implants were performed by Farong Shen, M.D., in Zhejiang Hospital,...
Avinger Inc. announced the enrollment of the first European patient in the CONNECT II global clinical trial. The first patient was enrolled by Dr. Bernhard Reimers at Ospedale di Mirano in Mirano...
Subject to its devices receiving necessary U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals, Boston Scientific Corp. will have the capability to transmit implantable cardiac device data to...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the next steps for providers who are using electronic health record (EHR) technology and receiving incentive payments from Medicare...
February 24, 2012 — Hospital readmissions continue to be a challenge nationwide. It has been estimated that chronic diseases such as asthma, congestive heart failure (CHF) and diabetes account for...
February 24, 2012 — TeraRecon Inc. highlighted the capability of its flagship iNtuition enterprise image management solution to image-enable the electronic medical record (EMR) at the annual...
February 24, 2012 — A new imaging efficiency measure developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce computed tomography (CT) scans in emergency departments does not...
February 24, 2012 — 3-D Surgical Solutions LLC and Wheaton Franciscan-The Wisconsin Heart Hospital Campus announced that the first case ever using the Leonardo 3-D vision system was successfully...
February 24, 2012 — CardioInsight Technologies Inc. announced that it has successfully completed the European commercial introduction of its ECVUE system to aid in the diagnosis of cardiac...
February 24, 2012 — A new report released today by HealthGrades found that from 2008 to 2010, emergency admissions for heart attack decreased slightly (1.7 percent) for Medicare patients, but...
February 24, 2012 — Positron Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Manhattan Isotope Technology LLC (MIT), announced it had received its first shipment of strontium-82 (Sr-82) from the...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released its proposed rule regarding Stage 2 meaningful use (MU) of electronic medical records (EMRs). The Office of the National...
February 24, 2012 — CardioFocus Inc., developer of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), announced the first patient has been enrolled and...
February 24, 2012 — Simbionix USA Corp. announced that it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for the endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) application for the PROcedure...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the first coronary stent indication for use in patients experiencing an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or heart attack. The Boston...
February 24, 2012 — For the first time in years, information technology (IT) leaders at healthcare organizations did not identify a lack of financial support for IT as an obstacle to...
Computed tomography (CT) and advanced visualization software has allowed researchers to vitually unwrap a 2000-year-old mummy at the National Museums Scotland. Together with a team of radiologists...
February 23, 2012 – According to a new survey issued by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the majority of Americans are unaware of two serious and potentially life-threatening heart rhythm disorders...
February 23, 2012 — AstraZeneca announced that the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) has updated its guidelines on Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis to include a...
Teleflex Inc. announced a new agreement with HealthTrust Purchasing Group L.P. (HealthTrust), for its Arrow Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump and Catheter products. The new agreement begins March 1, 2012...
February 23, 2012 — At the European Congress of Radiology taking place March 1-5, Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. and K&S Röntgenwerk will exhibit together for the first time at the...
February 22, 2012 — Attendees at the HIMSS 2012 meeting in Las Vegas were given a preview of what will be in the expected proposed rules for Stage 2 meaningful use, certification and standards...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the number of hospitals using health information technology (IT) has more than doubled in the last two...
February 22, 2012 — HeartWare International Inc. announced that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel will review the premarket approval (PMA) application for...
February 22, 2012 — Cardiologists are expecting to use fewer imaging modalities per patient case in the future, according to a new report released by market research firm IMV Medical Information...
February 21, 2012 — Circadence, a provider of WAN and network optimization solutions for healthcare, announced a set of solutions for optimizing electronic content delivery to iOS, Android and...
As modern multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) becomes a primary imaging modality across all specialties, there has been increased focus on lowering the radiation dose required to create...
A comparison of HIMSS Analytics data from September 2011 to December 2011 suggests that a number of hospital segments showed increased capability to achieve Stage 1 of meaningful use.
February 20, 2012 — ReCor Medical announced that its Paradise percutaneous ultrasound renal denervation system for achieving rhas received the CE mark. Paradise is designed to treat patients with...
February 20, 2012 — U.S. Senate and House legislators have reached a “doc fix” agreement this week to prevent slashing payments to physicians treating Medicare patients. A law was to take effect...
February 20, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that it received CE mark in Europe for its Edwards Intuity valve system for use in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (...
February 20, 2012 — BG Medicine, Inc. announced positive results from its pivotal validation study for the CardioSCORE diagnostic test, previously known by the development name AMIPredict.
February 20, 2012 — Biopharmaceutical company Celladon Corp. this week completed a $43 million equity financing to advance its lead investigational drug candidate Mydicar for the treatment of...
February 20, 2012 — As part of president Obama’s pledge to reduce regulatory burden, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced HHS will postpone the date at which...
As catheter-based, minimally invasive procedures expand rapidly beyond treatment of the coronary arteries into all areas of the human anatomy, angiography X-ray imaging systems have moved beyond...
February 16, 2012 — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance for AngioDynamics NeverTouch Direct procedure kit for use with the company’s VenaCure EVLT laser vein ablation...
February 16, 2012 — A partnership between the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and GE Healthcare used technological innovations in the field to bring cardiovascular ultrasound to an...
February 16, 2012 — Few hospitals have as much experience with the Berlin Heart pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD) as DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan. This is why the U.S. Food and Drug...
February 16, 2012 — Siemens Healthcare received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for syngo Aortic ValveGuide, an integrated image processing software that helps...
February 16, 2012 — Velomedix Inc., a clinical stage medical device company, announced it has received investigational device exemption (IDE) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (...
February 16, 2012 — Aptus Endosystems, a company developing advanced technology for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), announced the start of ANCHOR; a global, multicenter, prospective post-...
February 15, 2012 — Vessix Vascular Inc., developer of a novel percutaneous radiofrequency (RF) balloon catheter technology, announced that it will make its first detailed public presentation of...
February 15, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced the start of two clinical initiatives evaluating the broader, real-world clinical use of the company’s Symplicity renal denervation system across...
February 14, 2012 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) called on Congress to reject what would be the eighth cut to Medicare funding for imaging scans in the last six years and protect the...
February 10, 2012 — Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, determined arterial stiffness using the relationship between cuff pressure...
February 10, 2012—Merit Medical Systems recently announced it acquired the assets of Ostial Solutions LLC, maker of the Ostial Pro stent positioning system.
February 9, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to Merit Medical Systems Inc. regarding modifications to the hydrophilic coating process for the Merit Laureate...
February 9, 2012 — Stereotaxis Inc. said its Vdrive robotic navigation system, which provides physicians the ability to remotely manipulate traditionally non-robotic catheters, is growing in...
February 9, 2012 — Boston Scientific announced the United States launch of the TruePath CTO device, designed to facilitate the crossing of chronic total occlusions (CTOs, or complete blockages)...
St. Jude Medical has launched its Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and Quartet left ventricular quadripolar pacing lead. It features four electrodes spaced over...
February 9, 2012 — Healthcare imaging specialist Barco announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire U.K.-based JAOtech, a manufacturer of patient entertainment and point-of-care terminals...
February 9, 2012 — Valley Presbyterian Hospital (VPH) was the site for the first implantation in the United States of a new heart device since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved...
February 9, 2012 — DSM announced a successful collaboration with medical manufacturer EPflex Feinwerktechnik GmbH to launch a new set of guidewires with ComfortCoat hydrophilic coating, a...
February 9, 2012 — Wolters Kluwer Health announced King’s Daughters Medical Center has selected its ProVation MD software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in its cardiac...
A 3-D view does more than make for exciting movies in a theater; it can also improve the care of animals. The Chicago Zoological Society’s (CZS) Brookfield Zoo is the first North American zoo to...
