As part of its plans to spin off its healthcare division into a separate company, GE reportedly submitted the paperwork Dec. 19 for an initial public offering (IPO) of the standalone company....
Cardiovascular Business
The cardiovascular business channel offers news and new technologies to aid the business management of the cardiovascular service line.
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A judge of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional in a shocking decision that could impact the health insurance coverage...
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A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware determined Dec. 11 that the Boston Scientific U.S. patent 8,992,608 is valid and that Edwards Lifesciences' Sapien 3 Aortic Valve...
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Professor Ian Meredith, MBBS, Ph.D., global chief medical officer and executive vice president, Boston Scientific, explains...
A large amount of the bill for atrial fibrillation catheter ablation procedures is the cost of the mapping and ablation catheters. Researchers raised the question whether an economic benefit should be assessed in FDA reviews.
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | January 14, 2019 | Philip Jacobs, DPhil, Ilke Akpinar, M.D., Thanh Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D., Rupinder Sandhu, M.D., and Lars Thording Ph.D.
In an age when everything in medicine is now looked at though a cost vs. benefit analysis and U.S. government...
News | Cardiovascular Business | December 19, 2018
December 19, 2018 — As part of its plans to spin off its healthcare division into a separate company, GE reportedly...
News | Cardiovascular Business | December 17, 2018
December 17, 2018 — A judge of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled the Affordable...
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | December 12, 2018
December 12, 2018 — A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware determined Dec. 11 that the...
News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies | November 19, 2018
November 19, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to add an exception to informed consent...
The cardiovascular innovation cycle, presented by TCT Course Director Martin Leon, M.D., at TCT 2018.
Blog | Cath Lab | October 16, 2018
There is a hype cycle surrounding new technologies in all industries, but medicine is unique because of its focus on...
News | Cardiovascular Business | October 15, 2018
October 15, 2018 — The nation’s two leading cardiac...
Videos | October 11, 2018
A discussion with Professor Ian Meredith, MBBS, Ph.D., global chief medical officer and executive vice president,...
Technology | Cardiovascular Business | October 10, 2018
October 10, 2018 — Medical coding software provider ZHealth recently unveiled Etch, the first-ever software platform...
A Siemens-sponsored hands-on-training session at TCT 2018 that instructed interventional cardiologists how to use an intra-cardiac echo (ICE) catheter to image the chambers inside the heart with a catheter based ultrasound imaging system. Regular training is needed to build customer satisfaction, especially in light of regular staff turnover.
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | October 10, 2018 | John Larson
Years ago, I owned a computer that ran a spreadsheet program called Lotus 1-2-3. After about a year, I needed to...
An example of a comprehensive CVIS is the ScImage Picom 365 system, which includes several subspeciality reporting modules to eliminate the need for several different, disparate reporting systems in the cardiology department.
Feature | Cardiac PACS | October 05, 2018 | Val Kapitula RT(R), PMP, CIIP
“I don’t trust anything that’s being portrayed in the marketing brochures and will believe it only when the solution...
News | Cardiovascular Business | August 31, 2018
August 31, 2018 — A new report from data and analytics company GlobalData suggests that Amazon is poised to make...
News | Cardiovascular Business | August 09, 2018
August 9, 2018 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule August 9 that would...
