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A discussion with Professor Ian Meredith, MBBS, Ph.D., global chief medical officer and executive vice president, Boston ...

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October 10, 2018 — Medical coding software provider ZHealth recently unveiled Etch, the first-ever software platform ...

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A 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.  The training area was sponsored by Siemens Healthineers
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | 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 perform ...

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An example of a comprehensive CVIS is the ScImage Picom 365 system, which includes several sub-speciality reporting modules to eliminate the need for several different, disparate reporting systems in the cardiology department. Also called cardiac PACS cardiovascular information and imaging systems.
Feature | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS) | 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 is ...
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August 31, 2018 — A new report from data and analytics company GlobalData suggests that Amazon is poised to make huge ...

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August 9, 2018 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule August 9 that would overhaul ...

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News | Venous Therapies

August 8, 2018 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Veniti Inc., which has ...

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News | Embolic Protection Devices

August 3, 2018 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced it has recently closed its acquisition of Claret Medical Inc., a ...

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July 27, 2018 — Following the deactivation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) by the Agency for Healthcare ...

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A CoreValve TAVR valve seen in a CT scan looking down from the aortic arch into the left ventricle using reconstruction software from TeraRecon.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology

July 26, 2018 — A new multi-societal expert consensus document has been released that summarizes the position of these ...

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July 13, 2018 — Boston Scientific Corp. recently announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cryterion Medical Inc., a ...

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ICD Placements Not Meeting Medicare Coverage Criteria Decline After Overuse Investigation Announced
Feature | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

July 11, 2018 — Placement of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) not meeting Centers for Medicare and ...

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News | CT Angiography (CTA)

July 3, 2018 — HeartFlow Inc. announced that UnitedHealthcare now covers the HeartFlow FFRct Analysis, extending access ...

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June 7, 2018 — A new report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discusses the continued quality, safety and ...

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Digital mHealth advances like wearable heart monitors, use of smartphone apps and artificial intelligence will reshape the standard of care in the coming years according to three recent JACC articles.
Feature | Information Technology

June 5, 2018 — The future of cardiovascular care will be transformed by advances in artificial intelligence, digital ...

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