Conference Coverage

This channel highlights DAIC's coverage of numerous key cardiology and medical imaging conferences each year. These include ACC, AHA, ASE, ASNC, EuroPCR, ECR, HIMSS, HRS, RSNA, SCAI, SCCT, TCT, and VIVA.

Videos | Nuclear Imaging

VIDEO: Implementing CZT SPECT Cardiac Protocols to Reduce Radiation Dose

Randy Thompson, M.D., attending cardiologist, St. Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, explains protocols ...

August 24, 2017

News | Heart Valve Technology

CMS Awards New Technology Add-on Payment for Perceval Sutureless Aortic Heart Valve

August 22, 2017 — LivaNova PLC announced its Perceval sutureless aortic heart valve received approval from the Centers ...

August 22, 2017

News | Cybersecurity

HHS Unveils Improved Web Tool to Highlight Recent Health Information Breaches

August 21, 2017 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently ...

August 21, 2017

Healthcare cybersecurity concerns have increased dramatically as EMRs and medical devices become more digitally connected.

Feature | Cybersecurity | Dave Fornell

The State of Healthcare Cybersecurity

August 17, 2017 — Cybersecurity has become a growing concern in healthcare as patient data, medical systems and ...

August 18, 2017

The FDA is concerned about cybersecurity of ICDs and cyber security of other medical devices.

Feature | Cybersecurity | Dave Fornell

Raising the Bar for Medical Device Cyber Security

There is growing concern among patients and regulators that medical devices, especially implantable electrophysiology ...

August 16, 2017

Bivalirudin exhibited an improvement in 30-day all-cause mortality when injected post PCI.

News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

Meta-Analysis Evaluates the Effect of Post-PCI Bivalirudin on Adverse Clinical Events

August 16, 2017 — A study has examined the efficacies of various post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ...

August 16, 2017

ESC 2017 late breaking trial hot line study presentations.

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Late-breaking Trial Presentations at ESC 2017

September 12, 2017 – The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2017 includes several Hot Line Late-breaking ...

September 12, 2017

NCDR CathPCI Registry data shows in-hospital mortality only marginally higher for PCIs at safety-net hospitals.

News | Cath Lab

Safety-Net vs. Non-Safety-Net Hospitals Deliver Similar PCI Outcomes

Aug. 15, 2017 – Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at safety-net hospitals experienced similar ...

August 15, 2017

The Vascular Dynamics MobiusHD device enhances the carotid baroreceptors to reduce resistant hypertension.

News | Hypertension

Vascular Dynamics to Initiate U.S. Trial for MobiusHD System for Resistant Hypertension

Aug. 15, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Vascular Dynamics Inc. (VDI) ...

August 15, 2017

News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

Abbott Initiates XIENCE Short DAPT Clinical Trial

August 3, 2017 — Abbott recently announced the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical study evaluating the short ...

August 03, 2017

Mitral Valve regurgitation (MR) showed on an echocardiogram using a Toshiba system

News | Heart Valve Technology

4C Medical's Novel Mitral Regurgitation Repair Therapy Highlighted at Innovation Summit

Aug. 3, 2017 — 4C Medical Technologies Inc. minimally invasive therapies for structural heart disease said its ...

August 03, 2017

Medtronic's Arctic Front cyroablation balloon to treat AF

News | Atrial Fibrillation

Cryoballoon Ablation Reduces Costs and Resource Utilization

Aug. 2, 2017 — A new health economic analysis from the landmark FIRE and ICE Trial was published this week in the ...

August 02, 2017

The LimFlow Percutaneous Deep Vein Arterialization System (pDVA) converts veins into arteries to restore blood flow in critical limb ischemia (CLI).

News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

LimFlow Reports Positive Data in Pilot Study of Percutaneous Deep Vein Arterialization System

Aug. 1, 2017 — LimFlow SA announced publication of positive results from the pilot study of the LimFlow Percutaneous ...

August 02, 2017

The ChordArt transcatheter mitral valve leaflet chord replacement system on X-ray, showing the anchoring sections of the artificial chord.

News | Heart Valve Technology

Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair Start-up CoreMedic Gets Financing

Aug. 1, 2017 — CoreMedic, a start-up developing the ChordArt trancatheter mitral valve repair system, has received ...

August 01, 2017

Comparison of 0.5 to 0.25 mm CT scanner resolution showing a coronary stent

Blog | CT Angiography (CTA)

New Developments in Cardiovascular Computed Tomography at SCCT 2017

When the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) was formed in the mid-1990s, its primary goal was to have ...

July 21, 2017