Aug. 8, 2012 — The Berlin Heart Group said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for its post approval study, a condition of the humanitarian device exemption (HDE) approval that Berlin Heart received for the Excor Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) in December 2011.

Aug. 8, 2012 — iHeart Centers acquired the Heart IT WebPAX system for facilitating the management of medical images. The zero-footprint medical image workstation provides Web-based medical image management technology and services to healthcare systems, large hospitals and private clinics.