December 27, 2011 — The January 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE) will feature a new resource for guidance on three-dimensional echocardiography (3-DE). The document, titled The EAE/ASE Recommendations for Image Acquisition and Display Using Three-Dimensional Echocardiography, provides a practical guide on how to acquire analyze and display the various cardiac structures using 3-DE.

December 27, 2011 — ImaCor Inc. announced that 25 leading hospitals in the United States, Canada and Europe are now using its hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiographic (hTEE) management devices. The ClariTEE probe and Zura imaging platform allow physicians to directly visualize cardiac size and function of high-risk anesthesiology patients during and after surgery.

December 27, 2011 — CardioComm Solutions Inc. demonstrated HeartCheck Smart Monitoring, its newly developed remote patient electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring service, during Medica 2011. The system uses CardioComm’s new application programming interface (API), and their established C4 (CardioComm Coordinating Centre) arrhythmia and ECG management service to interact with handheld patient-activated ECG monitoring devices. Medica 2011 was held in Germany in November.

December 27, 2011 – In a move to re-engineer the process of translating scientific discoveries into new drugs, diagnostics and devices, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The action was made possible by Congress’ approval of a fiscal year 2012 spending bill and the president’s signing of the bill, which includes the establishment of NCATS with a budget of $575 million.

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