October 7, 2011 — Among individuals 65 years and older, as many as 30 percent have aortic valve sclerosis or stenosis and, as a result of their deteriorating health, cannot enjoy a normal lifestyle.

October 7, 2011 — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., released a blueprint containing immediate steps to drive biomedical innovation, while improving the health of Americans.

October 7, 2011 — Boston Scientific Corp. has started patient enrollment in the Omega clinical trial, designed to evaluate the company's Omega platinum chromium bare-metal coronary stent system. The trial will test the safety and effectiveness of OMEGA in treating patients with a single coronary artery lesion.

Digging through boxes, waiting for couriers, finding smashed VHS tapes in the mail, jockeying back and forth between multiple modalities. Like at other hospitals across the country, the manual, tape- and film-based workflow in the pediatric cardiology department at Mercy Children’s Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, had stagnated. The workflow had quadrupled in the time it took the cardiologists to read echocardiograms for the hospital and four outreach centers, resulting in a report turnaround time that could be as long as five to seven days.

October 7, 2011 — Biosensors has announced completion of its acquisition of JW Medical Systems Ltd. (JWMS), one of the top three suppliers of drug-eluting stents (DES) in China.

October 6, 2011 – Cambridge Heart Inc. announced it has concluded data review for the company’s microvolt T-wave alternans-computer-aided detection (MTWA-CAD) feasibility study. The data suggest MTWA is a statistically significant predictor of ischemic events. In addition, the data revealed instances where the company's MTWA test identified underlying coronary artery disease that was not identified by other standard diagnostic modalities.


Although computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems have been around for a few years, only a few vendors really embraced the market with robust offerings and only a few healthcare providers showed interest in adopting them — until the 2009 passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). After that, the landscape changed considerably, as many providers wanted to take advantage of reimbursements available in meeting meaningful use (MU) requirements and the rate of adoption grew significantly.

During RSNA 2011, Infinitt will showcase its latest advances in image and information management across the enterprise.

Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine is looking for readers' opinions about what they think are the most innovative cardiac technologies released in the past year. We also want readers to give us their opinions on what will be the hot trends in 2012.

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