August 24, 2011 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new initiative to improve care for patients while in the hospital and after discharge. Doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers can now apply for a new program known as the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative (Bundled Payments initiative).

August 24, 2011 -- Radiopharmaceuticals are pharmaceutical agents used to diagnose certain medical problems, such as cardiac, cancer or neurology, and/or treat certain conditions such as cancers. The use of radiopharmaceuticals as tracer dates back to 1930s.

August 24, 2011 — CardioFocus Inc., developer of the HeartLight endoscopic ablation system (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), announced the system is now available in the United Kingdom. The first AF patients were treated at The Heart Hospital in London on Wednesday, August 17, with additional cases to take place throughout the month.

August 24, 2011 — Cleveland HeartLab Inc. (CHL), a specialty clinical laboratory and disease management company, announced the completion of an $18.4-million Series B financing round. The rapidly growing company hopes to further accelerate market adoption of its advanced approach to assessing cardiovascular disease risk using biomarkers of inflammation. This approach includes the company’s CardioMPO test for circulating myeloperoxidase, the anchor of its proprietary inflammation panel.

August 23, 2011 — Verathon Inc. introduced the Heartscape 3-D Electrocardiogram (ECG) System with 80-lead vest in Europe. It is designed to give emergency department (ED) physicians, interventional cardiologists and ED nurses a more complete diagnostic picture by providing a 360-degree view of the heart.

August 23, 2011 — A new study shows heart attack patients are now being treated an average of 32 minutes faster than five years ago. This provides evidence a national campaign's success to treat heart attacks within 90 minutes in order to reduce heart damage and costs associated with treatment. This is according to David Holmes, M.D., FACC, president of the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

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