March 5, 2010 - Vendor neutral archives virtualize enterprise storage and provide on-demand delivery of images and data to locations throughout the enterprise, regardless of where the information is physically stored or where it originated. These capabilities are engineered to streamline IT tasks and help healthcare providers reduce expenses.

March 5, 2010 - After wavering between an initial offer from Thoma Bravo, LLC for $5.35 per share, and an offer from Merge Healthcare Inc.

March 4, 2010 – During ACC 2010, cardiovascular IT solutions from Siemens will be shown to help optimize clinical workflows through integration of imaging and information, and are designed to make healthcare faster, better and more cost-effective.

March 3, 2010 – Pharmaceutical companies will struggle to profit from the cardiovascular disease (CVD) market over the next decade despite growing drug usage, according to new market research from Datamonitor.

March 3, 2010 – Two poster sessions will highlight research of Atherotech’s VAP Cholesterol Test at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session Exposition, March 14-16, in Atlanta.

March 2, 2010 — A new transcatheter valve and delivery systems has received European market clearance.

A disciplined European launch of the transcatheter aortic heart valve and the 18 French NovaFlex delivery systems is being planned, with the goal of expanding the number of commercial sites utilizing the systems throughout the year.

March 2, 2010 — A surgical valve has earned the European market clearance nod, marking the manufacturer's launch into the market for pericardial aortic stented tissue valves.

The Trifecta tissue valve is used to replace a patient’s diseased, damaged or malfunctioning aortic heart valve, which controls blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body.

March 2, 2010 — A new stent and delivery system for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) received CE mark approval this week.

The SAMBA Stent and delivery system was designed to treat the highly varied presentation of atherosclerotic disease in the superficial femoral (SFA) and popliteal arteries by providing a unique combination of strength, flexibility and vessel coverage.

March 2, 2010 – A robotic cath lab navigation system may potentially raise the standard of care in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by improving standardization, reproducibility and accuracy, according to George W. Vetrovec, M.D., of Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, when he spoke at CRT 2010 last week.

March 2, 2010 – Cardiac enhancements to ensure the highest image quality at lower radiation doses are among the new software upgrades released this week for the Aquilion ONE CT system.

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