August 11, 2009 – Medical Technologies International Inc. (MTI) said yesterday it is partnering with the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) to help clarify and monitor the cardiovascular health of the center’s astronauts and trainees using MTI’s ArterioVision test.

August 11, 2009 – New research reveals T-wave morphology parameters contain predictive value for mortality in the general population, independent of other clinical risk factors, according to a study published in the August issue of the HeartRhythm Journal, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society.

August 10, 2009 – The adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) is ramping up in the United States due to President Obama's stimulus plan, designed to promote widespread EMR adoption by 2015, according to Millennium Research Group (MRG).

August 10, 2009 – Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is expanding a successful new cholesterol medication adherence program that provides physicians with greater insight into their patients’ medication use.

August 10, 2009 – SyntheMed Inc. said this week its antiadhesion product, the REPEL-CV Bioresorbable Adhesion Barrier, received the endorsement of Kids With Heart National Association for Children's Heart Disorders Inc.

August 7, 2009 – Using 64-slice CT coronary angiography can avoid further invasive angiographies, which can add up to significant cost savings, according to a new study in the American Journal of Cardiology (August 2009, vol. 104, issue 4, pages 498-500).

August 7, 2009 – An innovative program that cut cardiac deaths by 73 percent by linking coronary artery disease patients and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors, and cardiologists with an electronic health record (EHR) also kept the patients healthy two years after they left the program by keeping them in touch with their caregivers electronically, according to a randomized study

August 7, 2009 - Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) are among the relevant topics Siemens Healthcare will cover covered at its Innovations forum, which runs from August 8-12 in Philadelphia, Penn.

August 6, 2009 – Ziosoft Inc., an advanced visualization and analysis software for medical imaging, and Healthcare Software Systems Ltd. (HSS), a United Kingdom supplier of radiology information systems, have signed an agreement for HSS to distribute Ziosoft’s 3D thin-client software solutions in the U.K.

August 6, 2009 – Matthew Budoff, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of cardiac CT at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute in Torrance, Calif., has become the first cardiologist in California to offer patients BioShield-Radiation R1, the only patented dietary supplement designed to neutralize the damaging free radicals produced b

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