June 19, 2009 – HealthFrontier Inc., together with its technology partner, et medical devices SpA, Italy, yesterday introduced a new innovation in Web-enabled electrocardiogram (ECG) technology, the ecg@home, which is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.

June 19, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) is set to hold its fourth annual scientific meeting, July 16-19, 2009 in Orlando, Fla.

June 18, 2009 - Several definitions have been used to assess rates of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and a study this week in the American Journal of Cardiology (Vol. 103, Issues 12, pages 1,657-1,662, June 15, 2009), underlines the need to standardize these definitions.

June 18, 2009 – MedCentral Health System just launched Siemens new knowledge-driven, healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures, enabled by the REMIND (Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Non-structured Data) Platform.

June 18, 2009 - St. Jude Medical Inc. said today the FDA approved its Cool Point Irrigation Pump, used in conjunction with St. Jude Medical (SJM) open-irrigated ablation catheters, to supply a continuous flow of saline through the catheter’s inner lumen to cool the ablation electrode for more effective energy delivery.

June 18, 2009 - Berlin Heart Inc. said this week the FDA awarded it an Orphan Product Development Grant to support the ongoing investigational device exemption (IDE) study of the EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device (VAD). The device received unconditional approval for investigational use in pediatric patients in the U.S. in October 2008. The grant will provide three years of support.

June 18, 2009 – Abbott this week initiated SPIRIT PRIME, a clinical trial to study the performance of the company's next-generation Xience PRIME Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System, currently an investigational device, for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

June 18, 2009 – GE Healthcare this week launched its Stimulus Simplicity program, which offers healthcare providers interest-free loans with deferred payments to purchase electronic medical records (EMRs) and a certification warranty to ensure the EMRs will meet any guidelines set for meaningful use.


June 16, 2009 - “Our profession faces one of the most significant crises in its history,” said Michael Graham, M.D., the new president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), as he addressed a room packed with national and international press, hungry for accountability and solutions to the shortage of nuclear medicine radioisotopes.

June 16, 2009 - While the healthcare community awaited the first "Meaningful Use" definition due today, healthcare stakeholders struggled to define one of the key medical terms for the ARRA.

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