April 3, 2009 - Long-term data presented at ACC.09 from Abbott’s SPIRIT II clinical trial demonstrated the clinical advantages of the XIENCE V Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent continued to increase between two and three years compared to the TAXUS Express2 Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent / TAXUS Liberte Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary
Stent (TAXUS).

April 3, 2009 - Sorin Group today announced CE mark certification and market release of the ESPRIT pacemaker family in Europe, which the company says is the world’s smallest pacemaker at 8cc.

April 3, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. will demonstrate its latest advances in connectivity and workflow integration technology on its SonoSite Turbo ultrasound system platform, during the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) 2009 Conference April 4-8 in Chicago.

April 3, 2009 - ZOLL Medical Corp. said yesterday it initiated a voluntary worldwide field corrective action on its ZOLL AED Plus automated external defibrillator, where the company found some batteries do not work properly when used with AED Plus defibrillators manufactured prior to Feb. 12, 2009 (serial numbers below X_ _ _200000).

April 3, 2009 – GE Healthcare IT and Microsoft Corp. today announced the companies have entered into an independent software vendor (ISV) alliance agreement to provide customers with enhanced healthcare IT administration capabilities that support GE’s Centricity Enterprise healthcare IT solution, currently in use by many hospitals worldwide.

April 3, 2009 - Kaiser Permanente has substantially improved the heart attack survival rate for its members in Colorado through an innovative program that links coronary disease patients, and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists, with an electronic health record and advanced clinical care registry.

April 3, 3009 - Data Ltd. will launch at HIMSS ’09 the new M9000 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) a rugged, medical-grade device that packs embedded wireless capabilities, barcode scanning and RFID, a 2MP color camera, and more into a fully disinfectable, lightweight tablet computer.

April 3, 2009 - Results from the Medtronic-supported IRIS (Immediate Risk Stratification Improves Survival) clinical trial assessing the use of implantable cardiac devices (ICDs) in certain heart attack patients show a reduction in sudden cardiac death.

April 3, 2009 - BIOTRONIK GmbH & Co Kg this week announced the global launch of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring with its intelligent traffic light system, designed to provide efficient and convenient remote monitoring of patients with implantable cardiac devices (ICDs).

April 2, 2009 – FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA ranked third overall ranking on the Overall Software Vendor Rankings list, following Epic and 3M in the 2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report.

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