March 2, 2009 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has created a summary of the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009,” aka "the stimulus bill," which includes recommendations for its members.

Pie Medical Imaging’s FDA-cleared cardiac magnetic resonance quantitative analysis software, CAAS MRV Magnetic Resonance Ventricular analysis) software reportedly enables cardiologists and radiologists to perform easy and fast functional analysis on cine-magnetic resonance images for cardiac MRI studies.

Cardiac Science’s Atria 6100 is an ectrocardiogram system (ECG/ EKG) designed for hospitals and cardiology clinics. Reportedly designed with a friendly user interface and clear, readable color display, the monitor makes reading ECG waveform data easy.

ScImage's reporting module PICOM Structured Reportware (PicomSR) for echocardiography combines structured reporting elements along with voice recognition, delivering a pre-populated report that the technician can start by importing elements such as procedure descriptions, indications, measurements, observations during procedure and simple findings from the modality.

Beijing Choice Electronic Technology Ltd., offers the MD100B hand-held electro ECG monitor, which offers measurements in 30 seconds.

March 2, 2009 - Results were released today from a clinical study of the quarter-time Xpress3.Cardiac, UltraSPECT's WBR (wide-beam reconstruction) image reconstruction algorithm used to create half-time SPECT images of high diagnostic quality.

March 2, 2009 - Hansen Medical Inc. today announced an equity investment in Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Inc. (ACT), and the procurement of certain exclusive rights to ACT’s patented microwave radiometry technology.

ACT is developing a novel technology that is designed to accurately measure the temperature in a lesion during cardiac ablation procedures.

Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Cardiovascular (IMPAX CV) technology expands the diagnostic capabilities of multiple cardiovascular modalities. A comprehensive, cost-effective solution for cardiovascular imaging and reporting, IMPAX CV enables clinicians to comprehensively review and post-process images.

February 27, 2009 - Dr. Alberto Interian Jr., medical director of the Mercy Hospital Arrhythmia Syncope Center, is the first doctor in Miami-Dade County, FL to implant an innovative cardiac monitoring device for patients with irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias), or recurrent, unexplained fainting (syncope).

February 27, 2009 - As the country moves to transform healthcare with the passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 42 U.S. hospitals recognized as a Stage 6 by HIMSS Analytics serve as role models in healthcare IT adoption for other healthcare systems just beginning this process.

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