January 23, 2009 - ATS Medical Inc. (ATS) is sponsoring "Frontiers in Cryoablation," a symposium designed to provide a unique forum for sharing experiences among physician attendees, to be held during the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Jan. 24-28, 2009 in San Francisco.

ATS Medical's Cryoablation Scientific Advisory Board members will lead the open discussion in a question and answer format. The symposium will be held on Sunday, Jan. 25th at 7:00 pm at the Marriott San Francisco.

January 22, 2009 – McKesson won a contract with the Baptist Healthcare System for the management of its physician revenue cycle designed to help affiliated physician staff address operational and revenue challenges.

January 22, 2009 - Delivering clot-busting drugs with an ultrasound-enhanced delivery system could reduce the amount of drugs needed to break up dangerous blood clots in the legs and pelvis, according to discussions surrounding a live case demonstration at the 21st annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET).

January 22, 2008 - Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities recently created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases.

The devices are made by injecting a liquid alloy made of indium and gallium into thin microchannels between two sheets of a plastic polymer, said Babak Ziaie, a Purdue associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Cell cultures are grown on top of the new “stretchable cell culture platform.”

January 22, 2009 - Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc. said this week it received CE Mark for its FlexStent Femoropopliteal Self Expanding Stent System.

Stent sizes include a complete matrix of 5, 6, 7 and 8 mm diameters with 30 through 150 mm lengths in a 6 French delivery system.

January 22, 2009- NewCardio Inc., a cardiac diagnostic and services company, announced its membership in the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium (CSRC), a broad-based collaboration of medical product safety experts from academia, industry and the FDA.

January 21, 2009 - Invatec this week announced the European launch of a new peripheral balloon, the IN.PACT Amphirion paclitaxel-eluting PTA balloon catheter.

January 21, 2009 - Emageon said its been awarded a five-year HeartSuite VERICIS cardiology contract with MultiCare Health System, an integrated health organization made up of four hospitals in the Greater Tacoma, WA area.
Emageon will supply its VERICIS digital PACS and HeartSuite hemodynamics solution for four cath labs, including one in which Emageon's Pediatric Echo IMS product will be installed. The HeartSuite VERICIS solution will enable MultiCare to digitally process its cardiology PACS studies and cath/echo structured reporting for echocardiography.

January 20, 2009 – Emageon has been awarded a five-year HeartSuite VERICIS cardiology contract with MultiCare Health System, an integrated health organization made up of four hospitals in the Greater Tacoma, WA, to create a platform that includes reports or any type of imaging study from cardiology to radiology.

January 20, 2009 - Boston Scientific Corp. today said it was awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for a full line of the company’s pacemakers and defibrillators.

The one-year contract took effect last month and has annual renewal options for up to four years. It includes Boston Scientific’s newest technologies in both product categories: the ALTRU family of pacemakers and the TELIGEN implantable cardioverter defibrillator.

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