July 16, 2008 - Stereotaxis Inc. said today the pediatric cardiology team at the Heart and Diabetes Center of North Reinland-Westphalia in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, successfully performed a first-of-its-kind procedure to treat pulmonary atresia in a 10-year old boy using the Niobe Magnetic Navigation System.

July 16, 2008 - Earlier this week President Bush vetoed the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (HR 6331) because it excluded a 10.6 percent pay cut to doctors who treat patients in the Medicare program. However, on July 15 the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate voted overwhelmingly voted to override the veto.

July 16, 2008 - St. Jude Medical Inc. this week said it received FDA approval of the Merlin@home transmitter, an RF wireless technology that remotely monitors patients’ implanted cardiac devices.

The transmitter supports the St. Jude Medical Current RF and Promote RF family of devices and works in conjunction with the St. Jude Medical data management system, Merlin.net Patient Care Network (PCN).

St. Jude Medical Inc. offers the Merlin@home transmitter, an RF wireless technology that remotely monitors patients’ implanted cardiac devices.

The transmitter supports the St. Jude Medical Current RF and Promote RF family of devices and works in conjunction with the St. Jude Medical data management system, Merlin.net Patient Care Network (PCN).

July 15, 2008 - Cardiac Science today launched its HeartCentrix 6.2 data management product for the physician office to connect Burdick and Quinton equipment to an electronic medical record (EMR) system.

The connectivity gives access to test results remotely and across locations with a single sign-on from within the EMR itself.

July 15, 2008 – Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas broke its door-to-balloon time record with a 28-minute turn around time after a man suffering a heart attack recently came into the ER and was treated with an angioplasty procedure in the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab.

The procedure, performed by Dr. Kenneth Saland, an interventional cardiologist at Presbyterian, illustrates the importance of providing treatments in a safe, rapid way to those suffering heart attacks.

July 15, 2008 - Epocrates Inc. announced that its mobile drug and formulary reference, reportedly used by more than 500,000 healthcare professionals, can be downloaded free for the iPhone and iPod touch from the Apple App Store after Epocrates registration.

July 15, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. today received Japanese regulatory approval for the Reveal DX Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM), which was designated by the Japanese government as a high-priority medical device, and is the first insertable cardiac monitor to be introduced in Japan.

July 15, 2008 - iCRco released its Clarity PACS, which is designed to offer an affordable image management solution to imaging centers and medical practices using digital radiology.

Clarity is said to be scalable to meet the needs of clinician offices, multiphysician practices, radiology imaging centers and multi-site facilities connected over the Internet. Key features of Clarity include a full-featured DICOM archive, connectivity with a RIS, HIS or third-party PACS, diagnostic viewing with Web-based viewing capabilities, a workflow manager and CD/DVD burning.

July 14, 2008 – The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) said in a statement today, "A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that recommends Medicare adopt prior authorization criteria to address appropriate utilization of medical imaging services was constructed on an incomplete analysis and should not be used by policymakers to make coverage decisions."

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