June 5, 2008 - GE Healthcare will provide electrocardiogram technologies (ECG) to the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) for diagnosing cardiac fitness of competing Chinese athletes to help ensure they achieve optimum performance during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

June 4, 2008 ā€“ Philips was selected for a 33-month contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, in order to provide Premierā€™s 1,600 member hospitals and 51,000 additional healthcare sites with access to contracts for Philips Xcelera PACS for Cardiology and Philips iSite PACS for Radiology.

June 4, 2008 - Card Guard AG has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its next-generation LifeStar ACT III Platinum system with 3-lead ECG functionality, designed to enable the tracking of vital heart rhythm information in real-time.

June 3, 2008 - Cardiologists around the country are speaking out against payment cuts that could force the closure of many outpatient catheterization labs, creating long waits and dramatically increasing out-of-pocket costs for thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, according to the Cardiovascular Outpatient Center Alliance (COCA).

Card Guard AG has introduced its next-generation LifeStar ACT III Platinum system with 3-lead ECG functionality, designed to enable the tracking of vital heart rhythm information in real-time. The deviceā€™s DSI product code defines real-time arrhythmia detection and alarm, including ST-segment measurement and alarm to meet the U.S. Payor and Medicare reimbursement requirements.

June 3, 2008 - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), today released a comprehensive plan for advancing health information technology (HIT).

May 3, 2008 ā€“ The first annual National CPR/AED Awareness Week, from June 1-7, will focus on how lives can be saved if more Americans know cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use an automated external defibrillator (AED), and Congress is asking states and municipalities to make AEDs more publicly accessible.

June 3, 2008 - Two patients with permanent atrial fibrillation and three with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation underwent successful pulmonary vein isolation without any reported complications, according to Stefania Riva, M.D., who presented preliminary results of a study on new RF ablation catheters at the 7th Annual Session of the Italian Association of Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing on April 3, 2008 in Milan, Italy.

June 3, 2008 - Kimberly-Clark Health Care said today its InteguSeal Microbial Sealant, a microbial barrier designed to reduce the risk of skin flora contamination throughout a surgical procedure, received a 2008 Medical Design Excellence Award.

The InteguSeal Microbial Sealant uses a proprietary formulation to seal and immobilize pathogens to help protect against migration into an incision. The sealant has been used in more than 150,000 applications during surgical procedures internationally, the company said.

June 3, 2008 - The CE certified Over and Under Pericardium Covered Stent (PCS) commercial implantation and first implantation in the U.K. was performed at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, representing the use of a new approach that may usher in a new era for interventional medicine.

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