June 5, 2008 – The TigerWire Steerable Guidewire, a wire designed to enhance physicians' ability to steer through challenging peripheral arteries, received European CE Mark approval, which St. Jude Medical announced at EuroPCR 2008 in Barcelona, Spain.

June 5, 2008 – AngioScore started enrollment in the AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheter Multi-Center Coronary Bifurcation Study (AGILITY), designed to compare AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheters in treating bifurcation lesions over conventional angioplasty balloon catheters.

June 5, 2008 - At the SVS Vascular Annual Meeting Royal Philips Electronics and Skytron said they are teaming up to deliver hybrid operating rooms for minimally invasive cardiovascular surgical procedures. The solution combines Philips' cardiovascular X-ray systems with Skytron's surgery room equipment to enable clinicians to treat cardiovascular patients in the same room.

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 – Philips was selected for a 33-month contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, in order to provide Premier’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 device’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 – 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.

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