January 21, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced a third software enhancement to its iLab Ultrasound Imaging System, the iLab System 1.3, which is designed to strengthen physician confidence in the diagnosis and intervention of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and increase workflow efficiency.

January 21, 2008 – The FDA cleared St. Jude Medical Inc.’s EnSite Fusion Registration Module, a software designed to help physicians create detailed heart models to facilitate the diagnosis and delivery of therapy for complex abnormal atrial heart rhythms, including Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

January 21, 2008 - More than 200 hospitals were involved in merger or acquisition deals in 2007, continuing a surge in hospital deal-making that began three years earlier, according to Modern Healthcare’s 14th annual hospital merger and acquisition report.

The report appears in the Jan. 21 issue of the weekly healthcare business news magazine.

January 16, 2008 - Waits for emergency care are getting longer each year, according to a study published online this week by the journal Health Affairs.

The study, which analyzed the time between a patient’s arrival in the emergency department (ED) and when they were first seen by a doctor, found that the increasing delays affected everyone, including those with and without health insurance, and people from all racial and ethnic groups.

January 15, 2008 - CardioDynamics will ship over $2 million of ICG NICCOMO monitoring systems to two large international hospital customers, as part of the company's strategy to expand its international sales channels.

January 15, 2008 - Surgeons and electrophysiologists who used AtriCure's endoscopic bipolar ablation system to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) said the procedure was successful in 82 percent of patients that presented with paroxysmal AF and 56 percent of patients that presented with persistent and long-standing persistent AF in a report published in the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.

January 15, 2008 - For Dearborn County Hospital in southeast IN, efficient yet responsive medical care depends on effective communication among doctors, staff, patients and patient families, and that will be aided with the deployment of the IP-based HiPath unified communications platform from Siemens Communications.

January 14, 2008 - Drug-eluting stents in patients undergoing coronary artery revascularization procedures relieve obstructive coronary artery disease, provide durable mechanical results and do more good than harm, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

January 14, 2008 - Scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair created a beating heart in the laboratory, according to research published in the online January 13 issue of Nature Medicine.

January 14, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. launched the AneuRx AAAdvantage Stent Graft on the new Xcelerant Hydro Delivery System, expanding its product line in endovascular therapies for aortic aneurysms.

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