March 9, 2020 — Less than week after the American College of Cardiology (ACC) said it would push ahead with holding its large 2020 annual meeting March 28-30 in Chicago, amid other medical conferences cancelling due to the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), ACC announced today it cancelled the 2020 meeting. 


March 6, 2020 — Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Wisconsin have demonstrated that using artificial intelligence to analyze computed tomography (CT) scans can produce more accurate risk assessment for major cardiovascular events than current, standard methods such as the


March 5, 2020 – Due to the rapidly evolving novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in the U.S. and internationally, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced today it is cancelling its five-day 2020 conference, which was slated to begin Monday. The large healthcare conference has more than 40,000 attendees.


March 5, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Acutus Medical SuperMap, an addition to its AcQMap 3-D imaging and mapping system used to guide electrophysiology (EP) catheter ablation procedures. Adding the SuperMap mode to the AcQMap system enables users to visualize any atrial rhythm in less than three minutes. Rapidly mapping and re-mapping the whole heart chamber facilitates a new procedural workflow in EP ablation, making it practical to execute an iterative "map, ablate, re-map" approach to diagnosis and therapy.

March 5, 2020 — Abbott recently received Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Fully Implantable Left Ventricular Assist System (FILVAS) currently in development. 

The FDA launched the Breakthrough Devices Program in 2018 to help expedite the development and review of submissions for technology that offers significant advantages over existing approved products.

March 5, 2020 — Experts in the medical imaging community have developed a new, landmark consensus document to optimize care of patients with congenital coronary anomalies. These defects of the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart muscles can be an important cause of a heart attack and sudden cardiac death in children and young adults, but historically they have been difficult to identify without cardiac catheterization.

March 5, 2020 — More than 300 patients have joined the Amyloidosis Patient Registry and it is now available to the entire community, announced the Amyloidosis Support Groups (ASG), a nonprofit volunteer organization providing support nationwide for those impacted by all types of amyloidosis. The Registry is a compilation of data on the amyloidosis patient experience and is intended to become the new, go-to resource for medical researchers and caregivers in the pursuit of earlier diagnosis, better treatment and improved quality of life for those affected by this debilitating disease.

March 4, 2020 — SymphonyAI Group, an operating group of leading business-to-business AI companies, today announced the acquisition of TeraRecon, the market-leading advanced visualization and AI solution provider for medical imaging. As SymphonyAI Group's seventh portfolio company, TeraRecon has a charter to establish a new portfolio of healthcare AI solutions focused on medical imaging. 


March 3, 2020 — Two sizable European medical conferences in cardiology and radiology were canceled today as fears continue to mount over the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The European Society of Radiology announced it is postponing its European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2020 annual meeting that was supposed to take placed March 11-15 in Vienna, Austria.



March 2, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine website from the month of February 2020. This is based on the website’s 260,216 pageviews for the month:

1. The Cardiac Implications of Novel Coronavirus

2. FDA Clears Medtronic Micra AV to Treat AV Block 


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