The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Magnetom Sola, a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner from Siemens Healthineers that brings Siemens’ BioMatrix technology to the 1.5T market. This technology addresses patient anatomical and physiological differences, as well as differences in how users set up and conduct MRI exams, to increase productivity and decrease rescans for improved efficiency and patient satisfaction.

Tracking just seven factors of heart attack patients when they are first admitted to the hospital can help flag those most at risk for 30-day readmission, researchers from UT Southwestern found.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market clearance for FibriCheck, a Belgian medical smartphone application for the detection of heart rhythm disorders. The approval makes FibriCheck the first-FDA approved app for heart rhythm disorders by using only an optical signal originating from a non-medical device such as a smartphone.

Endologix Inc. received notice that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified a voluntary recall action that Endologix took in July of this year as a Class I recall. The July recall involved Endologix’s issuance of a Safety Notice to healthcare professionals (HCPs) using the AFX Endovascular AAA System.

An example of a comprehensive CVIS is the ScImage Picom 365 system, which includes several sub-speciality reporting modules to eliminate the need for several different, disparate reporting systems in the cardiology department. Also called cardiac PACS cardiovascular information and imaging systems.

“I don’t trust anything that’s being portrayed in the marketing brochures and will believe it only when the solution is implemented and adopted,”  said a cardiologist at a recent steering committee meeting for a luminary healthcare organization I attended. While both blunt and bold, it resonated with me as it accurately summarized the cardiovascular information and imaging systems (CVIS) market, as well as my own experience with various CVIS deployments.
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