Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging

Korean Congress of Radiology

More than 1 in 3 atrial fibrillation (AF) patients at intermediate to high risk for stroke are treated with aspirin alone, according to new research, despite previous data showing this therapy to be inferior to blood thinners.

Measuring antibody levels in the blood could be used to detect a person’s heart attack risk after researchers, part-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), discovered that higher levels of these antibodies are linked to a lower heart attack risk.

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) announced the winners of its annual ‘Reflections of Research’ image competition, reflecting the charity’s research into heart and circulatory disease.

Biotronik announced it was the winner of the Cardiostim Innovation Award in the category “Best Practice Improvement” for its MRI AutoDetect feature. The award was given at the Cardiostim 2016 conference, June 8-11 in Nice, France.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has named the American College of Radiology (ACR) a “qualified Provider-Led Entity” (qPLE) approved to provide appropriate use criteria (AUC) under the Medicare Appropriate Use Criteria program for advanced diagnostic imaging.

Zoll Medical Corp. announced that patients experience a high one-year survival rate following use of the LifeVest Wearable Defibrillator. New results from the Prospective Registry of Patients Using the Wearable Defibrillator (WEARIT-II Registry) were presented by Valentina Kutyifa, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center, during the Late-Breaking Clinical Trials session at CardioStim/EuroPace 2016.

Epsilon Imaging Inc. announced a research study was presented at the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2016 conference from a team at the University of Chicago.

In a recent report on satisfaction among healthcare information technology (IT) customers, Agfa HealthCare customers reported high levels of satisfaction with the company's products and service.

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