Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced European commercial market launch of the DirecTrack Delivery System, a next-generation delivery system for the Direct Flow Medical Transcatheter Aortic Valve System.

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Healthcare providers will need to start preparing for the next big healthcare information technology (IT) implementation — clinical decision support (CDS) software. Under congressional legislation based on a compromise between numerous medical societies to accept required CDS documentation for Medicare reimbursements, large scheduled cuts in reimbursements were suspended in the 2014 Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA). A deadline was originally set for providers to begin required use of CDS starting in 2017, but it is likely this will be pushed back to 2018 or later. 

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. announced it would demonstrate the following diagnostic imaging technologies at this year’s American College of Cardiology 2016 Annual Scientific Session, April 2-4 in Chicago:

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) released a new interactive map to increase understanding of geographic disparities in chronic disease among Medicare beneficiaries.

Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the CorPath System for use in peripheral vascular interventions.

St. Jude Medical Inc. announced CE Mark approval and launch of three new Quartet left ventricular (LV) leads, offering additional electrode spacing options and one new lead shape.

NeoChord Inc. announced that David H. Adams, M.D., and Michael A. Borger, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as national co-principal investigators of the company’s U.S. pivotal trial scheduled to commence later this year.

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Cybersecurity data breaches of healthcare cloud computing systems are on the rise.

A person’s healthcare records contain a wealth of sensitive information. This does not involve just their medical history, but it also contains a fairly comprehensive range of facts about them as an individual. Healthcare records will have information about a patient's address, information about their relatives, social security numbers and other identifiers, and they contain financial information.
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