The novel Aortix device has earned a spot among the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities accepted for presentation in the Interventional Innovation “Shark Tank” Competition at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual scientific symposium. The event will be held Tuesday, Oct. 13, in San Francisco, California.

GE Healthcare announced the creation of a new business unit, Sustainable Healthcare Solutions (SHS), that will develop high-value, low-cost technologies and healthcare delivery solutions across multiple care settings. The new organization will invest $300 million as part of a multi-phase effort to develop a more robust affordable healthcare portfolio for customers. The unit will combine GE Healthcare’s operations in India, South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia.

Beaumont Hospital - Royal Oak is the first in Michigan and one of just a handful in the United States to offer fractional flow reserve by computed tomography, also known as FFR-CT. The technology is a noninvasive, diagnostic tool recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and developed by HeartFlow Inc.

Procyrion Inc. of Houston has been awarded the grand prize of $20,000 in the 2015 "Create the Future" Design Contest for the first catheter-deployed heart pump intended for long-term treatment of chronic heart failure.

October 5, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Boston Scientific’s Synergy Bioabsorbable Polymer Drug-Eluting Stent System (BP-DES) for the treatment of coronary artery disease. This is the first stent approved on the U.S. market that uses a metallic stent with a bioresorbable polymer drug-carrier rather than permanent polymers, which have been implicated as a cause of late-stent thrombosis. 

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

With exceptional education, world-class speakers, cutting-edge technology and products, and powerful networking, the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition is the health IT conference. We're pleased to announce that registration for HIMSS16 is now open.

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Annual Scientific Sessions

The 2016 SCMR Annual Meeting which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California. The event draws over 1,000 attendees.

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