The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services on the Meaningful Use Stage 3 proposed rule and the 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria.

Oxford Instruments plc has acquired Medical Imaging Resources Inc. (MIR). MIR specializes in the build, lease and service of mobile medical imaging labs.

CVRx Inc. announced that positive results from the 'Barostim Therapy for Heart Failure' randomized, controlled clinical trial were presented at the ESC-Heart Failure 2015 Annual Conference in a late-breaking trial session. Results were presented by Prof. Jochen Müller-Ehmsen, M.D., Ph.D., from Asklepios Hospital Altona in Hamburg, Germany.

electronic stents, bioresorbable electronic stent, BES
electronic stents, bioresorbable electronic stent, BES
electronic stents, bioresorbable electronic stent, BES
electronic stents, bioresorbable electronic stent, BES
electronic stents, bioresorbable electronic stent, BES

With the recent innovation of flexible microelectronic sensor circuits that can be made from bioresorbable materials, it is now possible to create “electronic stents” to monitor a treated lesion site inside a patient’s artery. A Korean-led team recently published their research on the first device of this kind, showing proof of concept in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.[1] 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the InvisionECG technology from InvisionHeart. The mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) technology uses a secure cloud-based, healthcare IT platform to capture and manage 12-lead ECGs.

CyberHeart, Stony Brook, NSF grant, $4.2 million, Scott Smolka

A virtual-heart platform proposed by Stony Brook University researchers and colleagues has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $4.2 million over five years. The platform was designed to improve and accelerate medical-device development and testing.
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