April 21, 2010 - With the complexity of payer requirements for hospitals increasing as well as the risks associated with using aging technology platforms, more and more health care providers are turning to health IT-based solutions to better manage their critical revenue cycle processes.

April 19, 2010 – The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 scientific sessions set for September will provide significant clinical research updates to technologies and practices in interventional cardiology that will directly affect patient care.

April 14, 2010 – The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York has become the first facility in the United States to commercially use a new cardiac nuclear imaging system that drastically reduces imaging time and radiation exposure.

April 13, 2010 – More than 300 patients in Europe have been enrolled in a real-world study to assess the effectiveness of a coronary bifurcation stent. Enrollment was completed last week in E-Tryton 150 and E-Tryton Benelux, two European registry studies evaluating the Tryton Side Branch Stent System for the treatment of atherosclerotic lesions in the side branch at the site of a bifurcation.

April 9, 2010 – The first patients have been enrolled in the INNOVATION trial, which will assess the safety of a new stent graft system to treat abdominal aortic aneurisms (AAA).

April 9, 2010 – A preclinical study shows the action of a toll-like receptor (TLR) antagonist helps reduce atherosclerosis in mice.