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.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
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.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
Three medical professional societies this week jointly released a new reporting system to standardize reporting of patients undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography (coronary CTA).
This is an animation, supplied by Gore, demonstrated how the Cardioform Septal Occluder is implanted for the ...
ZOOM+ announced the launch of ZOOM+Imaging, a proprietary digital platform for on-demand scheduling, paying and sharing results for X-ray, ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) scans.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Medtronic plc announced results from several feasibility studies evaluating a new approach to implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy at Cardiostim/EHRA Europace 2016, the World Congress in Electrophysiology and Cardiac Techniques, in Nice, France.
Philips announced it would be showcasing a variety of nuclear imaging solutions at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2016 Annual Meeting, June 11-15 in San Diego.
After following a large sub-set of patients, researchers found that by using strain echocardiography they could accurately predict which patients were likely to have complications from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
Researchers from Mayo Clinic believe they have found a better way to risk stratify some of their most fragile patients.
While 3-D printing has been around since the mid-1980s, there is accumulating evidence that this technology has the potential to revolutionize the understanding and management of heart conditions.
GE Healthcare and Getinge Group announced the U.S. launch of a new, highly flexible angiography solution for surgery, interventional and hybrid operating room (OR) procedures at the Society for Vascular Surgery’s (SVS) 2016 annual meeting.