Clinical decision support (CDS) software has been discussed for years as a way to help clinicians follow best practice ...
A new study determined that the Watchman left atrial appendage closure device is more cost-effective than warfarin and non-warfarin oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for stroke reductions in non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients.
The Medicines Company announced Dec. 18 it has entered into a purchase agreement pursuant to which certain subsidiaries of Mallinckrodt plc will acquire The Medicines Company’s global portfolio of hemostasis products.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
A new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) offers insight from nearly 200 healthcare executives (C-Suite, administrators, directors and vice presidents) on their population health initiatives, and their current and future approach to population health IT solutions and consultants.
Johns Hopkins has demonstrated in animals that applying a pacemaker’s mild electrical shocks to push the heart in and out of normal synchronized contraction for part of each day may be an effective way to slow down the progression of heart failure.
Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle announced that the second annual Data Science Bowl will call on the global data science community to create a set of steps, or algorithms, to help transform diagnosis of heart disease. Through a partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), participants in the 90-day competition will be given magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images and asked to develop an algorithm to automate the measurements that are key indicators of heart disease.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
January 4, 2016 — In a comparison of bleeding complications and mortality between transradial and transfemoral stent ...
January 4, 2016 — Living with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) is challenging, but the chore of treating the rare ...
December 31, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices ...
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
December 31, 2015 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Biotronik's Astron Peripheral Self-Expanding ...
Hitachi Aloka Medical America is proud to partner with AccreditCoach to provide customers assistance with accreditation and add value to their ultrasound purchase.
December 29, 2015 — Heart attack patients who had previously undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery were less ...
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
December 29, 2015 — The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) applauded the U.S. House and ...
December 29, 2015 — BioVentrix in mid-December announced the successful completion of the 30th clinical case using the ...
December 29, 2015 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) launched the new Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (LAAO) ...