Feature | Jeanne-Marie Philips and Steven Washer

In October, they gave us fair warning: “If the Deficit Reduction Act goes through…facilities will buy less and less expensive products,” said one participant. Others echoed this, and now the river of anxiety has morphed into a tsunami. With the DRA here, we re-visit the issue, questioning an industry cross-section to find some surprising issues hiding in the shadows.

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Feature | Richard Rogoski

Just how many deaths each year can be directly attributed to vulnerable plaque (VP) is still being studied. But researchers and clinicians are not underestimating the danger that may be lurking inside an arterial wall.

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

The state of cardiology care, today and for the future, paints a glowing — and growing — picture. Whether from echo, EKG ...

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Dayton Heart Hospital (DHH) is a 47-bed facility located in Dayton, OH, that provides a full array of cardiovascular ...

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Feature | Ryan Hiett

There’s not much about The Wisconsin Heart Hospital (TWHH) that isn’t on the cutting edge of cardiovascular technology ...

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

In the new order of the day, many experts believe that CT angiography (CTA) will replace invasive cardiac ...

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Feature | Leatrice Ford

On Friday, April 13, 2007, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released Proposed Inpatient Rules for 2008. Highlights of the proposed rules related to cardiovascular reimbursement include:

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The three hospitals of the Valley Health system in northwestern Virginia have improved the quality and efficiency of cardiac care by installing Cardiac Science’s Pyramis system to manage data from its diagnostic cardiology devices and to integrate this data with central admission, order and billing systems.

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July 13, 2007 – ScImage, a leading enterprise imaging and information management company, announced today that the ...

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The FDA has cleared the Cordis Enterprise Vascular Reconstruction Device and Delivery System under the Humanitarian Device Exemption.

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July 12, 2007 - TeraRecon announced it has achieved greater than 100 percent sales bookings growth for the U.S. and ...

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Navigational Ablation Catheter Features Microtensioning System The EZ Steer NAV Bi-Directional Catheter is a ...

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July 13, 2007 - Biotronik announced that it recently completed the enrollment of the ProLimus I First-In-Man trial to ...

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GE Healthcare introduced its ViewPoint Vascular comprehensive ultrasound data management solution for vascular labs at the Society of Vascular Surgeons (SVS)/Society of Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) annual meeting in Baltimore, MD.

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP July 11, 2007 - General Electric Co. and Abbott Laboratories announced they ...

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