November 9, 2011 – Abiomed, a provider of heart support technologies, announced results of an economic study at the annual 2011 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference. The economic study demonstrated that Impella significantly reduced major adverse events at an incremental cost per quality-adjusted life year considered to be cost-effective for advanced cardiovascular technologies. Quality of life benefits included an increase in ejection fraction of over 20 percent and an improvement in New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III and Class IV heart failure of over 50 percent.

November 9, 2011 – Siemens Healthcare announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding equity of MobileMD Inc., of Yardley, Pa., a provider of health information exchange (HIE) solutions.

November 9, 2011 – PETNET Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., has entered into a nationwide commercial agreement with Eli Lilly and Company that grants Siemens PETNET Solutions the right to manufacture and distribute Lilly’s molecular imaging agent, which is currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.

November 8, 2011 — Biosensors International Group Ltd. announced final results of the AXXESS PLUS trial, which demonstrated the long-term efficacy and safety of the Axxess stent for patients with coronary bifurcation lesions. The device is a self-expanding bifurcation stent that releases Biolimus A9 from an abluminal biodegradable polymer coating.

November 8, 2011 – Boston Scientific reports clinical endpoint data from its PLATINUM Long Lesion trial, demonstrating excellent outcomes for the Promus Element everolimus-eluting platinum chromium (PtCr) stent system in patients with long coronary lesions. Results were presented today by Paul S. Teirstein, M.D., of the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif., and co-principal investigator of the trial, at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium in San Francisco.

November 7, 2011 — This year’s annual meeting of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), is changing its name to “EUROECHO & other Imaging Modalities.”

November 7, 2011 – Abbott announced the company's schedule of key data presentations at the 23rd annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, to be held Nov. 7 – 11 in San Francisco. New data will be presented on two of Abbott's key investigational products: the MitraClip system and the Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS). One-year data for the Xience Prime everolimus-eluting coronary stent system, recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will also be presented. In addition, long-term data will be presented from the SPIRIT III and SPIRIT IV trials comparing Abbott's Xience V everolimus-eluting coronary stent system to the Taxus express paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system.