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July 22, 2008 – To recognize excellence in the use of healthcare information technology, McKesson yesterday announced the winners of its eighth annual VIP Award competition, which included Provincial Health Contact Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba for its program to better manage patients with chronic diseases, specifically congestive heart failure.
July 21, 2008
Technology
July 22, 2008 - Osmetech today said it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its eSensor Warfarin Sensitivity Test to be used as an aid in the identification of patients at risk for increased sensitivity to the widely used blood-thinning drug, warfarin. The company also said the FDA clearance includes its second-generation eSensor XT-8 molecular diagnostics platform.
July 21, 2008News
July 21, 2008 – Toshiba America Medical Systems said today that four live cases using the Infinix CF-i/BP will be showcased at the Pediatric and Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS-AICS) held in Las Vegas July 20-23.
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Feature | Information Technology
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
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July 18, 2008 - A Federal lawsuit filed in Birmingham, Alabama July 18 charges pharmaceutical company Actavis Totowa ...
July 20, 2008News
July 17, 2008 – A new study reveals that, with dual-source computed tomography (DSCT), the dosage for a heart ...
July 20, 2008News
July 21, 2008 – The Premier healthcare alliance today became the first group purchasing organization (GPO) to endorse ...
July 20, 2008Sponsored Content
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
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July 17, 2008 - A new study reveals that, with dual-source computed tomography (DSCT), the effective dosage for a heart examination can be significantly lowered, in comparison to conventional CT. The study also demonstrated that stenoses can be diagnosed with similar high accuracy as with invasive X-ray angiography.
July 20, 2008News
July 17, 2008 - Omnicell Inc. and St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, MT, today said they installed an interface between the hospital’s Omnicell OptiFlex CL bar code inventory tracking system and its Philips Series IV physiomonitoring and information system.
July 16, 2008News
July 17, 2008 - Heart sounds provide valuable diagnostic information concerning the heart valves and hemodynamics of heart, but the poor sensitivity of human ears in the low frequency range makes this task difficult, so two researchers have created a computer-aided phonocardiogram (PCG) to analyze a digitized recordings of heart sounds.
July 16, 2008Sponsored Content
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When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
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July 16, 2008 - Earlier this week President Bush vetoed the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (HR 6331) because it excluded a 10.6 percent pay cut to doctors who treat patients in the Medicare program. However, on July 15 the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate voted overwhelmingly voted to override the veto.
July 15, 2008News
July 17, 2008 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. today said its Protea ultra-thin cobalt-alloy bare metal stent has excelled in animal studies, reportedly showing the Protea is statistically superior to one of the best and most deliverable cobalt-alloy bare metal stents on the market.
July 15, 2008News
July 16, 2008 - Stereotaxis Inc. said today the pediatric cardiology team at the Heart and Diabetes Center of North ...
July 15, 2008Sponsored Content
Case Study | Hemodynamic Monitoring Systems
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
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Feature | Dave Fornell
Clinicians spend a lot of time walking around hospitals looking for equipment, other staff members, and sometimes even their patients.
July 15, 2008Technology
St. Jude Medical Inc. offers the Merlin@home transmitter, an RF wireless technology that remotely monitors patients’ implanted cardiac devices. The transmitter supports the St. Jude Medical Current RF and Promote RF family of devices and works in conjunction with the St. Jude Medical data management system, Merlin.net Patient Care Network (PCN).
July 15, 2008News
July 16, 2008 - St. Jude Medical Inc. this week said it received FDA approval of the Merlin@home transmitter, an RF ...
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