Rochester General Health System has acquired Carestream Health's Cardiology PACS to integrate in its radiology PACS and its EMR. The integrated product, CARESTREAM Vue for Cardiology, offers review of echocardiography, cardiac cath and ...
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Welch Allyn has commenced a global restructuring program to reshape its business and realign resources over the next three years to meet the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing global healthcare environment. The global ...
Biotronik has reported that the first US patient has been implanted with its Lumax 740 dual-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Lumax 740 dual-chamber ICD features SMART detection, which discriminate between atrial and ...
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Maquet Cardiovascular, a subsidiary of Swedish Getinge Group, has reported positive results from IABP- SHOCK II trial of its intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABC) therapy, designed to reduce the workload of the heart and improve ...
Tags: IABC, percutaneous coronary intervention, AMI, Maquet Cardiovascular
Helix Medical, a division of the Freudenberg Group, has completed the acquisition of MedVenture Technology for an undisclosed sum. MedVenture's commercial products include minimally invasive surgical and catheter-based devices used in ...
Vanguard Health Systems, a developer of healthcare delivery networks in urban markets, has entered into a collaboration agreement to deploy AirStrip Technologies' mHealth platform. Under the agreement, Vanguard will implement the ...
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Hospital Sisters Health System(HSHS)will implement the Digisonics DigiView CVIS solution at a fourth facility,St.Anthony's Memorial Hospital,in Effingham,Ill.for their echo(adult and pediatric),vascular,nuclear and cath studies. ...
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Best US Hospitals U.S. News & World Report has released its 23rd annual Best Hospitals rankings. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is #1 on the U.S. News Honor Roll this year, displacing Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, ...
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Merit Medical Systems has gained US marketing rights for its ONE Snare Endovascular Snare system, following the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval. Single-loop snare system is designed to provide both accuracy and reliability ...
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Developer of innovative vascular access products Catheter Connections announced that it teamed up with Merit Medical Systems, a manufacturer and marketer of proprietary disposable devices used primarily in cardiology and radiology. As per ...
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Merck has issued an update on the development programs for vorapaxar, extended release niacin/laropirprant(MK524A,Tredaptive) and anacetrapib in association with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich, Bavaria. ...
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Merit Medical Systems,a manufacturer of disposable medical devices for use in endoscopy and cardiology,has entered into a stock purchase agreement to buy Thomas Medical Products for$167m in cash. Thomas Medical,GE Healthcare's US ...
FUJIFILM Medical Systems will display its web-based cardiovascular solution at the Radiological Society of North America(RSNA),which will be held at Chicago,until 30 November 2012. The Synapse Cardiovascular 5.0 solution,which features ...
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Telemedicine uses a variety of electronic communications media,ranging from teleconferencing to image-sharing to remote patient monitoring,to provide clinical services to a patient.As the American Telemedicine Association points ...
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St Jude Medical has unveiled a real-time cardiac navigation and visualization technology to evaluate vascular and cardiac anatomy on a recorded fluoroscopic image instead of live fluoroscopy. The three-dimensional MediGuide technology ...