1. VentriPoint Diagnostics

... of the right and left ventricles in only minutes more than the time needed for a routine echocardiogram. VentriPoint will deliverthese critical measurements via a Web-based service for a transactional ...

2. Siemens' Comprehensive Solutions for Echocardiography: ACC.10
(Company News/Siemens Healthcare)

... “Using the ACUSON SC2000 system, we see a considerable decrease of examination time; traditional echocardiograms can take up to one hour. Thus, we are able to arrive more quickly at the diagnosis, at the ...

3. ACC.10: Toshiba Highlights Ultrasound Cardiac Capabilities
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

... use bubble based contrast agents that help to provide better tissue definition on difficult-to-image patients during echocardiograms. Differential Tissue Harmonic Imaging for the better imaging of difficult-to-image ...

4. Cardiac Imaging Offers Alternative to Cardiology Cuts
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

... Nuclear Cardiac/ SPECT, EBCT/Calcium Scoring, Transthoracic Echocardiogram, Stress Echocardiogram, Transesophageal Echocardiogram, and Diagnostic Left-Heart Catheterization studies. Using evidence-based ...

5. PD2i Selected for Use in Cardiac Screening
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... is considered viable. Ten percent of the estimated seven million individuals fitting this description are expected to participate. Vicor's PD2i nonlinear algorithm will be used along with ECG and echocardiogram ...

6. Recommendation - Dual Screening Tests for Heart Defects in Athletes
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... weight and blood pressure measurements and listened for unusual heartbeats or murmurs. They also conducted an echocardiogram - a cardiac ultrasound, or ECHO - to measure heart size and pumping function ...

7. AET's Telemedicine Solution Provides Real-Time Echocardiogram
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

AET's Telemedicine Solution Provides Real-Time Echocardiogram Consult, Saves Costly Transport of Newborn Infant Telemedicine solution provider AET completed a first of its kind, real-time remote diagnosis ...

8. EMR- critical to better healthcare
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

... appointment schedules, X-rays, ultrasounds, CT and MRI scans, echocardiograms  is instantly available to caregivers via more than 16,000 computer terminals on Mayo’s three campuses. The efficiencies created ...

9. St. Rose Hospital Cardiologists Improving Care with McKesson Technology
(Company News/McKesson Corp.)

... access to echocardiogram and EKG reports, thanks to a new cardiovascular information solution (CVIS) from McKesson . The 163-bed, acute-care hospital has successfully implemented McKesson `s Horizon Cardiology ...

10. Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. Completes Enrollment Of CaRES Registry to Further Evaluate DEFINITY in Patients with Suboptimal Echocardiograms
(Company News/Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc)

... suboptimal, unenhanced echocardiogram. "As the first, multicenter safety registry of its kind to be conducted in the U.S., the results from CaRES will provide important clinical information about the ...

11. GE Healthcare Announces Data From Phase III Study Of Adreview In Heart Failure Patients
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... for cardiac death over two years was 98.2%.1. "These data suggest that AdreView imaging may make it possible to assess the nerves of the heart, which cannot be done using tests such as echocardiograms ...

12. Agfa's IMPAX At Beaumont Hospitals To Integrate Cardiology , Radiology Images and Data
(Company News/Agfa HealthCare)

... exams annually. "The Agfa HealthCare IMPAX Cardiovascular system will help support echocardiogram and vascular studies at our hospital, including on-site and remote display of clinical images," says Paul ...

13. New Lantheus Study Finds Significant Survival Benefit for Critically Ill Patients
(Company News/Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc)

... of echocardiogram, uses a transducer on a person’s chest to send high frequency ultrasound waves through the chest wall to the heart to create pictures of the heart that physicians can then analyze.1 DEFINITY ...

14. Lantheus Medical Imaging To Present New Cardiac Imaging Data at ACC 2009
(Company News/Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc)

... suboptimal echocardiograms, DEFINITY® enables physicians to visualize the borders of the heart more clearly.2,3 In 2008, Lantheus announced the initiation of CaRES (Contrast Echocardiography REgistry ...

15. New Study finds that Contrast Echocardiography with DEFINITY Improves Patient Management
(Company News/Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc)

... inpatients and 87 outpatients) with technically difficult studies who underwent a rest echocardiogram and received DEFINITY for endocardial enhancement from June to October 2007 were enrolled in the study. ...

16. Windber Medical Center leading digital revolution
(Company News/Who's Buying What)

... the digital age. Windber’s magnetic resonance imaging, mammography, echocardiograms and ultrasound studies all feature digital equipment. A new 16-slice computed tomography scanner and digital X-ray station ...

17. Caritas Christi Health Care System Chooses McKesson for Enterprise-wide Cardiovascular Information Access
(Company News/McKesson Corp.)

... catheterizations and interventions, 6,000 vascular studies, 22,000 echocardiograms and 95,000 ECGs. “We wanted a CVIS system that would seamlessly connect all our clinicians throughout the enterprise,” ...

18. US FDA to alert doctors about imaging drugs' risks
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2008)

... identify abnormalities. Millions of people have echocardiograms each year, but only a small group of them receive Definity or Optison, FDA spokeswoman Julie Zawisza said. Bristol-Myers spokesman ...

19. Philips' Save an Athlete campaign provides simple tests to find cardiac conditions in student athletes
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... (ECG) or echocardiogram (echo or cardiac ultrasound). Preventative cardiac testing helps detect these types of conditions. Most athletes, their friends and family are unaware of these conditions unless ...

20. Appropriateness criteria for performance of cardiac ultrasound exams released
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... Criteria review common scenarios found in clinical practice and address the appropriateness of ordering echocardiograms for each situation. The Criteria address a broad range of clinical situations in ...