Heartlab's CardioNow Expands Installation Base to Include World's Leading Intravascular Ultrasound Core Laboratory.WESTERLY, R.I. -- Stanford's Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory deploys Heartlab's CardioNow internet-based image management solution for cardiovascular clinical trials. Heartlab, the world's leading designer and supplier of digital image and information networks for cardiology, today announced that the Stanford Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions has installed Heartlab's CardioNow DICOM (medical, standard) DICOM - (From Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine) A standard developed by ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) for communications between medical imaging devices. telecardiology and image management solution for cardiovascular device and drug studies at its Stanford Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory. The Stanford Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL CCAL Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living CCAL California Current CCAL Chondrocalcinosis ) will utilize CardioNow to streamline and expedite the receipt, tracking, archiving, and analysis of complex cardiac images from hospital investigator sites around the world. This installation represents the fourth cardiovascular core lab to endorse Heartlab's CardioNow web-based solution for clinical trial image management. Other leading cardiovascular core labs already utilizing CardioNow include the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), Brigham & Womens Angiographic Core Lab (Boston) and The University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. Shands Cardiovascular Imaging Core Laboratories (Jacksonville). Heartlab's web-based CardioNow technology enables hospital investigator sites to easily share DICOM studies required by certain cardiovascular drug and device clinical trails. Within minutes of initial patient enrollment, study images can be transferred electronically from investigator sites to angiographic and ultrasound core labs anywhere in the world for analysis. Additionally, these studies can be made available online for simultaneous review by other stakeholders such as clinical event committee members, safety monitoring board members and trial sponsors. "Clinical trials brought online with CardioNow provide trial sponsors, investigator sites and core labs with tremendous benefits compared to the traditional information management methods. Heartlab's technology eliminates the physical mailing, tracking, archiving and analyzing of angiograms, echocardiograms or intravascular ultrasound studies. It can shave weeks or months off the duration of a clinical trial and helps decrease time to market for new drugs and devices that require clinical trails with imaging endpoints," commented Heartlab CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Robert Petrocelli. "We are extremely excited that the world's leading intravascular ultrasound core laboratory will be utilizing the benefits offered by our CardioNow technology." Additional information on Heartlab's CardioNow image management solution for clinical trials can be obtained at http://www.heartlab.com/cardionow.htm. About Heartlab Heartlab is the world's leading designer and supplier of digital image and information networks for Cardiology. Named one of America's fastest-growing private companies for the fourth year in a row by Inc. magazine, Heartlab develops application software and integrates systems using industry-standard computer hardware, including Heartlab's own StoreSafe(R) DVD-R (DVD-Recordable) A write-once (read only) DVD disc for both movies and data endorsed by the DVD Forum. DVD-Rs are often called "DVD Dash Rs" or "DVD Minus Rs" to distinguish them from the competing "Plus R" format (see DVD+R). archiving and Oracle's database technology. Heartlab's Encompass(TM) network gives cardiologists rapid access to imaging exam and report information, enables cardiology centers to operate more efficiently, and provides robust protection for critical patient data. Heartlab's Encompass networks are installed in more than 225 of the nation's leading heart centers. The company's CardioNow image management solution for clinical trials has been utilized by leading cardiovascular core labs and cardiovascular device and drug companies to expedite the sharing, tracking and analysis of complex cardiac images for over 25 multi-center clinical trails including drug-eluting stent, bare metal stent, as well as distal protection device studies. For more information, visit www.Heartlab.com. About Stanford Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions Founded in 1994 by Drs. Fitzgerald and Yock yock Slang intr.v. yocked, yock·ing, yocks To laugh or joke, especially boisterously. n. A loud laugh or joke. [Imitative.] , the Stanford Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions serves as a resource for both scientific and technologic growth in the field of cardiovascular medicine. With expertise in the field of quantitative coronary ultrasound (QCU QCU Quality Control Unit ) analysis and quantitative coronary angiography coronary angiography Interventional cardiology A diagnostic technique in which a radiocontrast is injected directly into the coronary arteries, allowing visualization and quantification of stenosis and/or obstruction. (QCA QCA - Quantum-dot Cellular Automata ), the center's state-of-the-art core imaging laboratory, known as the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL), has been actively involved with a number of large multi-center trials, including the NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. sponsored trials, BARI and SCRIP scrip, temporary substitute for money, securities, or other valuable claims. Business enterprises and municipalities have at times, especially when short of cash, paid employees in scrip, and communities have facilitated trade by using it. . The QCU laboratory is the world's leading IVUS IVUS Intravascular ultrasound, see there core lab, with participation in over 45 U.S. and international multi-center trials including ABACAS, DESIRE, SIRIUS, TAXUS, ENDEAVOR and FUTURE. The center includes over 13 staff physicians including Dr. Yasuhiro Honda who serves as the associate director, three research and data coordinators, one bioinformatics specialist, and two administrative assistants. For more information visit http://ccal.stanford.edu/. |
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