Just one day after making their MyHeart Counts app publicly available, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine found 11,000 people had enrolled in their iPhone-enabled cardiovascular study.

Agfa HealthCare announced today the commercial launch of its Enterprise Imaging for Cardiology Suite and strategic relationship with TomTec to provide a unified cardiology diagnostic and clinical imaging solution. The solution will be on display at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2015 Scientific Session & Expo, March 14-16, 2015 in San Diego.

IT is a just a tool. It takes people to make IT effective. In complex organizations such as hospitals and healthcare systems, good or bad management may make or break adoption of EHRs. That was the hypothesis that researchers tested in a recent study.

EHRs promised a new era of transparency among specialists and subspecialists. But, have they lived up to that golden promise? Results from two surveys suggest otherwise.

Cardiologists and other clinicians might be wary of giving patients direct access to their EHR while they are in the hospital, but their concerns decreased after using it in a real-world setting, according to a study.

Apple launched an open-source project that will facilitate medical research, including an iPhone app for monitoring cardiovascular health.

Innovative technologies that facilitate patient-centered care can help reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease. With research support, those technologies can be implemented broadly.  

The American College of Cardiology has launched version 2.0 of their Guideline Clinical App. With the addition of the healthy lifestyle and obesity guidelines, the app now contains the full set of clinical prevention guidelines released by ACC/American Heart Association in 2013. These additions expand the collection of clinical guidelines in the App which already includes guidelines on assessment of cardiovascular risk, treatment of blood cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, heart failure and valvular heart disease.