Boston Scientific will pay Cordis $716.3 million to resolve more than a dozen lawsuits over the Palmaz infringement suit relating to Boston Scientifics NIR stent and several other cardiology cases relating to patents in the Ding, Kastenhofer, Palmaz and Fontirroche patent families, and exchanging paid-up licenses for certain intellectual properties.

A recent survey found that Americans have mixed feelings on the appropriate roles for various healthcare interest groups in Washington, D.C.

Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committees markup of HR 3200Americans Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009Reps. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. and Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, offered, and then withdrew, an amendment to close the in-office ancillary services exception for advanced medical imaging under the Stark law.

Vida Diagnostics, a developer of quantitative imaging software for the analysis of pulmonary diseases, has appointed Susan A. Wood, PhD, as president and CEO.

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Theyre everywhere. Mobile computers are on the move in the ER and OR, atop carts as physicians make rounds, and in the hands of nurses logging vital signs at the bedside or dispensing meds. With the growing adoption of EMRs, mobile computing use among hospital-based clinicians has moved beyond standalone, knowledge-based applications such as drug reference databases and medical calculators to systems that can increase clinician productivity, reduce errors and eliminate inefficient processes.

Amidst the excitement of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Francisco this week comes the news that its co-founder, Martin B. Leon, MD, is once again being investigated for potential conflicts of interest and unreported income from medical device makers.

The 21st annual scientific symposium of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting will open on Monday in San Francisco. Gregg W. Stone, MD, immediate past-chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, which sponsors TCT, highlighted some of the trials and important sessions at next weeks show.