HEARTLAB’S CARDIONOW SURPASSES 300 CUSTOMER MILESTONE

Heartlab, the world’s leading designer

• Press release
• WESTERLY, RI
• May 31, 2005 08:41

World’s leading heart centers, cardiovascular core imaging laboratories and trial sponsors converge on CardioNow network to expedite and streamline clinical trial image management.

Heartlab, the world's leading designer and supplier of digital image and information networks for cardiology, today announced that more than 300 heart centers active in cardiovascular drug and device clinical research are now online with Heartlab's CardioNow. CardioNow's global reach extends to the world's leading heart centers including sites in the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Latin America.

"This achievement is a testament to the global reach and significant interest in Heartlab's CardioNow solution for clinical trial image management," commented Heartlab CEO Robert Petrocelli. "With more than 300 of the leading heart centers and seven of the world's leading cardiovascular imaging core labs online with CardioNow, we are uniquely positioned to provide trial sponsors with a proven, web-based solution for expediting and streamlining the entire clinical trial image management process which can help shorten product development timelines and expedite speed to market for new cardiovascular drugs and devices."

The web-based CardioNow technology facilitates clinical research by enabling easy sharing of complex cardiac images and data among investigator sites, core labs, and trial sponsors. Within minutes of patient enrollment, complete DICOM studies can be transferred electronically from investigator sites to cardiovascular core labs for prompt review and analysis. Automated receipt, tracking and digital archiving of studies simplifies management tasks and ensures that data is readily accessible online, for significantly faster recall, review and comparison of new and old studies. Additionally, these studies can be made available online via Heartlab's secure website for simultaneous review by other stakeholders such as clinical event committee members, safety monitoring board members and trial sponsors.

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 four years in a row by Inc. magazine, Heartlab's Encompass networks are installed in the nation's leading heart centers, giving cardiologists rapid access to imaging exam and report information and providing robust protection for critical patient data. The company's CardioNow image management solution for clinical trials is used by leading hospital investigator sites, cardiovascular core labs and cardiovascular device and drug companies to expedite the sharing, tracking and analysis of complex cardiac images for multi-center clinical trails with imaging endpoints. For more information, visit www.Heartlab.com.