Mennen brings Horizon Angio to ACC, partners with ScImage

Mennen Medical at the American College of Cardiology meeting this week showcased its FDA approved Horizon Angio patient monitoring and documentation system designed for interventional cardiologists and radiologists.
   
Horizon Angio is a computerized medical device that analyzes a full range of patient physiological parameters during interventional peripheral arterial analysis procedures, while performing a range of monitoring functions. Measurement and documentation capabilities include a full set of peripheral diagrams with visual stenosis depiction for head, neck, leg and arm right and left sides, carotid, trunk and renal diagrams, Mennen said.
   
For electronic documentation, the Horizon Angio offers reporting, custom physician reports, ADT interfacing, HL7 and XML data exports.
   
In other news, Mennen Medical announced a partnership with ScImage Inc. for the integration and co-marketing of their cardiology products as a complete, integrated solution. Among the combined capabilities are the live viewing of prior images during cath lab procedures and fully integrated multimodality DICOM worklists.
   
Under the agreement, the companies will offer digital hemodynamic multi-modality for sale throughout the U.S. Mennen will take the point on sales.

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