St. Jude Brings Remote Monitoring System To Pacemakers
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
St. Jude Medical's Merlin.net Patient Care Network monitoring system now supports all three types of cardiac rhythm management devices, following FDA approval of St. Jude's Accent RF pacemaker and Anthem RF cardiacresynchronization therapy pacemaker (CRT-P)
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