February 2015
Notice of Issuance of fourth haptic patent, number 8,956,304: CARDIOVASCULAR HAPTIC HANDLE SYSTEM
March 2015
CardiaTouch presented data at the 2015 American College of Cardiology meeting in San Diego demonstrating that blinded physician and non-physician subjects can palpate and distinguish blood flow characteristics, contact force, and intra-cardiac pressure waveforms from digitized physiologic signals.
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April 2015
CardiaTouch completed animal studies demonstrating that the CardiaTouch Haptic System provides a real-time tactile representation of catheter: tissue contact force amplitude in a swine model during radiofrequency ablation of cardiac tissue and seamlessly interface with commercialized contact force sensing systems.
May 2015
CardiaTouch joined Evergreen Medical Technologies at the 2015 International Heart Rhythm Society meeting in Boston, MA to demonstrate the Haptic Handle.
December 2015
CardiaTouch’s animal data was accepted for publication in the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology: Tactile Feedback Provides Real Time In Vivo Tissue: Catheter Contact Force Information During Cardiac Radiofrequency Ablation.
January 2016
CardiaTouch presented initial animal data at the 2016 Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, Orlando, FL.
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June 2016
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology accepted CardiaTouch’s data demonstrating that blinded subject’s tactile motor reaction time is statistically significantly faster than visual motor reaction time of subjects reacting to a simple on-off visual display
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Summer 2016
Enrolled first dozen patients in IRB-approved protocol “Transseptal Puncture Haptic Feedback System†at State University of NY Stony Brook’s Cardiac Electrophysiology Lab, and performed physician survey using acquired waveforms during in-human transseptal puncture for AF ablation.
December 2017
Data from IRB protocol on Transseptal and Epicardial Haptic Feedback System accepted by Cardiovascular Research Technologies 2018 and for publication in JACC Interventions.
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January 2018
CardiaTouch’s technology accepted by CRT INNOVATIONS 2018 competition as finalist for presentation in international symposium in Washington, DC.
February 2018
Notice of Allowance for 5th Haptic patent: OPERATING SYSTEM WITH HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE HAND-HELD SURGICAL INSTRUMENT.
March 2018
Dr. Schecter interviewed at Cardiovascular Research Technologies 2018 meeting:
http://www.cardiotube.net/video-detail/innovation-cardiatouch-control-haptic-system
June 2018
IRB approved protocol submitted to Northwell Hospital Network, New York for enrollment of patients undergoing electrophysiology procedures and transseptal puncture.
July 2018
US Patent issued 10,013,082
August 2018
Dr. Schecter issued 25th United States Patent No. 10,045,701: Implantable Hemodynamic Monitor and Methods for Use Therewith
September 2018
Publication of manuscript Haptics and The Heart: Force and tactile feedback system for cardiovascular interventions. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2018 Jun 4. pii: S1553-8389(18)30239-2. doi: 10.1016/j.carrev.2018.05.017.