MINNEAPOLIS, & NICE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at Cardiostim 2008, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that all Vision 3D™ implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators (CRT-Ds) are now compatible with the Medtronic CareLink® Network. More than 250,000 patients at 2,400 clinics in 20 countries currently are followed remotely via the Medtronic CareLink Network, which allows physicians to perform a complete analysis of all the device- and patient-specific cardiac data stored within Medtronic implantable cardiac devices. With this announcement, all current models of Medtronic ICDs, CRT-Ds and pacemakers are compatible with the Medtronic CareLink Network, which has registered more than 1 million patient data transmissions since its inception.
