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Medical Devices & Products

System Ensures Awareness of Special Safety Risks

A new tool, the Clinical Action Safety Plan Evaluating Risk (CASPER) deployed at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle ensures that all clinicians are aware of any special safety precautions. In addition, this new rule provides the clinicians with relevant information about how to manage these considerations, as described in the report from Health Data Management. more...

July 22, 2008 Related topics: New Technology & Innovation, Quality, Safety, Errors, Pediatrics

Soft Tissue Ablation System Cleared

A new ultrasound system that ablates soft tissue received marketing approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The Sonatherm 600i High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Soft Tissue Ablation System is manufactured by Misonix, Incorporated. This device is indicated to treat patients with soft tissue lesions. more...

July 21, 2008 Related topics: Product Approval & Certification, Imaging, Surgery

Plug and Play Systems Support Device Interoperability

The Technology Review includes an article that describes new plug-and-play systems under development at Massachusetts General Hospital. Creation...

Intel Personal Health System Cleared

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new personal in-home health monitoring system manufactured by computer chip giant...

Masimo PVI Tool Validated

A study published in last month’s issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia indicates that that the new...

New Contrast Delivery System Launched

Covidien announced the launch of a new contrast delivery system, the Optistar Elite Contrast Delivery System. The product...

Two New Laptops Introduced

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced the launch of two new tablet PCs. The two new Lifebook systems both...

Breast Cancer Test Introduced

The Food and Drug Administration issued marketing clearance to Invitrogen Corporation for the company’s new genetic breast cancer...

Heart Device Monitor Approved, Simplifies Patient Monitoring

A new remote monitoring device from St. Jude Medical, Incorporated was granted marketing clearance from the Food and...

Grants for EHRs Offered to Practices in Florida

Sevocity is offering small and midsize physician practices, as well as community health centers in Florida with subsidies,...

Breast Cancer Detected with SER Imaging

Researchers from the University of California at San Francisco examined use of a new modality to detect recurrent...

Speech Vendors Ranked by KLAS

The Speech Recognition report was recently released from KLAS; it assesses both front-and back-end vendors of speech recognition...

HERmark Breast Cancer Assay Commercially Available

A new diagnostic test to assess HER2 status in patients with breast cancer will be launched next week...

New Robotic Arm Aids Stroke Patients

The journal Stroke includes an article describing a new nonrobotic device called the Sensorimotor Active Rehabilitation Training (SMART)...

Insight Scores Contract with L.A. County

A long-term agreement was completed between Los Angeles County and InSight Health Services. Through this deal, InSight will...

Catheter for Small Peripheral Vessel Imaging Launched

Boston Scientific unveiled a new catheter designed to support imaging of small peripheral vessels, the Atlantis 018 peripheral...

MITA Report Validates Use of Imaging Systems

A new report from the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) titled “The Value of Medical Imaging: Improving...

Biomarker Based Sepsis Test to be Launched

A new biomarker-based sepsis test will be launched (pdf) before the end of 2008. The SIQNATURE, from SIRS...

New Glucose Management System from J&J Approved

The new OneTouch Ping, designed and manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Animas, was approved by the Food...

Contura MLB Approved Cleared for Marketing

SenoRX, Incorporated received an additional marketing approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s Contura MLB...

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