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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

Breast Cancer Test Introduced

The Food and Drug Administration issued marketing clearance to Invitrogen Corporation for the company's new genetic breast cancer test. The SPOT-Light HER2 CISH kit is indicated to determine the number of HER2 gene copies in malignant tissue. more...

July 17, 2008 Related topics: Product Approval & Certification, New Technology & Innovation, Laboratory Equipment, Diagnostic

New Robotic Arm Aids Stroke Patients

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

HERmark Breast Cancer Assay Commercially Available

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

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...

CoHesion Module Approved by the Feds

A cooperative product, the CoHesion 3D Visualization Module, was granted marketing clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug...

New Device to Treat Vertigo Approved

The new Omniax device, designed to both diagnose and treat patients with vertigo, was cleared for marketing by...

New Technology Detects Breast Malignancy

A research team from the Mayo Clinic has developed a new technology for breast imaging. Preliminary data indicates...

JAMA Study Notes Benefits of Drug Eluting Stents

A study that was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association describes the outcomes associated...

Carestream Technology Deployed at Geisinger Health System

The Neuroscience Institute at Geisinger Health System is deploying the KODAK In-Vivo Multispectral Imaging System FX. This tool...

JAMA Article Includes Warning About RFID

A study that was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes that radio frequency...

MEDIHONEY Product Success Reported, OTC Approval

MEDIHONEY Wound and Burn Dressing, a product manufactured by Derma Sciences was used to treat a patient with...

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