Monday, April 16
Concerned about the vulnerability of wireless medical devices to mischievous or ill-intentioned hackers, researchers have produced a prototype firewall.
Monday, April 16
Toshiba America Medical Systems’ Infinix-i bi-plane cardiovascular x-ray system will be used during two live pediatric cases at the Pediatric and Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS-AICS), April 15-18, in Chicago.
Monday, April 02
The department of radiology at the University of Colorado School Of Medicine in Denver has developed a pocket-sized reference card to communicate the effective doses and radiation risks of common adult imaging studies, according to an update published in the April issue of the
Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Monday, March 26
Toshiba America Medical Systems showed its volume CT system paired with Vital Images software and vascular x-ray system at recent scientific meetings.
Monday, March 26
TeraRecon released version 4.4.7 of its iNtuition enterprise image management system with support for quantitative volumetric cardiac imaging, at the 61st annual scientific session and expo of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), in Chicago.
Friday, March 23
The FDA has given the 510(k) nod to Zoll’s monitor/defibrillator designed for emergency medical services, the X Series.
Monday, March 05
Siemens Healthcare has released the Acuson S1000 ultrasound system.
Thursday, February 16
The Center for Transforming Healthcare, the care-improvement arm of the Joint Commission, has announced the availability of a new means for reducing the risk of surgeons operating on the wrong body parts or patients. Called the Targeted Solutions Tool (TST), the system is available to all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals.
Tuesday, January 24
A new application (app) for Android devices allows nine million Kaiser Permanente patients to access their own medical information on mobile devices through a mobile-optimized website. Mobile device users can get full access to their information from the Kaiser Permanente health record system with the mobile-optimized version of kp.org.
Tuesday, January 10
Opto Circuits of Bengaluru, India, has earned FDA approval to sell a new Holter monitor through its American subsidiary, Cardiac Science of Bothell, Wash.
Tuesday, January 03
Philips Healthcare is bringing its HeartNavigator interventional imaging tool to the U.S.
Monday, December 19
eRad, a subsidiary of outpatient imaging provider RadNet, has added Radar, a critical test results management platform that provides physicians with tools to communicate, confirm and document all critical and abnormal test results, to its portfolio.
Friday, October 14
SonoSite of Bothell, Wash., has released a new product for monitoring patients' hemodynamic profiles in the hospital. Called the BioZ Cardio Profile, the system offers anesthesiologists a new tool for continuous, noninvasive fluid management.
Friday, October 14
Mirada Medical is unveiling its Universal PET/MR at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) annual meeting being held in Birmingham, England, Oct. 16 to 18.
Thursday, October 13
Thomson Reuters of Ann Arbor, Mich., has launched the Infection Xpert, a clinical intelligence dashboard to help manage and reduce hospital-acquired infections, capture and submit mandated infection reporting metrics, as well as analyze hospital infection data.
Tuesday, October 11
St. Jude Medical of St. Paul, Minn., has launched Merlin.net Patient Care Network version 5.0, which includes updates to the web-based repository of patient and implantable device data that provides physicians with access to alerts and data transmission to EHRs.
Tuesday, October 04
Biotronik has released an online Quick View report to provide physicians with information on patients using the company's home monitoring technology.
Monday, October 03
Philips Healthcare introduced its latest telehealth software, Philips Telehealth Solutions, at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice Annual Meeting and Exposition this week in Las Vegas.
Thursday, September 01
Verathon has introduced its Heartscape 3D ECG system with an 80-lead vest in Europe.
Monday, August 29
Royal Philips Electronics has released IntelliVue MX40, a new wearable monitor for ambulatory patients and those in transit.
