Home Editor's Blog News Special Reports Directory Events Advertise Submit Your News About Us Guides News by Zone I News by Date I News by Category   Home 2012 News Index w/c 23 April 2012 Free Newsletter Register for our Free Newsletters Zones Analysis, Inspection and Laboratory Assisted/Independent Living Clinical and Nursing Equipment Design and Manufacture of Medical Equipment Diagnostics Equipment, Monitoring and Test Education, Training and Professional Services Health Education and Patient Management Health Estates Management Healthcare Support and Information Services Hygiene and Infection Control IT and Communications in Healthcare Materials Medical Device Technology Research and Development Safety and Security View All Other Carouselweb publications   News By Date RCGP launches GP e-learning course focused on multiple sclerosis Institutes, Royal Colleges and Trade Associations : 27 April, 2012 The diagnosis and management of multiple sclerosis in general practice are being addressed in a new online learning course launched by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society.   [ View Detail ] Varian Medical Systems partners Siemens Healthcare to advance radiotherapies Radiosurgery and radiotheraphy equipment : 27 April, 2012 Varian Medical Systems signs strategic global partnership with Siemens Healthcare to provide advanced diagnostic and therapeutic solutions and services for treating cancer with image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery.   [ View Detail ] Philips and MAQUET alliance extends cost-effective hybrid OR solutions X-ray equipment : 27 April, 2012 Philips and MAQUET is marking a milestone with 50th shipment of Philips' hybrid operating room (OR) with MAQUET's surgical table to Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.   [ View Detail ] Toshiba's AIDR 3D dose-reduction technology receives FDA clearance Computed tomography systems (CT) : 27 April, 2012 Toshiba America Medical Systems receives the FDA clearance of Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction 3D (AIDR 3D), the company's newest dose-reduction technology.   [ View Detail ] Texas Children's Hospital implements Omnicell G4 medication platform Pharmacy and medication equipment : 27 April, 2012 Texas Children's Hospital is implementing the Omnicell G4 platform in the hospital's newly opened 15-story landmark hospital, Texas Children's Pavilion for Women.   [ View Detail ] Cardiovascular ultrasound system enhances cath lab workflows Ultrasound equipment : 27 April, 2012 GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company receives FDA clearance and is making availale the latest version of the company's Vivid E9 cardiovascular ultrasound system.   [ View Detail ] First app store enables broad access to new tools for genetic data analysis Data storage and management : 26 April, 2012 Illumina is introducing BaseSpace Apps, a dedicated applications store for BaseSpace, the company's genomics cloud computing platform.   [ View Detail ] UKE installs Barco's clinical review displays for dental exams Displays and monitors : 26 April, 2012 The Center for Dental and Oral Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany, installs Barco's MDRC-2124 clinical review displays to ensure they retain the outstanding image quality throughout the imaging chain - from modality to display.   [ View Detail ] Boston Scientific receives CE Mark for Emerge PTCA dilatation catheter Catheters : 26 April, 2012 Boston Scientific receives CE Mark and plans the European market launch of the Emerge PTCA Dilatation Catheter.   [ View Detail ] Seaward earns Queen’s Award for Enterprise for biomedical test equipment Test equipment and testing systems : 26 April, 2012 International sales success for its Rigel Medical biomedical test equipment helps the compant to secure the Queen's Award for the Seaward Group.   [ View Detail ] Children's hospital benefits from new food ordering and management system Computer systems and servers : 26 April, 2012 Birmingham Children's Hospital is now rolling out a new electronic food ordering and management system which is set to revolutionise mealtimes on hospital wards being rolled out across the Trust, the system uses Panasonic Toughbooks and a Birmingham Children's Hospital concept that has been developed as a software application named 'Maple'.   [ View Detail ] BMI hospital is first in the UK to deploy spinal O-Arm imaging system Diagnostic imaging : 26 April, 2012 BMI The Clementine Churchill Hospital, which is part of BMI Healthcare, becomes the first hospital in the UK to acquire and implement the pioneering new spinal O-Arm Imaging System.   [ View Detail ] St James's University Hospital debuts clinical use of Agility multileaf collimator Radiosurgery and radiotheraphy equipment : 25 April, 2012 Using Agility, Elekta's latest MLC innovation, patients at St James's University Hospital are the first in the world to benefit from this modern advancement in the treatment of cancer.   [ View Detail ] CareFusion and Cerner integrate smart pump technologies to improve safety Pumps and dispensers : 25 April, 2012 CareFusion and Cerner are announcing the live limited commercial release of a new infusion pump connectivity solution at Oklahoma Heart Hospital, one of the USA's first all-digital hospitals exclusively focused on heart care.   [ View Detail ] Boston Scientific completes enrollment in Lotus aortic valve clinical trial Implants : 25 April, 2012 Boston Scientific completes enrollment in the REPRISE I clinical trial, which is designed to evaluate the acute safety of the Lotus Aortic Valve System, the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device of its kind for patients with severe aortic valve stenosis that is both fully repositionable and retrievable prior to release.   [ View Detail ] Smiths Medical releases innovative solution to improve pain management control Pain management : 25 April, 2012 Smiths Medical is launching the CADD-Solis pain management system version 3.0 with Programmed Intermittent Bolus (PIB) delivery in countries outside the United States.   [ View Detail ] Joslin Diabetes Center to study impact of intensive diabetes management on DPN Test kits and testing equipment : 25 April, 2012 NeuroMetrix is to support a clinical study entitled: 'Evaluation of the Effect of Intensive Diabetes Control Through Non-surgical Intensive Lifestyle Modifications and Weight Reduction on Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy' which will be conducted at the Joslin Diabetes Center and will involve 50 obese patients with diabetes.   [ View Detail ] Nordion plans Europe-focused Phase III clinical trial for liver cancer treatment Research studies : 25 April, 2012 Nordion is supporting an additional randomized, multi-centre Phase III clinical trial for TheraSphere, Nordion's yttrium-90 (Y-90) glass microsphere treatment for liver cancer.   [ View Detail ] Omnetics releases panel mounted latching micro-D connectors Connectors : 24 April, 2012 Omnetics Connector is launching the company's Latching Micro-D connectors with a new squeeze-latch system that offers significant advantages in making quick cable connections to rack and panel equipment.   [ View Detail ] Queen’s Hospital MES deal offers improved imaging quality benefits Managed Equipment Service (MES) : 24 April, 2012 Queen's Hospital, part of the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, installs an Artis zee biplane system from Siemens Healthcare.   [ View Detail ] Horiba publishes slide digitalisation validation data for traceability Microscopy equipment : 24 April, 2012 Horiba Medical publishes online a scientific validation study (Ref 1) of the compnay's new HemaCAM computer-assisted microscopy module for fully automated analysis of blood smears.   [ View Detail ] Carestream Health receives FDA clearance for new mobile x-ray system X-ray equipment : 24 April, 2012 Carestream receives US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-Ray System, and is now accepting orders from US healthcare facilities.   [ View Detail ] GE Healthcare partners NXT2B to develop compact cyclotron and PET tracer Positron emission tomography (PET) : 24 April, 2012 GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric, and NXT2B, a privately owned venture capital company, are entering into a joint financing agreement with the goal of developing a micro-scale radiotracer infrastructure including cyclotron and PET tracer production.   [ View Detail ] European trauma device market grows to be more than USD855m by 2016 Market research : 24 April, 2012 The market intelligence company, Millennium Research Group (MRG), forecasts the European trauma device market will grow at a steady pace through 2016 to be valued at more than $855m.   [ View Detail ] NIH issues sole source RIS contract to Carestream Radiology Information Systems (RIS) : 23 April, 2012 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards a sole source contract for a radiology information system (RIS) to Carestream Health.   [ View Detail ] New NeuroMetrix pain therapy device files for 510(k) clearance Pain management : 23 April, 2012 NeuroMetrix files a premarket notification, or 510(k), with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its SENSUS Pain Therapy device.   [ View Detail ] Exactech selects Medical Metrics to be imaging lab for cartilage repair Radiology equipment : 23 April, 2012 Medical Metrics (MMI) is selected by Exactech to conduct an independent evaluation of medical images from the BiPhasic Cartilage Repair Implant (BiCRI) IDE Clinical Trial approved by the Taiwan FDA.   [ View Detail ] CDISC releases new Protocol Representation Model toolkit Research institutes : 23 April, 2012 The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is releasing the first iteration of a Protocol Representation 'Toolkit' for clinical research at the CDISC European Interchange Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.   [ View Detail ] Sotera Wireless receives FDA clearance for ViSi Mobile system Patient monitoring equipment : 23 April, 2012 Sotera Wireless receives 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ViSi Mobile System, a new continuous vital signs monitoring system for use in hospitals.   [ View Detail ] Practice Fusion offers social media-style messaging for doctors Text messaging : 23 April, 2012 Practice Fusion is launching a HIPAA-compliant messaging feature within its EMR to enable physicians, nurses and medical providers to communicate with colleagues outside their practices.   [ View Detail ]

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