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03/08/2007

Out-of-hospital digital documentation

Vital patient-related data must be documented by emergency medical services, disaster relief units and emergency physicians, in out-of-hospital settings, and currently most of …

01/18/2007

Company Round-up

Siemens Medical Solutions strengthens its diagnostics devision, J&J wins stent patent appeal over Boston Scientific and Medtronic, Leica extends its product range and GE …

12/27/2006

Anaesthesiology

Dräger's Acute Care System is reported to be the first to offer a totally new approach to managing and delivering care across the entire acute care process - from emergency care …

12/27/2006

Sales up for painless wound closure devices

A dramatic change in the market for painless wound closure devices is predicted during the next five years due to advances in medical and surgical technologies. …

12/27/2006

Back to bed safely

Patients can be unpredictable and, if they leave their beds, some might come to harm if their movements go unnoticed. WeSpot SecNurse, a new monitoring sysem produced by the Dutch …

12/27/2006

Leica MDRS3 for microsurgery videos and stills

The compact, medically tested Leica Medical Digital Recording System MDRS3 from Leica Microsystems allows video and uncompressed still images recording from multiple cameras …

12/27/2006

Jeep and quad to the rescue

Islanders on Usedom, in Germany's Baltic Sea, will be the first to see two unique rescue vehicles in action. …

12/27/2006

Philips Speech Recognition Systems acquires Kuhlmann-Informations-Systeme

Philips Speech Recognition Systems has acquired Kuhlmann-Informations-Systeme (KIS), a provider of dictation and speech recognition solutions for healthcare. …

12/27/2006

New surgical procedure for effective thermofusion and dissection of vessels

The Californian company SurgRx and ERBE Elektromedizin of Tubingen, Germany, have negotiated an international distribution agreement for the EnSealTM PTC tissue sealing and …

12/18/2006

First PC dictation products available for Linux operating system

With the new Linux software development kit (SDK) Royal Philips Electronics introduced the first solution to integrate their SpeechMike products into a Linux operating system. …

11/17/2006

Toshiba's 256-row CT

With Toshiba's 256-row CT scanner, Multi-Slice Computed Tomography (MSCT) will make a quantum leap. Consequently, expectations were high when the new CT premiered during “New …

11/17/2006

Digital speech processing from Grundig Business Systems

One of world's leading manufacturers of professional dictation systems, Grundig Business Systems, has launched a new mobile dictation machine — the Digta 415. …

11/17/2006

RSNA/US launch for EU healthcare consultancy

Launched in 2005, and introduced to a broader healthcare public at the 2006 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Agfa Healthcare Consulting is now to be introduced to potential …

11/17/2006

Ci-Ca Therapy

Less bleeding complications due to safe citrate anticoagulation. …

11/17/2006

The European respiratory diseases market

Affordable, effective and innovative products drive sales. …

11/17/2006

Portable multi-parameter monitors

Fukuda Denshi, manufacturer of advanced patient monitoring and user-configurable clinical information management systems, recently introduced its popular DS-7100 range of …

11/16/2006

Patient's brain controls mechanical ventilation

Among ventilation advances demonstrated at this year's European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Congress, held in Barcelona, the combination of the SERVO-i ventilator with …