Toshiba's Aplio Artida 4D ultrasound system is designed for physicians to quantify global and regional LV function, including LV ejection fraction. The system is also one of the first to track myocardial motion and display myocardial motion in 3D, allowing the user to obtain angle-independent, quantitative and regional information about myocardial contraction. With this imaging system, physicians have the ability to identify wall motion defects and improve Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) using pacemakers.

March 2008

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. offers VistaTrak, a contrast media management system that provides a new management tool designed to help enhance patient care and safety, optimize inventory management and improve billing accuracy.

Carestream Health's Kodak Point-of-Care CR 360 System provides radiology imaging capabilities in a centralized or distributed environment, and can be used on a tabletop or on a Z-cart that enables users to take the equipment to the patient.

The system allow for high-resolution images reportedly with a wide exposure range and low noise, contains new operating software and allows for integration with multiple RIS/PACS systems. Designed for low to mid-volume imaging at hospitals, clinics and physician practices, the system has a throughput of up to 60 35-by-43-cm plates per hour.

March 10, 2008 - Complete Care Medical Inc. released a new sterile catheter and insertion kit, which reportedly includes accessories that will allow patients the ability to perform clean, intermittent self-catheterization more easily.

The catheters are intended to be disposable since urinary track infections and other complications are significantly reduced by sterile single-use catheters compared to reused catheters, said the company.

For more information: www.ccmedicalinc.com

March 10, 2008 - NetMotion Wireless’ Mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution was recently selected by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) to provide VNSNY's home healthcare workforce with real time access to critical data and applications at the point of care, said the company.

March 10, 2008 - Life Spine has been given FDA 510(k) marketing clearance for Lynx, a new cross connector system designed for use in surgical lumbar fusion procedures.

The Lynx will reportedly allow surgeons more options when performing lumbar spine surgery and presented with a need for a stabilizing cross connector system.

March 10, 2008 - Mobile healthcare applications developer Epocrates Inc. is working directly with Apple to create an application for the iPhone to enable healthcare professionals to have immediate access to vital clinical information wherever they need it, regardless of Internet connectivity.

The software will include a drug-drug interaction checker, accurate drug dosing information, alternative medication monographs and interactions, patient education handouts, and pill pictures and identifiers.

March 10, 2008 - AeroScout Inc. recently said NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital launched its radio frequency identification (RFID) solution to track thousands of infusion pumps and other high-value equipment across four of its campuses in New York City.

March 10, 2008 - Testing hospitalized patients for drug-resistant infections can help reduce mortality, decrease length of stay and reduce cost of care, according to a new study recently released by AdvaMed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association.

March 10, 2008 - The FDA gave Siemens 510(k) market clearance of four new software applications used with the SOMATOM Definition aimed at simplifying the diagnosis of diseases of the heart, brain, lungs and extremity joints, as announced at ECR 2008, currently being held in Vienna.

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