The MD Scientific LLC EndoTool Glucose Management System controls in-patient blood glucose levels with a reportedly sophisticated software system that calculates the dose of intravenous (IV) insulin needed to quickly control blood glucose levels in a critical care setting.

Wolfe Tory Medical Inc., the manufacturer of AbViser AutoValve Intra-Abdominal Pressure (IAP) monitoring devices, has incorporated a white stripe on all the AbViser tubing used for measuring IAP.

This change is in response to The Joint Commission 2006 Sentinel Event Alert regarding tubing misconnections and the potential for errors. The new white stripe reportedly allows the clinician to identify the tubing in the AbViser IAP Monitoring kit, reducing chances of a mishap. Tubing misconnections have become a failure mode for hospital mishaps causing injury to patients.

MAQUET Critical Care offers the SERVO-i MR environment option and NAVA (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist), which is capable of providing critically ill patients with advanced ventilatory care using the same machine wherever they are in the hospital.

The SERVO-i MR environment option allows patients who require an MRI exam to stay connected to the same SERVO-i ventilator that serves them in the ICU. MAQUET Critical Care’s SERVO-i ventilator with NAVA lets the patient control the ventilator with his/her respiratory center in the brain.

Canopy by Allscripts is a complete care management system that streamlines and automates utilization, case, discharge and quality management processes.

Medical device connectivity solution maker CapsuleTech’s DataCaptor is designed to automatically integrate patient clinical information from any bedside medical device by converting medical device data to HL7 format and communicate it to any clinical information system.

DataCaptor says it supports one of the largest device interface libraries in the world with more than 350 different types of medical devices, such
as patient monitors, ventilators and infusion pumps.

December 2007

M*Modal introduced AnyModal CDS Live, which extends the company’s hosted conversational documentation service, AnyModal CDS, to provide speech understanding functionality in real time. The technology captures and comprehends clinical information from dictation, transforming it directly into accessible, retrievable and sharable electronic files. AnyModal CDS Live reportedly works with existing hardware in place, on any computer.

Panasonic Computer Solutions Company recently introduced three new business-rugged notebook computers designed to meet the demands of mobile executives, walking workers and road warriors: the ultraportable W7, the tablet alternative T7, and the thin-and-light Y7.

Global Care Quest Inc.’s ICIS delivers multiple data types from multiple information systems of clinically relevant data in real time.

ICIS Dashboard and ICIS Mobile pull critical patient data such as lab results, vitals, X-rays, CT scans and demographics in real-time from diverse hospital systems. Information is delivered to physicians and other members of the medical team via desktop PCs, laptops and smartphones.

Philips announced that its speech recognition engine, SpeechMagic will be integrated into 3M Health Information Systems’ document creation suite of products, reportedly providing 3M’s customers with leading-edge documentation solutions and allowing Philips to further accelerate its growth in healthcare speech recognition.

The MediREC is an automated medication reconciliation product for hospitals that enables healthcare facilities to document and reconcile medications taken by patients at home, prior to prescribing additional drug therapies within the hospital environment.

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