July 18, 2007 — Omron Healthcare recently announced the launch of a new portable patient monitor (model BP-S510). This product is the first to be released by Omron since the company’s acquisition of Colin in April 2006.

The BP-S510 combines non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) technology and Omron’s reportedly user-friendly design capabilities to provide a versatile, lightweight monitor that will enable close watch of a patient’s vital signs whether they are sedentary or being moved within a hospital.

July 18, 2007 — Many physicians experience significant emotional distress and job-related stress following near misses and medical errors, according to a new study published in the August 2007 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

The findings point out the need to improve organizational resources for all health care professionals to receive the support they need following an error.

July 18, 2007 - Seventy-five-year-old Maria Zavala is the first woman in the U.S. to undergo a site-specific radiation procedure, called AccuBoost, to treat her Stage II breast cancer. Performed at San Antonio's Texas Cancer Clinic, the treatment is designed to deliver focused radiation to her lumpectomy cavity.

July 18, 2007 - MDVIP Inc. focuses on what the firm calls "personalized preventive healthcare" in an attempt to change the way Americans look at and receive healthcare.

MDVIP is a national network of physicians who practice proactive, preventive and personalized healthcare, detection and treatment of disease, according to company spokesperson Nancy Udell. "MDVIP-affiliated physicians reduce the practice to no more than 600 patients in order to focus on prevention and wellness, not just the treatment of illness once a patient gets sick," she said.

July 18, 2007 – Medtronic’s FDA-cleared Prestige Cervical Disc is the first artificial disc commercially available in the U.S. for use in the neck. The Prestige Cervical Disc may offer patients who suffer from degenerative disc disease the potential to preserve motion at the treated level, as well as offer pain relief and function, the company says.

July 18, 2007 – The New Aurora LED Surgical Lighting system from Skytron is an advancement in bright, cool, high-intensity optics for use in the operating suite. The system provides comfortable and cool surgical light illumination, even for extended cases. Cool, bright and color-correct light is standard along with surgeon’s choice of selectable color temperature for every procedure.

For more information: www.skytron.com

July 17, 2007 - Scientists at India's Sathyabama University have created a portable heart monitor that sends emergency alerts and readings as text messages.

The Bluetooth heart monitor measures electrical signals from the patient's heart, analyzes them to produce an electrocardiogram and can transmit an alert together with the ECG by cell phone text message.

July 18, 2007 – Nucletron will introduce its new microSelectron Digital afterloader that reportedly makes the introduction of brachytherapy or the expansion of current brachytherapy offerings easier, more cost-effective and easily adaptable to future needs of patients and clinicians, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

July 18, 2007 - Nucletron B.V. recently released version 3.0 of its Oncentra MasterPlan, a treatment planning system that may become the first TPS on the market to facilitate the import of DICOM RT doses from other DICOM-compliant systems, thereby simplifying the evaluation and comparison of plans.

New features will allow users to adapt and streamline their daily work in the radiotherapy clinic. This new release also reportedly allows TMS-Helax users to more easily migrate their patient data and treatment plans into MasterPlan via a DICOM archive.

July 18, 2007 – Nucletron will introduce its new microSelectron Digital afterloader that reportedly makes the introduction of brachytherapy or the expansion of current brachytherapy offerings easier, more cost-effective and easily adaptable to future needs of patients and clinicians, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

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