The Glucommander Plus, by GlucoTec Inc., provides patient management and system-wide quality improvement services for healthcare providers concerned with patient glycemic control.
The device (tablet or hand-held versions available) enables licensed healthcare professionals to titrate dosing of insulin, glucose, saline and other medications for patients on intravenous and subcutaneous therapy and as a result, to reach target blood glucose levels more quickly and with fewer complications than other treatment methods.

The EndoTool Glucose Management System by MD Scientific is an intravenous insulin dose calculator designed for critical care applications for tight blood glucose control. The software is HIPPA compliant, provides printed and digital records, is user friendly, reduces physician work load, requires no calculations by nurses, allows for local control of many parameters, can provide medical director directed transition to subcutaneous insulin orders and is associated with an incidence of hypoglycemia below all published reports of tight glycemic control protocols.

Two universal thermal pads that enable rapid application of temperature management and greater flexibility in pad placement on patients are available with the Kimberly-Clark Patient Warming System.
The small or large-sized rectangle pads are designed to be placed anywhere on the body where there is intact, well-perfused skin. The warming system provides a noninvasive method of temperature control, requiring minimal body coverage for maximum access to surgical sites, and is ideal for complex surgeries involving access to large surface areas or open cavities.

The University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) is the first facility to install Siemens’ Inveon preclinical imaging system.
This dockable multimodality system was developed to offer maximum imaging versatility and performance. It allows facilities of perform PET, SPECT or CT individually or in combination, and provides a multimodality upgrade path and comprehensive suite of preclinical analysis applications. The system was demonstrated last week at the Fifth Annual Society of Molecular Imaging (SMI) show in Waikloa, HI.

Cancer patients in India can now receive IGRT treatments with the arrival of Varian’s Clinac iX linear accelerator equipped with an On-Board Imager device for imaging and tumor tracking at the newly opened radiation oncology center at Apollo Hospital in Ahmendabad.

A recent report published by Duke University Medical Center demonstrated how functional MRI (fMRI) could enhance safety in brain tumor surgery, by highlighting motor and language areas of the brain and lessen the possibility of damaging healthy tissue.

The PET imaging market is experiencing double-digit growth, according to a report by IMV Medical Information Division. The study, which surveyed 1,725 hospitals and other sites with PET/CT and PET scanners as well as nuclear medicine cameras with coincidence detection, found that PET studies increased by 60 percent in 2003 to reach a 26.5 percent annual growth rate between 2003-2005.


Fighting cancer is serious business. Not only for the patient, of course, but also for the clinicians who typically must satisfy the patient’s needs while balancing the technology to which they have immediate access with the latest technology available in the market. It represents an ongoing struggle fueled by payer reimbursement cutbacks, budgetary squeezings and expense explosions.

High-dose breast brachytherapy is but a blip on the century-old timeline of brachytherapy milestones in modern medicine. Yet in just the five years since its introduction in the U.S., it is showing significant promise not only as a viable alternative to mastectomy, but may one day rival whole breast external irradiation in the fight against early stage breast cancer.

When you hear a name like The Emory Clinic Department of Radiation Oncology you undoubtedly conjure up visions of a top-notch, well-equipped outpatient cancer treatment center funded by generous private, public and collegiate benefactors that offset payer reimbursement woes.
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