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CES 2012: Digital Health Reality Check
February, 2012
I attended the CES 2012 in search of new and interesting ideas for MEDS (Medical Electronic Device Solutions magazine www.medsmag.com). According to CES, this year the record attendance reached 153,000.I attended two panel discussions. Compared to the conferences I attended last year, there were a lot of repeated themes such as the importance of wireless...
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Cyth Systems Races through Prototyping Process with New Modular Control Platform
February, 2012
NEWS RELEASE – Jan. 3, 2012 – Cyth Systems announces the expansion of the Circaflex family of control system products with the introduction of a new modular control platform to further accelerate prototype development for medical OEM projects. The new Circaflex Modular 540 series now allows daughter-boards to be assembled from modules comprised of smaller...
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Meet Embedded Software Quality Challenges in Medical Device Development
February, 2012
The market opportunity for medical devices has never been greater. Rapid advances in software, hardware, networking and communication technologies are paving the way for dramatic innovations in device design and functionality. Medical device makers today are producing machines with amazing new capabilities for saving and improving people’s lives. By doing so, they are contributing to...
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Pico-I/O Powers Portable Patient Monitors
January, 2012
Advances in x86 processors, combined with a right-sized Pico-I/O peripheral card ecosystem based upon USB, make it feasible to meet the major requirements of portable patient monitors with fully off-the-shelf building blocks. Portable medical devices have used custom CPUs and custom I/O blocks for years. From the analog front end to the microcontroller or RISC...
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The Body Gateway: mHealth Platform for Wearable Devices
January, 2012
Wearable medical devices offer a huge advantage in monitoring and early detection of symptoms. In order for them to fulfill their potential, they need a number of features to make them scalable, interoperable and more. The skyrocketing costs of healthcare have given rise to a rapidly growing segment: Mobile Health, or mHealth. mHealth technology is...
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Software Platform for Medical Devices Complete with Compliance Documentation
January, 2012
A new software platform for medical devices is part of a comprehensive software portfolio designed for medical device development, including those devices requiring premarket notification, U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 510(k), or the more stringent premarket approval. The Wind River Platform for Medical Devices is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) development and run-time platform enabling...
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Ultra-low-Dose CT Technology with Greatly Improved Image Clarity
January, 2012
GE Healthcare has announced 510(k) clearance of its new Computed Tomography (CT) technology, called Veo, which may help physicians deliver accurate diagnoses by enabling profound CT image clarity at dramatically lower dose. Veo represents what is called Model-based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) technique, and is already available on GE Discovery CT750 HD systems in Europe, Canada...
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250 Watt Medical Power Supply in low Profile 3” x 5” Package
January, 2012
A new series of AC/DC power supplies offers 250 watts of performance-packed design and is compliant to UL/cUL60601-1 and TUV 60601-1 medical safety standards. Units also bear the CE Mark and are RoHS compliant. This lowprofile PPWAM250 Series from Power Partners is suitable for a variety of patient vicinity medical and dental applications. The PPWAM250...
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Full-flat Patient Terminal for Patient Bedside Systems
January, 2012
A new flat panel patient terminal runs an Intel Atom D510 processor and is de- signed with a 15.6” wide, projective capaci- tive touch (PCT) full-flat glass panel. It has a sleek iPad look and feel, with customiz- able colors and icons. The PIT-1503W from Advantech is durable and easily cleanable with anti- bacterial cleaners,...
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GE’s radiology Mobile Access receives FDA Clearance for Advanced, Diagnostic CT and Mr Image review
January, 2012
GE Healthcare has demonstrated new capabilities for its Centricity Radiology Mobile Access platform, enabling radiologists to use their iPad and iPhone devices to remotely diagnose select patient images from Centricity PACS. Centricity Radiology Mobile Access 2.0 is a mobile product with clearance for primary diagnosis that accesses images and reports from Centricity PACS. This new...
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Siemens’ Iterative reconstruction Protocol Cleared by FDA
January, 2012
A new generation of image reconstruction software and hardware has reportedly been developed within Siemens Healthcare’s initiative Agenda 2013, which allows for a robust reduction of radiation dose in CT examinations. And recently, Siemens Healthcare has announced that its computed tomography (CT) iterative reconstruction algorithm SAFIRE—Sinogram Affirmed Iterative Reconstruction—has been cleared for domestic sale by...
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Continua Health Alliance releases 2011 Design Guidelines
January, 2012
The Continua Health Alliance, the international non-profit, open industry organiza- tion of healthcare and technology companies, has announced the release of its 2011 Design Guidelines. The new guidelines further enhance the pathway for complete solutions based on Continua-certified products and services aimed at cultivating the ecosystem of personal connected healthcare solutions. The updated design guidelines...
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