May 2007   Welcome to Healthcare IDeaS, Your Monthly Healthcare Newsletter from Industry IDS 
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Industry Leaders to Promote Interoperability Across Telehealth Systems
Continua Health Alliance’s Working Group comprises of healthcare industry leaders, dedicated to bringing together standards and diverse technology to create new healthcare solutions in the areas of fitness and chronic disease management.
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Image-Guided Surgical Robot to Enhance Accuracy and Safety of Brain Surgery
Controlled by a surgeon from a computer workstation, neuroArm operates in conjunction with real-time MR imaging, providing surgeons unprecedented detail and control, enabling them to manipulate tools at a microscopic scale.
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Sonograms Deliver Real-Time 3-D Pictures of Unborn Babies
Parents-to-be can view realistic images of their unborn child using updated sonogram technology at Frederick Memorial Hospital. The digital imagery is provided in either three-dimensional or flat imagery, or four-dimensional.
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VivaNet Telemedicine Server for Dermatology Applications to the EU
The VivaNet™ server is intended to link dermatology practitioners using Lucid’s non-invasive VivaScope® confocal imagers with other dermatologists or pathologists via the Internet. Lucid will display the VivaNet™ server at the EADV.
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Siemens Launches RFID Pilot to Track Surgical Procedures
Siemens IT Solutions and Services has teamed with a hospital in Munich, to test the use of active and passive RFID tags to track sponges, swabs and other items used during surgery, and to track the surgical process itself.
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Healthcare Reforms
Are You Paying Too Much For Healthcare?
Surfing for Health Care
Health Care System Needs to Be Fixed
State Expanded Health Care
Medical Equipment Faults Must Be Reported – MHRA
Major Health Care Reform for Uninsured Families
Push for Mental-Health 'Parity' Continues
WHO Lists 9 Ways to Prevent Health Care Errors
Mental Health Checkups Are as Important as Physicals
Industrial Developments
Andover Medical to Acquire Ortho-Medical Products
The transaction marks Andover's first acquisition as a public company, as it intends to establish a nationwide network to assist practitioners in providing quality care and services to their patients.
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GE Healthcare Acquires Wave Biotech
GE Healthcare announced it has acquired Wave Biotech LLC. The acquisition will allow GE to expand its offering of products and services for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals such as antibodies and vaccines.
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Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Provides Grant to the WFH
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals announced that it has awarded € 250,000 to the World Federation of Hemophilia, to support groundbreaking initiatives that aim to improve the overall state of hemophilia care for patients around the world.
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Editorial

New developments in the field of portable power solutions have been seen with Micro Power’s new medical battery packs. These medical battery packs tolerate temperatures up to 137º C and are impermeable to 30 PSI of superheated steam.

The battery pack components are specially designed to survive the unique extreme conditions of an autoclave, with minimal performance deterioration for the NiMH cells. The plastic housing is a glass blend that helps to withstand the heat and the pack is sealed together with a gasket and screws.

These features allow a portable surgical tool manufacturer to offer the run time and power to complete major orthopedic surgeries.

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Featured White Papers
Title In Search of the ROI from CPOE
Author Rick Krohn
Company HealthSense Inc
Synopsis
The CPOE reduces cost, improves patient safety, minimizes risk, and supports clinical efficiency. It is the single most important technology solution to the issue of medical errors as well as a catalyst of healthcare’s digital transformation.
 
Title Leveraging the Full Potential of Automated Meter Reading (AMR) Technologies
Author CGI
Company CGI
Synopsis
AMR is gaining ground as an effective improvement over other comparatively error prone data collection methods. The initial costs can be higher than the traditional means of capturing the data, but in the long run, substantial saving has been noted.
 
 
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