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Welch Allyn Names New Managers

7/2/2008

Welch Allyn Lighting Products, Skaneateles Falls, NY, a maker of high-performance lighting and technology, has named Stephen Chole as its international sales manager for surgical lighting, and Lori Babiarz as its service manager for its lighting products division.

Medical Device Tech Text

6/30/2008

Anthony Chan, a faculty member and program head at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada, has released a textbook titled Medical Device Technology: Principles and Design.

Integrated Solutions for Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Oncology from Philips

6/27/2008

Royal Philips Electronics, Netherlands, introduces its new BrightView XCT, which integrates BrightView SPECT in a co-planar design with flat-detector x-ray CT technology to acquire low-dose, high-resolution CT images.

Houston Biomed Engineering Expert Forms Consulting Firm

6/25/2008

After heading the biomedical engineering department at Texas Childrens Hospital for 25-plus years, Yadin David, has established Biomedical Engineering Consultants LLC, Houston.

Joint Commission Sets 2009 Patient Safety Goals

6/23/2008

The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill, has set its 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements for each of its accreditation programs and its disease-specific care-certification program.

Ann Scott Blouin Named Joint Commission Exec VP

6/20/2008

The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill, has appointed Ann Scott Blouin, PhD, RN, as executive VP for the division of accreditation and certification operations as of August 11.

GEs Lunar Equipment Tops in Customer Satisfaction

6/18/2008

MD Buyline, Dallas, an independent medical technology and informatics intelligence company, has ranked GE Healthcare number one for the second, consecutive quarter in its report on bone-mineral-densitometry equipment.

New FDG Delivery from Medrad/PETNET Alliance

6/16/2008

The distribution/co-marketing partnership formed by Medrad Inc, Warrendale, Pa and PETNET Solutions, Malvern, Pa will help health care providers inject fluorodeoxyglucose for PET/CT imaging procedures in a new way.

AAMI Scouting for Speakers at Annual Forum

6/13/2008

AAMI is casting its net far and wide for presentations at the educational sessions during its 2009 Conference & Expo next June in Baltimore.

FDA Funding Boost Could Improve Medical Product Safety

6/11/2008

The Department of Health and Human Services has upped its budget request for fiscal year 2009 with an additional $275 million for the FDA to back import-safety and food-protection programs.

Infusion Pumps Trigger ECRI Priority Alert

6/9/2008

ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, Pa, has issued a priority alert recommending immediate volume testing of several pumps from Curlin Medical, Huntington Beach, Calif due to potential life-threatening over-infusion of medications.

Intelligent Tags Protect Precious Samples

6/6/2008

RadarFind Corp, Morrisville, NC offers a patented real-time location system featuring RFID tags and readers with temperature-sensing capabilities.

Web Site Links Biomeds with Data

6/4/2008

DraegerService, the service arm of Draeger Medical Inc, Telford, Pa, has introduced Draeger Medical Service Community, an online site linking clinical and biomed users with in-depth information about the company's offerings.

Bed-level-location Tracking Offered

6/2/2008

GE Healthcare is collaborating with CenTrak Inc, Newton, PA for the Asset Optimization system, a new RFID technology that divides a room or segments a bay with radio frequency identification virtual walls.

Sonora Will Market Digitec Wares

5/30/2008

Sonora Medical Systems, Longmont, Colo, will market, sell, and distribute mammography offerings from Digitec Medical, Lawrenceville, Ga, per a new agreement.

Siemens Aids China's Earthquake Zone

5/28/2008

Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany, has donated medical equipment to aid in medical treatment of survivors of the May 12 earthquake that struck the Chinese province of Sichuan.

From A to Z at AAMI

5/27/2008

More than 150 medical manufacturers and service providers will showcase their latest wares at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentations 2008 Conference and Expo from May 31 to June 2 in San Jose, Calif.

Real-time Imaging for Cardiac Procedures

5/23/2008

GE Healthcare is expanding its alliance with Biosense Webster Inc, Diamond Bar, Calif, to develop real-time ultrasound imaging for use in electrophysiology procedures.

Key Sites Worldwide Opt for Sonora's Acoustic Power Testing Suite

5/21/2008

Sonora Medical Systems Inc, Longmont, Colo, has sold its Acoustic Power and Intensity testing suite to medical-device-testing entities around the globe.

3-D System with HD Panoramic For Dentistry

5/19/2008

A new tool in dentists and oral surgeons' diagnostic/treatment toolbox is the Soredex Scanora 3-D x-ray system with HD panoramic introduced by Instrumentarium Dental Inc, Milwaukee.