Industry News

07/01/2006

Thermofocus

"Thermofocus* is the first non-contact clinical thermometer in the world and the only one working at an accurate and determinate distance," Tecnimed srl, its manufacturer, …

07/01/2006

More distributors wanted

France - Danube, one of the world's biggest manufacturers of both flatwork dryer ironers, barrier washers, and tumble dryers, as well as front-loading washer extractors for the …

07/01/2006

Intelligent textiles

The latest textile technologies go along with fabric integrated sensors, or computers, to measure e.g. the functioning of a patient's cardiovascular system. …

07/01/2006

Smiths Medical wins US$3.4 million contract

USA - The 898-bed Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston - Harvard Medical School's biggest teaching hospital - has awarded a $3.4 million contract for 1,365 syringe …

07/01/2006

France and Spain gain the first region-wide speech recognition systems

In an effort to optimise efficiency and patient service, Spain's Castilla-La Mancha region and the Paris Hospital network AP-HP have become the first in Europe to introduce speech …

07/01/2006

Exposanita 2006

Bologna, Italy - With 670 exhibitors - 595 domestic and 78 international companies from 18 countries as well as 344 represented companies from 36 countries - and close to 28,000 …

07/01/2006

iSOFT Switzerland joins NEXUS AG

Nexus AG, which develops and markets healthcare IT-solutions, supporting an integrated approach for the exchange of data between general practitioners, hospitals and …

07/01/2006

Dictation device can be accessed via mobile phones and another scans barcodes

Philips Speech Processing recently introduced two new dictation devices to ease medical information recording. …

07/01/2006

Progressing towards the EPR

Today, the Local Healthcare Company ASL Nº 11, of Empoli, Florence, is a highly advanced public utility, able to face the challenges of technological innovations and to …

07/01/2006

Touch-less sensor dispenser

The Japanese firm Saraya, which for 50 years has successfully manufactured hygiene products and programmes for healthcare, facility management and the food industry, has launched …

05/23/2006

ILED - the LED operating lamp

Based on semiconductor connections that convert the current directly into light, LEDs have numerous technical advantages over conventional halogen and gas discharge lamps, the …

05/23/2006

Seeing the light

Derungs Medical Lighting has designed a novel light experience room specifically for MEDICA 2005. …

05/23/2006

The gigantic impact of dwarf technology

It occupies approximately the same space as one to three atoms. …

05/23/2006

Diamond Select

Barbara Streisand sang about it in Second Hand Rose: …

05/23/2006

Medica 2005

The organisers of Medica, the world's largest medical trade fair have reported that 137,000 visitors from around 100 countries attended these events in November. …

05/01/2006

Major order

The largest European service contract in the hospital sector, worth around €60 million, was recently awarded, by the Charité Hospital in Berlin, to Vamed, the Austrian hospital …

05/01/2006

The Kitten Scanner

The Philips Kitten Scan is a miniature CT (or CAT) scanner for children - no, not to be scanned in it, but for them to use while awaiting checkups themselves. …

05/01/2006

Donation to Swedish Brain Foundation gains research funds

Sweden - The Swedish Brain Foundation has received a donation of SEK 250 thousand (approximately e27,593) to support advanced research and development, from GE Healthcare, based …