Nova Biomedical New Generation StatStrip Glucose Hospital Meter Obtains FDA 510k Clearance
2024 15 May
Nova Biomedical announces the U.S. launch of our New Generation StatStrip Glucose Hospital Meter System. The new meter includes many features that make hospital glucose testing easier and more cybersecure while retaining the accuracy, freedom from interferences, and FDA clearance for use with critically ill patients that StatStrip has provided...Read more
Acadia Hospital welcomes Kristen Sparks, MD to Consult Services
2024 12 Mar
Kristen Sparks, MD recently joined the Consult Services team at Northern Light Acadia Hospital. In her new role, Dr. Sparks will provide high level psychiatric assessments and treatment recommendations to providers at 22 emergency departments across the State of Maine. Dr. Sparks attended Ohio State University where she earned her medical...Read more
Getinge Expands its Virtual Hospital to Add More Value for Visitors
2022 27 Oct
Since the opening in 2021, Getinge’s Virtual Hospital has offered visitors to experience hospital solutions in different rooms. The online facility is now coming together as a whole, with entire hospital departments allowing visitors the full picture of how the MedTech suppliers broad range of solutions work together throughout the clinical pathway....Read more
New Study Shows Getinge Innovation Can help Hospitals Lower Anesthetic Waste by Up to 58 Percent
2022 31 Mar
A newly released study in the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing shows that the unique Automatic Gas Control (AGC) in Getinge’s anesthesia machine Flow-i, lowers sevoflurane wastage by up to 58 percent; a sustainable and economic approach without compromising patient safety. [1] The climate challenges calls for actions from both individuals...Read more
Temple University Hospital Adopts Masimo Centroid™
2022 08 Feb
Premier Philadelphia Academic Medical Center Implements Advanced Masimo Wearable, Wireless Patient Position, Orientation, and Activity Sensors in its ICUs Masimo and Temple Health has announced that Temple University Hospital (TUH) , a 722-bed academic medical center located in Philadelphia, is expanding its use of Masimo technologies with...Read more
Inside Story: How Ultrasound Is Proving An Ally To A Spanish Hospital Fighting COVID-19
2020 13 Apr
Tomás Villén is on a war footing. His hospital, Universitario Ramón y Cajal in the northern corner of Madrid, has been the epicenter of Spain’s battle against COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Together with Italy, Spain has borne the brunt of the pandemic in Europe. In late March and early April, roughly 300 new patients infected...Read more
Mindray Makes Donations to Designated Hospitals for COVID-19 in Wuhan
2020 05 Mar
Mindray announces to donate 3.14 million USD’s worth of medical devices to Tongji Hospital and Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Wuhan, two designated hospitals for critically ill coronavirus patients. The donation includes Mindray patient monitors, ultrasound systems and in-vitro...Read more
Hospital de La Princesa shortens antibiotic adaptation treatment for severe sepsis
2018 08 May
In positive blood cultures, the Accelerate Pheno TM system identifies the agent causing the infection in 90 minutes and around 5 hours afterwards it provides information on the antibiotic sensitivity of the pathogen, which is 28 hours less than the current conventional system used in the La Princesa Hospital. Two studies carried out by the centre, which...Read more
Artemis Hospital Becomes First in India to Adopt Masimo Patient SafetyNet™
2017 05 Dec
Masimo announced today that Artemis Hospital, one of the leading multi-specialty hospitals in the Delhi-NCR region of India, is adopting Masimo Patient SafetyNet™*, a supplemental remote monitoring and clinician notification system, across all hospital care areas. Patient SafetyNet, in conjunction with SET® pulse oximetry and rainbow® pulse CO-oximetry,...Read more
European Hospital Innovates its Cardiac Diagnosis Pathway by Introducing Philips Minicare
2017 03 Mar
Philips Minicare cTnI point-of-care blood test used for the first time in a rapid diagnosis protocol to improve patient experience and free up hospital resources Elkerliek Hospital (Helmond, the Netherlands) and Royal Philips, a leader in HealthTech,has announced their collaboration to pioneer the use of point-of-care testing in the hospital’s...Read more
New Data Show Malnutrition in U.S. Hospitals Associated with a $42 Billion Burden to Health System
2016 18 Oct
New AHRQ statistical brief, co-authored with BAXTER and ASPEN, show nearly 2 million U.S. hospital stays1 involve malnutrition Malnutrition-related hospital stays have up to a five times higher risk of deaths 2 , compared to patient stays not identified as malnourished Most malnourished-related hospital stays were two times longer 1 than for patient...Read more
Ohio Critical Access Hospital Adopts Masimo Root® with Radius-7®, Radical-7®,& Patient SafetyNet™
2016 28 Jul
Masimo has announced that University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center (UH Geneva), a Critical Access Hospital in Geneva, Ohio, is building a hospital-wide wireless monitoring and clinician notification system using Masimo Patient SafetyNet™* in conjunction with Masimo Root® with Radius-7® and Masimo Radical-7®. UH Geneva is part of University Hospitals,...Read more
India’s Motherhood Hospitals, Standardizes on Masimo SET® Technology
2016 02 Jun
Masimo has announced that Motherhood Hospitals, a maternal care specialist with five hospitals in three cities in India, has standardized on Masimo SET® (Signal Extraction Technology) pulse oximetry at all locations. Motherhood Hospitals will also be screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) using Masimo’s technology. “We are happy...Read more
Polish Health Authority First in Europe to Recommend Antimicrobial Copper in Hospitals
2016 27 Apr
Poland’s National Centre for Quality Assessment in Healthcare (NCQA) has revised its accreditation standards for healthcare facilities to include Europe’s first official recommendation that antimicrobial copper touch surfaces are incorporated as an infection prevention and control measure. Poland’s Hospital Accreditation Programme has existed...Read more
France’s University Hospitals Adopts Masimo Radical-7®,Including SpHb®,PVI®,& SET® Pulse Oximetry
2016 21 Apr
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) has announced that Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Limoges, in Limoges, France has installed Masimo’s Radical-7®, including noninvasive, continuous hemoglobin (SpHb®), Pleth Variability Index (PVI®), and SET® pulse oximetry technology, to monitor surgical patients and critical patients in the post-anesthesia care unit...Read more
Manipal Hospitals is the First in India to Adopt Masimo Patient SafetyNet™
2016 07 Mar
Masimo has announced that Manipal Hospitals is the first hospital in India to install Masimo Patient SafetyNet™, a remote monitoring and clinician notification system. "With Patient SafetyNet, we are now able to monitor a certain set of patients 24x7," said Gopal Devanahalli, Chief Operating Officer of Manipal Hospitals. "One of the key features...Read more
Turkey’s Leading University Hospital Adopts Masimo SpHb
2015 30 Jun
Masimo has announced that Turgut Ozal Medical Centre Liver Hospital in Malatya, Turkey, has installed Masimo’s noninvasive, continuous haemoglobin (SpHb®) technology to monitor surgical patients. SpHb is a breakthrough measurement that noninvasively and continuously measures total haemoglobin in the blood, and offers real-time visibility to...Read more
First Hospital Light Fixture to Kill Bacteria Safely & Commercially Available in U.S. & Canada
2015 29 Jun
Proven, Patented Technology Helps in the Fight Against Hospital Acquired Infections Kenall Manufacturing has introduced Indigo-Clean™ , a light fixture that uses Continuous Environmental Disinfection technology to continuously kill harmful bacteria linked to hospital acquired infections (HAIs). The technology behind Indigo-Clean™ inactivates a...Read more
