Platform speeds up diagnostic image sharing
NEWTON, MA – LifeIMAGE, which provides an Internet service for universal e-sharing of diagnostic imaging information, has launched a new platform that is designed to speed up image sharing during emergency transfers. The new platform called TIME (Internet-based Trauma Image Management & Exchange) helps trauma units collect diagnostic imaging information early, and instantly share it with surgical teams and other care providers. First response sites that need to e-share diagnostic quality images with a trauma center using TIME do not need to purchase or deploy lifeIMAGE software, or have a virtual private network (VPN) connection. Using a simple Internet connection, imaging information can be instantly and securely shared with the receiving site’s trauma DropBox, where clinicians and administrators can preview and examine images.
RFID cabinet boasts larger capacity, ‘smarter’ features
MADISON, WI – Terso Solutions Inc. has expanded its line of RFID-enabled cabinets with the addition of a larger-capacity cabinet that is designed for operating room supply centers and catheterization labs.
The new cabinet has 25 cubic feet of storage space and measures 36 inches wide by 26 inches deep and is 80 inches tall. A key feature of the cabinet is a customizable storage system of bins, shelves and hangers that is suitable for protecting and tracking a variety of high-value items such as cardiovascular products, orthopedic supplies, Class II pharmaceuticals, reagents and bio-samples. RFID technology enables the cabinet to capture inventory transactions at the item level by user, leading to greater accountability. To access the cabinet, a user presents his electronic access control card to a cabinet-mounted scanner and removes the needed RFID-tagged product. When the cabinet door is closed, the RFID system records the items that were removed and communicates the information back to the hosted database. The enclosure also monitors its internal temperature and the inventory expiration dates. End users can securely access Terso’s centralized database via a Web-based user interface or a cellular network.
Lenovo’s new tablet offers greater portability for docs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – Lenovo has introduced its new ThinkPad X201 laptop, touting it as the industry’s fastest ultraportable laptop. The ThinkPad X201 weighs 3.5 lbs, and with battery life of more than 10 hours, the ThinkPad X201 Tablet offers better portability for doctors and nurses making the rounds. It features an enhanced Finger Print Reader with power on authentication, so that healthcare providers can feel confident that the information stored on the ThinkPad X201 Tablet is secure. Lenovo also introduced five new Think-branded products including: the ThinkPad X201s laptop, the thinnest and lightest ThinkPad; the X201 tablet, the smart tablet for business users; the W701 and W701ds mobile workstations, the most powerful ThinkPads; and the ThinkServer TS200v tower, which Lenovo touts as the first server with “unprecedented management capabilities and solid reliability at a desktop price.”
Elsevier introduces 3-D anatomy tool for medical students
PHILADELPHIA – Elsevier has developed 3-D interactive tools for medical students that aims at helping them master anatomy. InteractElsevier’s 3-D interactive anatomy tools feature an intuitive, flexible interface, correlated CTs and MRIs, a searchable terminology database, exploratory exercises, quizzes, and real-time interactivity. Students and faculty can use the tools to create a body through the assembly of bones, muscles, arteries and nerves and then approach regions such as upper or lower limbs, or systems such as skeletal, muscular or circulatory. By using interactive buttons, they can rotate the body or peel, hide, label and make structures transparent. Teachers and students can access InteractElsevier’s 3-D interactive anatomy tools in several formats, including online (Web interactive) and in full stereoscopic 3-D (virtual reality). Clinicians can engage students and peers with stereoscopic 3-D in lectures, labs or at conferences and exhibits, while faculty, students and clinicians can conduct personal, self-directed explorations on anatomy via the Web. The tool is powered by CyberAnatomy, an Iowa-based company that creates interactive learning systems for students.
Step by Step app launched to help encourage healthy behaviors
ANN ARBOR, MI – HealthMedia, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, has launched its HealthMedia Step by Step goal-setting and progress tracking program as a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch.
HealthMedia Step by Step, which is currently offered as part of HealthMedia Digital Health Coaching programs through employers and health plans, helps individuals achieve their health goals by tracking health statistics and reinforcing healthy, positive behavior changes.
Tracking features include:
- Physical activity
- Health statistics including blood pressure, cholesterol, weight, fat grams, calorie intake, medication dosage
- Emotions – (tracks emotions to help reverse negative thinking and sustain positive behavior change)
The iPhone application can track the same physical activities, statistics and emotions that the HealthMedia Step by Step Web tool tracks. In addition, the iPhone application can take advantage of the iPhone built-in GPS to track distance, and it will upload distances directly to the participant’s private digital health coaching home page.
