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Price Alert: 4 portable ultrasounds

New specials on Portable Ultrasounds! The Acuson Cypress, one cardiac/vascular portable ultrasound available at $18,900 with a cardiac transducer. The Logiq e portable ultrasound is available again with two probes at $35,000. The GE Voluson i compact portable 4D laptop ultrasound is available while supplies last for just $54,000 with a 4D ultrasound transducer (it also performs solid vascular and obstetrics). Titans are still in stock!

Next week the GE Vivid e portable cardiac/vascular ultrasound will be on sale again at an unbeatable price. Call today for next week's outstanding Labor Day special on the Vivid e portable ultrasound. Go to the GPS Medical specials page to find out more.

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TomTec releases 4D ultrasound software

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TomTec launches 4D ultrasound

8/30/2007

Ultrasound visualization developer TomTec Imaging Systems said it plans to debut a new version of its 4D RV-Function software at the 2007 European Society of Cardiology congress, to be held September 1-5 in Vienna, Austria.

The update comes a year after TomTec launched its software for right ventricular analysis based on 3D ultrasound data. The 4D RV-Function software will allow users to analyze the right ventricle by referring to familiar anatomical structures, important in cases of heart failure and pulmonary and congenital heart disease, the Munich, Germany-based company said.

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GE gets behind Emergency Ultrasound

GE has gotten behind one of the more rapidly growing markets in ultrasound today, announcing a partnership with the Emergency Medical Foundation. With its hand carried ultrasound units (Logiqbook XP, Logiq e, Logiq i, Vivid e, Vivid i, Voluson i, and Voluson e), GE is looking to continue to hammer the portable ultrasound market and try and steal all it can from SonoSIte's market share, a good portion of which is in Emergency ultrasound.

 

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GE and EMF form ultrasound education partnership

GE Healthcare and the Emergency Medical Foundation (EMF) announced a one-year educational partnership to promote medical advancement of emergency ultrasound, including two ultrasound training days for emergency medicine residents. EMF, the education and research arm of the American College of Emergency Physicians, is a national organization, which funds research in emergency medicine, according to GE.

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SonoSite expands patent fight against GE

Use your own David v Goliath cliche here, but SonoSite appears to have been really offended by GE's initial lawsuit and is adding to its countersuit. This should get really interesting.

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SonoSite expands patent fight against GE - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

SonoSite Inc. said it has expanded its patent lawsuit fight with General Electric Co. in a Wisconsin court.

In July, the Bothell maker of hand-carried ultrasound machines filed a counterlawsuit after General Electric sued SonoSite in May, alleging that SonoSite ultrasound products infringed on GE products.

In an Aug. 17 amendment to its July countersuit, SonoSite alleged that GE, (NYSE: GE) of Fairfield, Conn., infringed on additional SonoSite patents.

"We continue to believe that GE's claims of patent infringement are without merit and we have now expanded our claims against them. We will continue to vigorously assert our rights," said Kevin Goodwin, SonoSite (NASDAQ: SONO) president and CEO, in a statement.

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New inexpensive PACS system

This is a company we've been watching recently and we demo'd their PACS system. For the price and performance, we were impressed with this product and we're currently looking at installing it in our first "test" site in the next month. It's a pretty cool product and they've asked us to distribute it for them.This has been outside our realm a bit, but it appears to be a great solution for our customers at GPS. You can email me if you want to evaluate the product. As I evaluate it further, I'll keep things posted here.

 

Ashva receives FDA 510(k) clearance for iMagic v 2.0 - Image management and reporting software for Ultrasound systems

Ashva receives FDA 510(k) clearance for iMagic v 2.0 - Image management and reporting software for Ultrasound systems

Ashva Technologies Private Limited, has announced today that the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared iMagic version 2.0 for marketing in USA.

 

Ashva Technologies Private Limited, recognized as one of the leading PACS companies in India has announced today that the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared iMagic version 2.0 for marketing in USA. The iMagic software has been cleared for a variety of tasks including Ultrasound image archiving, manipulation, creation of template based reporting and distribution of images on to a media like a CD/DVD or printing them on standard Windows based printers.

Sunder Natrajan, CEO of Ashva Technologies Pvt Ltd states:

“We are very pleased to offer this additional value to our valued customers. Even though we have over 500 plus installations of iMagic in Asia, we strongly felt that we need to have the FDA clearance. The clearance is a testament to the fact that iMagic follows International standards of quality and usability. We believe that there is no other product in the market at this price range packed with so many features and with a FDA clearance. Ashva continues to strive to bring leading edge imaging software with features found only in the high end solutions and at prices which are very attractive to the end user and to our partners.”

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