blog posting By Evgeniya Lepchenko
1st year DMS studentMontgomery College
New Technology: Introducing Vscan Pocket-sized Visualization Tool for Ultrasound
GE Healthcare introduced Vscan, a new, pocket-sized visualization tool developed to provide physicians with imaging capabilities at the point-of-care. Roughly the size of a smart phone, Vscan houses powerful, ultra-smart ultrasound technology that provides clinicians with an immediate, non-invasive method to help secure visual information about what is happening inside the body.
The unit weighs one pound and is only 3 inches wide and 5.3 inches long, offering both standard black and white imaging, as well as Doppler colored blood flow. GE is touting Vscan's size and capabilities for cardiologists, and for primary care physicians, as well as OB/GYN, ER, and others, to scan the liver, kidney, aorta and peripheral vessels, babies and anything else the transducer can penetrate.
Many in the industry hope that this device offers a chance for physicians to make a move from stethoscopes to portable imaging devices, bringing advanced visualization to any examination room. The ability to take a quick look inside the body using Vscan may help clinicians detect disease earlier. For example the patient who comes in and has a bounding abdomen and doctor might set that transducer down and see that there's a very large aortic aneurysm.
Although the device is pricy, up to $10,000 it has good features like Intelligent workflow enhancements, battery charger station and battery life of one hour of scanning, which is good for up to 30 patients based on an average of 2 minutes per scan, voice annotation, USB docking station Link to a PC for organization and export of data, gateway software with services tools and remote diagnostics. Vscan was utilized at the Mobile Medical Unit, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
The Vscan imaging device received 510(k) clearance in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the CE Mark by the European Union, as well as the Medical Device License from Health Canada and is now commercially available in the U.S., Europe, India and Canada.
What do you think of this new technology, does it serve a purpose? Let me here what you think.
Resources:
http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com/_uploads/docs/vscan_press_release.pdf
http://medgadget.com/archives/2010/02/ges_vscan_worlds_smallest_portable_ultrasound_now_available_worldwide.html
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/02/15/am-ultrasound-tech/
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/ge-healthcare-introduces-vscantrade-pocket-sized-visualization-tool-for-point-of-care-imaging,1164307.shtml
The unit weighs one pound and is only 3 inches wide and 5.3 inches long, offering both standard black and white imaging, as well as Doppler colored blood flow. GE is touting Vscan's size and capabilities for cardiologists, and for primary care physicians, as well as OB/GYN, ER, and others, to scan the liver, kidney, aorta and peripheral vessels, babies and anything else the transducer can penetrate.
Many in the industry hope that this device offers a chance for physicians to make a move from stethoscopes to portable imaging devices, bringing advanced visualization to any examination room. The ability to take a quick look inside the body using Vscan may help clinicians detect disease earlier. For example the patient who comes in and has a bounding abdomen and doctor might set that transducer down and see that there's a very large aortic aneurysm.
Although the device is pricy, up to $10,000 it has good features like Intelligent workflow enhancements, battery charger station and battery life of one hour of scanning, which is good for up to 30 patients based on an average of 2 minutes per scan, voice annotation, USB docking station Link to a PC for organization and export of data, gateway software with services tools and remote diagnostics. Vscan was utilized at the Mobile Medical Unit, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
The Vscan imaging device received 510(k) clearance in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the CE Mark by the European Union, as well as the Medical Device License from Health Canada and is now commercially available in the U.S., Europe, India and Canada.
What do you think of this new technology, does it serve a purpose? Let me here what you think.
Resources:
http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com/_uploads/docs/vscan_press_release.pdf
http://medgadget.com/archives/2010/02/ges_vscan_worlds_smallest_portable_ultrasound_now_available_worldwide.html
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/02/15/am-ultrasound-tech/
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/ge-healthcare-introduces-vscantrade-pocket-sized-visualization-tool-for-point-of-care-imaging,1164307.shtml
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