Healthcare IT News - January 2009 - (Page 29) www.HealthcareITNews.com Ge announces availablity of new ultrasound platform NEW YORK – GE Healthcare, a unit of the General Electric Company, has announced the commercial availability of the LOGIQ E9. The LOGIQ E9 is an ultrasound platform, fusing ultrasound images with The LOGIQ E9, an ultrasound platform from GE is now available, images from officials say. other imaging technologies like CT and MR. Through a tool called Volume Navigation, new products the LOGIQ E9 incorporates two key components to maximize the system’s new agile ultrasound architecture: fusion to combine the advantages of real-time ultrasound imaging with the high spatial and contrast resolution of CT, MR or PET; and a GPSlike technology to track and mark a patient’s anatomy during the ultrasound exam. A new GE architecture, called Agile Ultrasound, replaces old assumptions of conventional ultrasound systems with new, modular mathematical models that provide more accurate measurements of how sound interacts with different body tissue types January 2009 ■ Healthcare IT News 29 IP2Biz is testing a prototype wound measurement camera for documenting care. HandHeld camera computes wound area ATLANTA – Technology development company IP2Biz is testing a prototype wound measurement camera. Wound specialty nurses at the Shepherd Center, a not-for-profit hospital in med student at the university. Harris is starting to focus on where he will do his residency. “I do certainly ask about an institution’s level of health information technology when I interview there. It’s certainly not a deal-breaker for me if a hospital’s level of HIT is low, but it’s going to go in the “con” column,” he said. Trellis Usher-Mays, president and CEO of the T. R. Ellis Group, LLC, a management consulting firm, has experience with some of the giants in the healthcare IT industry and said she knows the value of clinical and IT systems on the quality of care and safety for patients in hospitals. “Knowing what I know having worked in this industry, as a patient, I too would feel vulnerable without the technology,” she said. Johnson said the survey responses in his study indicate “you never get so good that you don’t need a net.” “I think it is a reality that we need a safety net,” said Johnson. “To me it adds strength to the fact that clinicians rely on something other than their memory for knowledge management. For those who need it and those who didn’t realize they did.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: traiNed 0109 TraINed Continued from page 1 in an environment with less IT. According to the study, they reported “feeling less able to practice safe patient care, to utilize evidence at the point of care, to work efficiently, to share and communicate information and to work effectively within the local system.” Kevin Johnson, MD, associate professor and vice chairman of Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, said his study illustrates why the transition plan from medical school should include assessing residents’ abilities to use conventional technologies in the absence of electronic health records and computerized physician order entry. “I think one of things we learned, is that we need to expose students to paper -based counterparts before they are in a real-life setting,” said Johnson. He said they plan to incorporate the assessment of conventional technology in the 4th year curriculum. “Vanderbilt students are extremely well trained. I feel like we could thrive in any environment – with or without IT – though the lack of efficiency in a low-tech environment could be burdensome, said Bryan Harris, a fourth-year Atlanta, Ga., are putting the camera through its paces. The handheld device determines and captures wound boundaries and wound area using proprietary software and low-cost hardware. The device provides fast, accurate and repeatable digital documentation of wound progression, a necessary component to validate payment from insurance and government agencies. Stephen Sprigle, associate professor of Applied Physiology and Industrial Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology, led the technology development. “We designed the device to address a key and growing need in wound management,” said Sprigle. “Our goal was to provide a low-cost, easyto-use device that used the latest technology to provide measurements of the area of the wound. The device does not require patient contact, thus providing maximum infection control. The simple design is intuitive to use and requires minimal training, thus making it ideal for use in a wide range of environments, including homecare.” John Hitt of IP2Biz sees a growing need for wound management. “Hospitals, rehabilitation clinics and specialized care centers all need to address the increasing requirements for pay-forperformance healthcare,” said Hitt. “This device enables healthcare providers to consistently document healing and meet validation requirements from Medicare/Medicaid and insurance agencies.” The technology is licensed exclusively to IP2Biz from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: products 0109 ● ad index Transcription & Dictation LINKMED® Transcription LINK Medical Computing, Inc. 200 Reservoir Street, Suite 103 Needham, MA 02494 T: 888-893-0900 F: 781-453-0311 E: sales@linkmed.com www.linkmed.com ● OVER 25% OF CHARTS CONTAIN ERRORS ABOUT VITAL SIGNS. 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