Orthofix Medical, a global medical device company with a spine and orthopaedics focus, has launched their fiberFUSE Strip and seen the first patient implants with the product, an advanced demineralized fibre bone-graft solution containing cancellous bone.
Innovative Health Sciences has received ISO 13485 quality management system and CE Mark certification for the Insignis Syringe Infusion System.
GoMeyra, an innovative cloud software company dedicated to providing enterprise technological solutions for medical laboratories, has launched a next generation healthcare management platform, GoMeyra MD, a suite of modules giving medical professionals the software needed for comprehensively managing patient care and electronic healthcare records, including a proprietary telehealth application. The first module available is the […]
ExThera Medical, maker of the only effective pathogen-removal, hemoperfusion filter approved for patient use in Europe, and Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases, have expanded distribution of ExThera’s Seraph 100 Microbind Affinity Blood Filter in Turkey, Finland, and Estonia. Earlier this year ExThera Medical and […]
DYSIS Medical has launched DYSIS View, a compact and portable colposcope, which includes the company’s innovative computeraided cervical mapping technology that helps healthcare professionals detect cervical lesions more clearly.
The University Hospital Salzburg, part of the Salzburg State Hospitals (SALK), is the world’s first hospital to implement Medical Microinstruments’s Symani Surgical System for commercial use in its robotic microsurgery programs. As one of the largest hospitals in Austria, SALK will specifically use Symani to further enhance its capabilities in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Recent tragic events in India and Iraq have focused minds on the safety measures in place at hospitals for the storage of oxygen supplies. Now gas processing systems specialist Oxair is urging medical and healthcare facilities across the world to avoid shortcuts and consider safety above all when ordering in their oxygen supplies.
At least 22 people died in a hospital in India when the flow of oxygen through ventilators was fatally interrupted. Meanwhile in Iraq 174 were killed in two separate catastrophic fires within three months at hospitals in the capital Baghdad and Nassiriya, reportedly caused by oxygen tanks exploding.
International health agencies had sounded warnings about a growing crisis of severe oxygen shortages, which is leading to hospitals outsourcing as many oxygen cylinders as possible. However, there are potential pitfalls such as a lack of suitable and safe storage space. Oxair has developed a simpler, safer solution – and it has already been deployed and proven.
A significant number of hospitals across India and other regions of the Middle East and Australasia are now self-sufficient and saving lives with an off-the-shelf Oxygen Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) system. These are high quality, robust medical devices designed to last and deliver consistent, high purity oxygen on tap to hospitals and healthcare facilities – even in the remotest locations around the world.
As it extracts its supplies directly from the atmosphere, PSA Oxygen offers better patient care with a permanent flow of high-quality oxygen. This system saves room space, offers output pressure and a flow rate to suit the needs of the hospital and is capable of piping oxygen to every department where it is needed.
Oxair’s system delivers constant oxygen of 94-95 per cent purity through PSA filtration, a unique process that separates oxygen from compressed air. The gas is then conditioned and filtered before being stored in a buffer tank to be used directly by the end user on demand. Orders for ready-to-use, standalone Oxygen PSA units can be turned around in just a few weeks, depending on local lockdown conditions.
David Cheeseman of Oxair said: “We’ve seen terrible consequences recently from a lack of life-saving medical oxygen, especially when treating Covid-19 patients. But there’s a lot more to it than simply pulling in extra cylinder supplies. If exposed to certain conditions the storage, handling and removal of these cylinders can also be hugely dangerous. It’s precisely the type of far-lying medical facility that might run out of oxygen, that is least equipped to store more of it safely and securely.
“We believe our PSA systems are the safest and ultimately cheapest solution for hospitals anywhere. The design of these PSA systems as ‘plug-and-play’ means that they are literally ready to start working as soon as they are delivered and plugged in, with voltage adapted to the country of delivery. So, hospitals can rely on technology that is tried and tested over many years, coupled with almost instant access to vital oxygen supplies under significantly safer conditions.”
Needlestick injuries are one of the most frequent accidents in hospitals and they can be particularly dangerous for healthworkers if there are contaminants involved, such as HBV, HCV or HIV.
Greiner Bio-One has released the VACUETTE EVOPROTECT safety blood collection set in an effort to prevent needlestick injuries during blood collection. The semi-automatic click mechanism protects the user from the risk of needlestick injuries and makes the daily task of blood collection easier. The safety triggers located on the side of the device facilitate one-handed activation. The needle is then automatically retracted and, at the same time, safely and irreversibly enclosed in the safety shield. A clearly audible click confirms that the safety mechanism is successfully activated.
The safety blood collection set meets current safety requirements and provides substantial support for safe blood collection and infusion with the same set.
Swiss aircraft manufacturer Pilatus, with its development partner Aerolite AG, now offers integration of the EpiShuttle in their medevac PC-24 aircraft.
The global COVID-19 pandemic situation has fuelled a growing demand for air transport solutions for infectious patients. To prevent in-flight transmission of viruses to cockpit and cabin crew, infected individuals are transported in an isolation unit known as an EpiShuttle. With its large cargo door and complete air ambulance equipment, the PC-24 is ideally suited for these missions.
Using an adapter, the EpiShuttle is attached to a universal transport trolley allowing transfer movements on the ground and positioning in the cabin. Loading is performed with the unique loading device, which automatically transfers the EpiShuttle unit plus patient into the cabin. The completely flat cabin floor and rollers on the transport trolley ensure the unit can be freely pushed into the desired position, where it is then secured directly to the seat rails using retaining devices.
“We are glad to see that Pilatus offers the very best patient comfort and safety. With the EpiShuttle’s features of reclinable backrest, transparent hard-top and excellent patient access, their passengers, both patient and staff, will have a safer and better ride. We are also impressed by Aerolite’s ingenuity when integrating the EpiShuttle into the medevac PC-24, an excellent aircraft for the transfer of infected patients with the EpiShuttle,” says Ellen Cathrine Andersen, CEO in EpiGuard.
Patient monitoring is ensured by medical equipment placed on a cradle right next to the EpiShuttle and powered by the on-board power supply. As with regular patient transport operations, medical personnel occupy cabin seats in the immediate vicinity of the EpiShuttle, and can attend to the patient at any time.
In 2015, during an outbreak of Ebola in Africa, Norway’s EpiGuard developed a modular isolation system which is now also in use for Covid-19 missions. The EpiShuttle features a modular reusable design and eight medical airlocks to ensure safe patient handling.
EpiGuard, a Norwegian company established in 2015, provides solutions for safe transportation of contagious patients. Their team of medical experts and engineers developed the EpiShuttle based on analysis and clinical first-hand experience from previous global epidemics. The EpiShuttle is NATOs stock listed and CE-marked as a class one medical device.
Philips showcased the Philips Patient Flow Capacity Suite and Philips Acute Care Telehealth at HIMSS21 in Las Vegas this week. These two new HealthSuite solutions allow health systems to integrate informatics applications that can be combined and scaled according to need. They are secure, cloud-based and intended to break down barriers across patient care in a cost-effective model. The solutions, Philips says, help health systems deliver on the aim of a connected, protected, future-ready and cost-predictive single-cloud infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
Additional clinical and operational solutions will be added to Philips HealthSuite. Next, updates are planned for Philips Electronic Medical Record and Philips Acute Care and Anesthesia Workspace.
As care settings expand beyond the hospital, health systems are seeking new ways to manage the influx of data while addressing challenges with IT resources and budgets. The adoption of platform-based IT models is on the rise, with more than 30% of global economic activity expected to be mediated by digital platforms in six years, yet experts estimate only 3% of companies have adopted an effective platform strategy [1].
Philips HealthSuite securely stores critical healthcare data and provides both advanced analytics and AI capabilities, while delivering industry-leading interoperability to help enable precision care and provide care anywhere. With these new HealthSuite solutions, health systems can liberate data from silos and connect it in a way that enables care teams to turn data into actionable insights and collaborate to better serve patients.
“Health systems today must continue to evolve to meet the needs of patients and providers, ensuring care is connected across settings and that care can be delivered anywhere – all of which requires agile and secure platforms that will allow them to innovate and scale as demands shift,” said Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader, Connected Care, Philips. “Our cloud-based HealthSuite solutions are a milestone in how they support the acceleration of digital transformation in health systems to deliver better, patient-centric care, while reducing costs and resources.”
Using a modular approach, Philips offers flexible solutions and services to solve specific customer needs, making solutions easy to implement, install, maintain, and use. All solutions benefit from the same SaaS model, which can help to lower initial deployment costs and relieve ongoing IT resource strains.
Philips’ informatics solutions are an integral part of Philips Care Collaboration (currently available only in North America), a collaborative approach to supporting a healthcare organization’s digital transformation. As health systems seek to manage, coordinate, orchestrate and synchronize care across the health continuum, each organization’s digital journey will be unique. Through Care Collaboration, Philips acts as a partner to healthcare organizations to gain a deep understanding of their challenges and determine how Philips’ advanced HealthSuite solutions can help them support data and workflows to deliver enhanced patient care.
[1] Schenker, J. (2019, January 28). The Platform Economy. Retrieved November, 2020, from https://innovator.news/the-platform-economy-3c09439b56a.
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