Siemens Retools Healthcare Division

German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG on April 30 announced changes in the organization of its Siemens Healthcare division that include creating separate divisions for advanced imaging modalities and less complex radiology systems.
Effective May 1, the Erlangen, Germany-based Healthcare division will still consist of three divisions: Imaging and Therapy Systems, Clinical Products and Diagnostics. Imaging and [...]

ALOKA Ultrasound’s Pro Sound Alpha 6 Wins International Design Award

ALOKA Ultrasound recently announced that its newly released full featured compact ultrasound system, the ProSound Alpha 6, won a 2010 International Forum (iF) product design award in the Medicines and Healthcare category. The iF Product Design Award is one of the prestigious awards worldwide and is granted by the International Forum Design in Germany. The [...]

ZONARE Installs 11 Ultrasound Systems at Decatur Vein Clinic Sites

Decatur Vein Clinic, a provider of chronic venous insufficiency healthcare services, announced it has installed 11 additional ultrasound systems from ZONARE Medical Systems, bringing their total number of z.one ultrasound systems to 24. The systems are spread over clinics in Indiana, Michigan and Colorado. The z.one ultrasound platform’s software-based architecture allows its performance to continue [...]

Toshiba Names New Executives

Toshiba America Medical Systems has promoted Senior Vice President Satoshi Tsunakawa to President and CEO. Additionally, Toshiba has named Tomo Hasegawa as the new director of its ultrasound unit, and has promoted Marketing Services Director Catherine Wolfe to Senior Director of Corporate and Strategic Communications. www.healthimaging.com

B-K Medical’s Flex Focus Mobile Ultrasound Scanner Wins Red Dot Product Design Award

The Flex Focus™ mobile ultrasound scanner, designed by B-K Medical, has received a 2010 Red Dot Product Design Award. The Red Dot Award, given by Germany’s Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, is one of the largest and most renowned product design awards in the world. This year, an expert panel of jurors evaluated 4252 entries based [...]

GE Targets Ultrasound Energy Reduction

GE Healthcare is joining with other medical device manufacturers to commit to a 25% reduction in average energy consumption of new ultrasound products by 2012.
With support from the European Commission, GE and a group of 10 other medical device firms within the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical, and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR) have [...]

SonoSite Begins $50M Stock Repurchase Program

SonoSite, a provider of point-of-care ultrasound systems, has begun a stock repurchase program under which the company may purchase up to $50 million of its common stock over the next 12 months.
Since February 2010, SonoSite has repurchased a total of approximately three million shares of its common stock through a modified “Dutch Auction” tender offer [...]

Ultrasound Market Set for Recovery

After a down year in 2009 and continued challenges in 2010, the global ultrasound market will return to growth in 2011, according to a report from market research firm InMedica.
The ultrasound imaging equipment sector generated $4.9 million in revenues in 2009, down 6% from 2008, according to the Wellingborough, U.K.-based firm. Healthcare spending cuts and [...]

Janet Roe, University of Iowa, Named Most Effective Radiology Administrator by Aunt Minnie

AuntMinnie.com sponsors a campaign every year to recognize individuals in the radiology field and institutions for their excellence in radiology. Candidates are nominated by AuntMinnie.com members, and finalists are selected by an expert panel of radiology professionals. This year 137 candidates in 13 categories were nominated. Of these candidates, Janet Roe, Technical Director of Diagnostic [...]

GE Awarded $1.2M NIH Grant

GE Healthcare sister company GE Global Research has been awarded a two-year $1.2 million grant under the U.S. government’s stimulus program from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The grant was awarded to develop a low-cost transducer for portable ultrasound systems that will produce high-quality [...]

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