Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Moore Medical Center Staff Bravely Faced Tornado’s Direct Hit
When a natural disaster such as a tornado strikes a major medical facility, it removes the key “go-to” place that [...] Read More »
API Healthcare and TeleTracking Join Forces
In an early May press release API Healthcare, one of the leading healthcare workforce management software providers, announced a partnership with TeleTracking Technologies, known for their large market share in real-time capacity management (a.k.a., bed management) solutions. Both vendors focus exclusively on the healthcare market and will reportedly collaborate to help improve hospital operations by combining their data sets for predictive patient demand modeling. Read More »
Skytron Site Visit
Recently Josh Mayfield, our Director of Corporate Accounts, and I visited Skytron’s head office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There Mr. David Mehney, Skytron’s president and CEO, shared his vision of the company with us. He believes Skytron is focus on helping providers address cost by providing diverse products with lower cost of ownership. This is something that is supported by MD Buyline own data. Our budget planner has shown Skytons to have a lower cost of ownership compared to the market averages while providing competitive reliability. Read More »
Quidel’s Amplivue for Faster C. diff Detection
Despite a decline in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) as reported by the Center for Disease Control, infections from the bacteria C. [...] Read More »
What is Samsung Health & Medical Equipment?
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the RSNA 2012 Meeting and was warned ahead of time to be on [...] Read More »
Trophon® EPR: High-Level Disinfection for Ultrasound Transducers Made Easy
Sonographers rejoice! Disinfecting ultrasound probes just got simpler and less dangerous with the Trophon EPR by Nanosonics. Approved by the [...] Read More »
More Proposed Reimbursement Cuts for Radiation Oncology
It seems that every year the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finds additional ways to cut reimbursement for [...] Read More »
18-FDOPA PET Imaging for Brain Tumors
Tumor volume evaluated by using 18F Phenylalanine positron emission tomography shows response to initial treatment within two weeks in patients [...] Read More »
Medical Imaging at the 2012 Summer Olympics
In my life before MD Buyline, I gained experience in Sports Medicine X-rays while working as a contracted radiographer at an NFL stadium in the late 90s; so I knew that medical imaging would be readily available to the Olympic athletes to some degree. However, after brushing up on a few updates and press releases, I found out that the depth and breadth of imaging modalities located in London’s Polyclinics today, which are provided by GE Healthcare, are a far cry from the portable X-ray unit, film processor and view box I used sixteen years ago during the Atlanta Falcons’ home games. Despite this, the goal has remained the same: get the medical imaging procedure done quickly and accurately, get the results to the right people and get the athlete back in the game if the results support that decision. Read More »
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Worried It’s Skin Cancer? There’s an App for that
Worried that unusual looking spot may be skin cancer? Put your fears at ease. Researchers at the University of Michigan [...] Read More »