{"id":3408,"date":"2010-03-25T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2010\/03\/25\/3408\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:41:07","slug":"3408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/3408\/","title":{"rendered":"palm sized ultrasound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Topping Fast Co.\u2019s innovators list as Vscan rolls out<\/p>\n

GE\u2019s healthcare technologies have been in the spotlight in recent days, with one of the most noticeable being a tip of the hat from the tech gurus at Fast Company magazine. Each year they kick the tires on a slew of some of the biggest household names \u2014 from Apple to Nike to the folks at Facebook \u2014 to arrive at their \u201cMost Innovative Companies\u201d rankings. This year in the Healthcare category, GE grabbed the No. 1 spot. As Mike Barber, who heads GE\u2019s healthymagination initiative, told the magazine: \u201cWe believe that what is good for the public at large and what is good for the world is also good business.\u201d Fast Company says it picked GE for the top healthcare spot precisely because \u201csix GE breakthroughs from the past year deliver on that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new technologies include the smart-phone-sized Vscan ultrasound, which is pictured below, as \u201cit lets primary-care doctors make diagnoses that once required a specialist,\u201d the editors note. The Fast Company ranking comes just days after the new technology became commercially available in the U.S., Europe, India and Canada having received 510(k) clearance in the U.S. By the Food and Drug Administration, the CE Mark by the European Union, as well as the Medical Device License from Health Canada.<\/p>\n

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Making the Olympic cut: Vscan is seen here in action last week in GE\u2019s Mobile Medical Unit \u2013 which is currently helping athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. \u201cVscan may help change frontline healthcare practice \u2013 improving patient management during the physical exam by providing immediate, non-invasive, visual information inside the body,\u201d said Dr. Ross Brown, manager of the Whistler Polyclinic, pictured above<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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