December Innovations

SmartDraw

Now healthcare professionals can create patient handouts, anatomical diagrams, healthcare facility floor plans, case management timelines, schedules, flowcharts and org charts in just minutes. The SmartDraw Healthcare Edition is easy-to- use graphics software that contains thousands of healthcare images and graphics — including more than 3,000 medical images from Lippincott and Netter images from Elsevier — as well as predrawn templates that users can modify to create diagrams in minutes. A new version is available as of September 2007 — the SmartDraw Healthcare Edition 2008. Now ordinary computer users can create presentationquality healthcare graphics in just five minutes. Just select your template, input your data, and SmartDraw will do the work.

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Spellex Corporation

Spellex Corporation announces a new version of their popular medical and pharmaceutical spelling software for Microsoft and other programs. The new 2007 release includes specialty words from the medical and pharmaceutical industries. The dictionaries offer an excellent alternative to paper medical dictionaries and pharmaceutical word books. By adding the software to a common English-language spell checker, the spell checkers will verify correctly spelled medical and pharmaceutical words and provide correct spelling choices for incorrectly spelled terms. The spell checkers also allow users to verify unsure spelling of medical and pharmaceutical words by phonetic or typographical search as they type. Both the standard English language dictionary and the Spellex specialty dictionaries are checked simultaneously with one mouse click.

Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp.

Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp. is pleased to introduce the Flexible Scope Cleaning Kit. The brush kit contains two brushes measuring 240 cm in overall length. The first has two distinct ends, one measuring 3 mm, the other 6 mm, both designed for cleaning the biopsy channel. The second 240 cm brush is our exclusive “Clean-N-Dry™” brush, which has a 3 mm end and a sponge end designed for drying. The remaining three brushes have been designed to clean the air/water suction valve. All brushes in the kit have been produced using antimicrobial, medical grade, nylon bristles.

Siemens Medical Solutions

Siemens Medical Solutions has released a new version of syngo® Colonography PEV (Polyp Enhanced Viewing), an automated second reader tool for the visualization of lesions in the colon. The solution helps radiologists to detect polyp-shaped objects between 6 mm and 25 mm, and can now be used both in clean-prepped and solid-liquid tagged protocols. With the new version, syngo Colonography PEV delivers the benefits of computer-assisted reading to a wider range of protocols commonly applied in CT colonography today, including stool tagging agents. The PEV tool is seamlessly integrated into the syngo Colonography CT application.

Molnlycke Healthcare

Molnlycke Healthcare US, LLC, introduces BioExam™, a powder-free, non-latex, sterile examination glove. The glove is designed with a longer cuff for better coverage and protection, and for over-gloving during patient draping to maintain sterility. The nitrile ambidextrous glove combines fit with excellent puncture resistance. It features a polymer inner coating for ease of donning, and is packaged like surgical gloves — in a peel pouch for easy donning to maintain sterility. It is available in singles or pairs. The glove features an Acceptable Quality Level for freedom from holes of 1.5 percent, well below the recommended maximums.

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