GE Healthcare has just announced availability of its Vscan, the new and pocket-sized visualization tool designed for ensuring physicians an imaging capability at the point of care. As you can relate to from the picture to the left, the Vscan is merely the size of a smartphone, but housing a powerful and ultra-smart ultrasound technology that offers medical personnel a solution for immediate and non-invasive means of securing visual information regarding what is happening inside the body of a patient.

"Having Vscan at my disposal at all times has allowed me to use ultrasound in a number of settings and with patients that I wouldn't have anticipated before – from the ICU, to the outpatient clinic as well as with ambulatory patients," said Anthony N. DeMaria, MD, Professor of Medicine, Judith and Jack White Chair in Cardiology and Director, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. "Vscan is more than a simple diagnostic tool. The handheld device should help physicians make treatment decisions more quickly. I believe the Vscan technology will play an important role in physical exams."

The Vscan imaging device is 510 clearance-certified, in the U.S., by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the CE Mark by the European Union and even the Medical Device License from Health Canada, long before being available commercially in the U.S, Europe, India and Canada. What this allows was not impossible, but very inconvenient for doctors to take a quick look what's inside the body of patients, on site, thus enhancing the consultation's accuracy, and maybe detect disease earlier.

"During our initial evaluation of approximately 100 patients using Vscan, we have been impressed with its image quality and ease of use," stated Jose L. Zamorano, MD, FESC, Director, Cardiovascular Institute University Clinic San Carlos Madrid, Spain. "But even more important than that, we have experienced first hand the value of adding such a tool to our clinical and physical examination, adding clinically relevant information in roughly one out of every four patients."


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