SonoSite MicroMaxx Wireless Capability Improves Delivery of Care at Toronto Hospitals
November 27 2006 - 5:30AM
Business Wire
SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried
ultrasound, today highlighted the gains in patient care that
Toronto�s University Health Network (UHN) and Mount Sinai Hospital
attribute to their deployment of a single MicroMaxx� hand-carried
ultrasound system across three separate emergency departments. The
MicroMaxx system is being showcased this week at the 92nd Annual
Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, being held at
McCormick Place in Chicago, in SonoSite�s Booth #4948. A single
on-call sonographer with a MicroMaxx system is able to provide
overnight ultrasound services to the emergency departments at
256-bed Toronto Western and 471-bed Toronto General, both part of
UHN, and the 472-bed Mount Sinai hospitals. With the MicroMaxx
system�s advanced wireless connectivity, the sonographer sends
images as they are taken to a centralized picture archiving and
communication system (PACS) in a radiology suite, where a
radiologist provides real-time diagnostic evaluations to the
emergency physicians. The MicroMaxx system has been programmed to
work seamlessly across the distinct wireless security algorithms
deployed by UHN and Mount Sinai, and automatically connects to the
PACS network as the sonographer moves from department to
department. �With this model, UHN and Mount Sinai have created a
flexible, cost-efficient means of ensuring that patients in the
emergency department have access to ultrasound imaging services
during the overnight hours, during which the hospitals� radiology
suites do not operate,� said Scott Jarrett, Administrative Director
for UHN and Mount Sinai�s Joint Department for Medical Imaging.
�While we chose the MicroMaxx system for its exceptional image
quality, its portability and wireless connectivity have improved
our ability to diagnose patients who enter our EDs in the middle of
the night. These attributes allow us to provide an additional,
value-added service to the emergency department.� �Point-of-care
ultrasound exams are now performed in the emergency department,
where once overnight patients in the ED had to wait for radiology
to re-open for an ultrasound scan,� continued Mr. Jarrett.
�Typically a sonographer performing a remote study would archive
the images from multiple exams for a single download to the PACS
upon return to the department. But the MicroMaxx�s real-time
wireless PACS connection allows a remote radiologist to read the
images as they are taken and provide immediate feedback to the
emergency physician, ultimately contributing to a faster,
potentially life-saving diagnosis.� �This smart, creative use of
hand-carried ultrasound underscores the unique convergence of
exceptional image quality, extreme portability, and advanced
wireless connectivity available in the MicroMaxx system,� said
Thomas J. Dugan, SonoSite�s Senior Vice President for Marketing and
U.S. Sales. �And with its small footprint, light weight, fast
boot-up time and long battery life,� Mr. Dugan continued, �the
MicroMaxx system is easy to move from patient to patient across
three separate emergency departments, one of which is ten minutes
away from the others, by car!� About the MicroMaxx System Weighing
less than 8 pounds, the portability and high performance of the
MicroMaxx system is rapidly changing patient assessment at the
point of care in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, vascular
access, critical care and even in the physician�s office. A 5-year
warranty on the system and most of its transducers is a standard
feature which dramatically lowers the cost of owning a system in an
industry that typically charges 10 - 15% of a product�s purchase
price in annual service contracts. About SonoSite SonoSite, Inc.
(www.sonosite.com), the innovator and world leader in hand-carried
ultrasound, is headquartered near Seattle and is represented by
eight subsidiaries and a global distribution network in over 75
countries. SonoSite�s small, lightweight systems are expanding the
use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively
bringing high-performance ultrasound to the point of patient care.
The company employs approximately 500 people worldwide. SonoSite,
Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried ultrasound,
today highlighted the gains in patient care that Toronto's
University Health Network (UHN) and Mount Sinai Hospital attribute
to their deployment of a single MicroMaxx(R) hand-carried
ultrasound system across three separate emergency departments. The
MicroMaxx system is being showcased this week at the 92nd Annual
Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, being held at
McCormick Place in Chicago, in SonoSite's Booth #4948. A single
on-call sonographer with a MicroMaxx system is able to provide
overnight ultrasound services to the emergency departments at
256-bed Toronto Western and 471-bed Toronto General, both part of
UHN, and the 472-bed Mount Sinai hospitals. With the MicroMaxx
system's advanced wireless connectivity, the sonographer sends
images as they are taken to a centralized picture archiving and
communication system (PACS) in a radiology suite, where a
radiologist provides real-time diagnostic evaluations to the
emergency physicians. The MicroMaxx system has been programmed to
work seamlessly across the distinct wireless security algorithms
deployed by UHN and Mount Sinai, and automatically connects to the
PACS network as the sonographer moves from department to
department. "With this model, UHN and Mount Sinai have created a
flexible, cost-efficient means of ensuring that patients in the
emergency department have access to ultrasound imaging services
during the overnight hours, during which the hospitals' radiology
suites do not operate," said Scott Jarrett, Administrative Director
for UHN and Mount Sinai's Joint Department for Medical Imaging.
"While we chose the MicroMaxx system for its exceptional image
quality, its portability and wireless connectivity have improved
our ability to diagnose patients who enter our EDs in the middle of
the night. These attributes allow us to provide an additional,
value-added service to the emergency department." "Point-of-care
ultrasound exams are now performed in the emergency department,
where once overnight patients in the ED had to wait for radiology
to re-open for an ultrasound scan," continued Mr. Jarrett.
"Typically a sonographer performing a remote study would archive
the images from multiple exams for a single download to the PACS
upon return to the department. But the MicroMaxx's real-time
wireless PACS connection allows a remote radiologist to read the
images as they are taken and provide immediate feedback to the
emergency physician, ultimately contributing to a faster,
potentially life-saving diagnosis." "This smart, creative use of
hand-carried ultrasound underscores the unique convergence of
exceptional image quality, extreme portability, and advanced
wireless connectivity available in the MicroMaxx system," said
Thomas J. Dugan, SonoSite's Senior Vice President for Marketing and
U.S. Sales. "And with its small footprint, light weight, fast
boot-up time and long battery life," Mr. Dugan continued, "the
MicroMaxx system is easy to move from patient to patient across
three separate emergency departments, one of which is ten minutes
away from the others, by car!" About the MicroMaxx System Weighing
less than 8 pounds, the portability and high performance of the
MicroMaxx system is rapidly changing patient assessment at the
point of care in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, vascular
access, critical care and even in the physician's office. A 5-year
warranty on the system and most of its transducers is a standard
feature which dramatically lowers the cost of owning a system in an
industry that typically charges 10 - 15% of a product's purchase
price in annual service contracts. About SonoSite SonoSite, Inc.
(www.sonosite.com), the innovator and world leader in hand-carried
ultrasound, is headquartered near Seattle and is represented by
eight subsidiaries and a global distribution network in over 75
countries. SonoSite's small, lightweight systems are expanding the
use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively
bringing high-performance ultrasound to the point of patient care.
The company employs approximately 500 people worldwide.
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