Monday, November 16, 2009

More Details About The New GE Vscan Ultrasound System

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Dr. David Winchester, our colleague at Medgadget's sister site Echojournal, is attending the ongoing American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2009 in Orlando, Florida. Via a company rep, he obtained some more details on the amazingly tiny GE Vscan portable ultrasound device that we recently covered. Additionally, GE has announced that the company is beginning clinical impact evaluations of the device at a number of hospitals in Italy and Spain to see how clinicians use it in everyday situations.

1 hour operational battery life, 1 hour to charge

Interchangable battery with separate charger

WIll have software to interface stills and videos with EMRs

Stores clips as MPEG and stills as JPEG

Storage appeared to be on a standard microSD memory card

Data is not locked and could be downloaded onto any computer via the memory card

CV, OBGyn, and Abd standard settings

Easy thumb control for zoom and gain

Voice recording at time of scan for patient info

Color flow doppler on the entire screen

Dock interface is very iTunes-like with files arranged by an assigned 'study number'

Availability is supposed to be next year

Price supposed to be under $10,000

Here again is a video we filmed at a GE event last month of a demonstration of the Vscan:

Press release: GE Healthcare collaborates with USP Hospitales in Spain, and Federico II, University of Naples in Italy, to evaluate latest ultrasound innovation ...

Flashbacks: A Closer Look at GE's Vscan Pocket Ultrasound ; GE's New Ultra Small Ultrasound May Become as Ubiquitous as Stethoscope

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