From the December 2015 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine



Patient Monitoring System
Qualcomm Incorporated announced that Capsule, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Life, Inc., has received FDA 510(k) clearance of SmartLinx Vitals Plus, a patient monitoring system that integrates vital signs monitoring and clinical documentation into one scalable platform. SmartLinx Vitals Plus, part of Capsule’s SmartLinx Medical Device Information System™, is a powerful alternative to traditional low acuity monitors. It provides new functionality in a single platform that allows hospitals and other health care facilities to streamline user authentication, patient identification, vitals measurement and clinical documentation by integrating vital signs modules and components directly to the SmartLinx NeuronTM 2 mobile clinical computer.


Patient Relationship Management Solution

Salesforce recently launched its first industry product built specifically for health care. Salesforce Health Cloud is a cloud-based, patient relationship management solution. It helps providers build stronger, one-to-one relationships; make smarter care decisions; and connect with their patients anywhere, on any device. It features a Today screen with alerts to caregivers on timely patient issues; Patient Profiles and Timeline views that provide a central view of a patient’s history and easy-to-read clinical data for providers; Private Communities that allow care coordinators to collaborate and assign tasks across a caregiver’s network; and Salesforce Shield, a set of built-in features that allow providers to manage, audit and archive patient data.


New Full-field Digital Mammography System
Siemens Healthcare recently announced the FDA has cleared the Mammomat Fusion mammography system.The system features a new generation cesium-iodide detector — an innovative, layered configuration of the photo diodes within the detector that enables more efficient utilization of the radiation dose. The result: high image quality at a patient dose that is at or below the range of other full-field digital mammography systems, with an even lower dose delivered in cases where the patient’s breast thickness exceeds 50 mm. And the system’s large image matrix of 23x30 cm makes the Mammomat Fusion the right choice for screening various breast sizes.

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