New Increased Tax Deductions on Ultrasound!
Newly increased: Deduct up to $500k on ultrasound through December 31!
Increase quality of patient care by adding ultrasound to your practice by utilizing tax incentives and 0% financing available through December 2015.
Newly increased tax deductions! Take advantage of the Section 179 tax incentives through December 31: Deduct $500k on all capital equipment investments up to $2M.
Also, get 0% financing for 36 months on Sonosite ultrasound systems. …
iViz has 510(k) clearance from the FDA
Sonosite iViz receives 510k and FDA approval mid November, after two months of receiving the CE Mark for Europe in mid September. “iViz is a revolutionary solutions for clinicians and represents a landmark in FUJIFILM Sonosite's innovation. It achieves new levels of image performance and provides unprecedented connectivity in a highly mobile platform”. …
An Active September in the Nation's Capital
DOT.Med
Jill Rathbun
Continuing in a series of Federal policy updates,
Jill Rathbun of Galileo Consulting provides the latest news on imaging policy and payments.
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Glimpse Episode 9: Interview with Chanel Fischetti & Joelle Schlang
Joelle and Chanel attended the University of California in Los Angeles. They were fortunate enough to be introduced to ultrasound on their first day of medical school.
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Glimpse Episode 8: Dr. John Christian Fox and Joel Schlang Discuss Medical Education
Join Dr. John Christian Fox and Joelle Schlang as they discuss the role of ultrasound in medical education. Students at UCI receive more than 50 hours of hands-on ultrasound training, starting the first week of their first year at medical school. This education is continued for two years allowing students to experience the benefits of ultrasound both as a diagnostic tool and a learning tool.
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Global Health: Improving Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Matagalpa Region of Nicaragua
Breast cancer has become the leading cause of mortality for women in Nicaragua, overtaking the incidence of death due to childbirth or cervical cancer. In Nicaragua, survival after breast cancer diagnosis is poor, mostly due to the late stage at presentation. A key to improving survival is to promote early detection of breast cancer. …
Trice Imaging, Inc. and FUJIFILM Sonosite Announce iViz Portable Ultrasound Device Integration at Health 2.0
Global Health: Hospital Baptiste Biblique Togo, West Africa
“Attached is a thank you letter from all of us here at HBB/Togo—medical/surgical missionaries, Togolese staff, and the patients who have derived benefit from the use of the Sonosite M-Turbo ultrasound machine. Read and enjoy the pictures.”
Learn more about Sonosite's SoundCaring program.
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Glimpse Episode 7: Dr. Alan Chiem
Watch and listen to Dr. Alan Chiem as he discusses the benefits of early ultrasound training for medical students and how he uses ultrasound in the emergency room setting to both diagnose and guide therapies for patients with heart failure.
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Glimpse Episode 6: Dr. Tarina Kang
Dr. Tarina Kang is the Director of Emergency Medicine Ultrasound at LAC+USC and a Professor of Emergency Medicine. In this interview she discusses the types of post graduate training for practical ultrasound guided procedures as well as basic and advanced ultrasound applications.
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Ultrasound-Guided Procedures: Financial and Safety Benefits
ICU Management
Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC, Chief Medical Officer at Sonosite, and clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Southern California
Dr. Mandavia discusses how ultrasound guidance adds value to both patient safety and removing costs from healthcare delivery.
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Final 2016 Medicare Inpatient Rule Contains Provisions to Promote Patient Safety
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Final 2016 Medicare Inpatient Rule Contains Provisions to Promote Patient Safety
Jill Rathbun
Jill Rathbun of Galileo Consulting, in her continuing contribution to Dot.Med, explains key points for the FY 2016 CMS Inpatient Prospective Payment Final Rule. Ultrasound plays a role in the Hospital Acquired Condition Program and may contribute to lowering complications.
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Global Health: Sonosite Supports Help In Motion Mobile Hospitals
German charity Help in Motion has recently launched two off-road vehicles, carrying state-of-the-art medical equipment and basic medication. Help in Motion is staffed by volunteers from the well-established charity German Doctors.
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Glimpse Episode 5: Dr. Byron Patterson Discusses Visual Medicine
Growing up as an athlete gave Dr. Patterson some of the insights into how athletes push themselves through pain and often end up with worse injuries. …
Glimpse Episode 4: Dr. Francis Yamazaki, Discusses Anesthesia
Dr. Francis Yamazaki is a 30 year veteran in Anesthesiology. He is an Anesthesiologist with a cutting edge sports medicine group at Kerlan Jobe Surgery Center, LA. In this interview, he discusses the expectations of patients in the elite world of sports and the progression of anesthesia, particularly in the realm of nerve blocks. In particular how the progress of technology has improved safety for both patients and surgeons.
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Glimpse Episode 3: Liz Turner's Interview
Dr. Liz Turner, Director of Bedside Ultrasound for the Dept. of Medicine at UCLA, puts bedside ultrasound under the microscope. …
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Judith Anderson
On the use of Sonosite ultrasound in Goma
HEAL Africa acquired a Sonosite ultrasound system through the SoundCaring program to serve a hospital treating patients in a war zone. It is housed in the maternity ward but is often used in the Emergency Room.
The very large ultrasound machine at the hospital has been most often out of service due to technical issues since it arrived. HEAL Africa now has a functioning ultrasound machine 24/7! It has been a huge help in diagnosing life-threatening situations. Dr. Christophe Kimona, General Surgeon and Chief of Staff, told me of two situations where knowing where the trouble was made emergency surgery possible and life-saving. A ruptured spleen won’t wait. With the many traffic accidents, grenade explosions and emergencies related to war around Goma this small, portable, hardy ultrasound is vied-for among the departments. But is stays in the maternity department, where it routinely helps doctors provide better deliver care for the women of Goma. We thank Sonosite for helping us to provide better care for the people of Goma.
Judith Anderson is the Executive Director of HEAL Africa, a Monroe, Washington-based humanitarian organization. Learn more at www.healafrica.org. …
Haiti
Sachita Shah, MD, Emergency Medicine
in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake
Day 1 - Entering Haiti, January 27, 2010
When we flew in on Jan 16th to Port-au-Prince, the destruction was evident in many areas. The hardest hit included Carre Four with crumpled houses, which we could see from the plane. The airport was a military zone, and the UN compound had been crushed, with many armed UN and US military throughout the nearby area and various aid groups scrambling about. We were driven by Zanmi Lasante vehicles to several points, only to find the meeting places structurally questionable, finally ending up in an office where we divided into two teams: Saint Marc and Cange. We were on our way.
The streets were full of people, occasional collapsed houses, and long lines of cars near the scant gas pumps that actually had petrol. We arrived exhausted at Saint Marc and found the house empty-abandoned as people had left in a hurry to get back to PAP to find their families.
At the Hospital—Order from Chaos …
Rwanda
Steven C. Hall, MD, Anesthesiologist
Discusses use to Sonosite ultrasound during a medical mission to Gitwe, Rwanda
Medical Missions for Children is one of the largest nonprofit groups in the United States that provides surgical care for children and adults in some of the poorest and most underserved areas of the world. This is the fourth time a team went to Gitwe, Rwanda, to provide two weeks of free care. The team consisted of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses from around the U.S. Several of us had been there before. Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa and one of the poorest. Gitwe is a village in west central Rwanda that is isolated and without consistently reliable water and electricity resources. (This village is so small, you can’t even find it on Google Earth.) Our host for the trip was Reverend Gerard Urayeneza, a local minister and civic leader who has almost single-handedly built grammar and high schools, as well as a small hospital. There is very little medical care in this area, and surgery is not performed at the hospital when our team is not there.
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India and Morocco
Phil Arnold, MD
On the use of Sonosite ultrasound for paediatric cardiac anaesthesia in developing nations
Congenital heart disease is one of the most common forms of birth defect, affecting about one in 145 births in the UK or 4,600 babies every year1. About a third of these patients will require surgery, often early in life. Once performed, surgery can be effectively curative in many cases, the majority of these children will not require further surgery and be off all medications within a short period. Some children with more complex conditions will require medical treatment and follow up for much of their lives and may need further surgeries. In the UK around 5,000 heart operations are conducted for congenital heart disease each year and a further 4000 interventions are performed in children in catheter rooms (about 800,000 babies are born each year in the UK)2. …