CompView Medical Forms Strategic Alliance With GE Healthcare.CompView Medical's All-In-One Equipment Management and Visualization System Key Component of GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. OEC OEC Outdoor Emergency Care OEC Oxygen Evolving Complex (photosynthesis) OEC Ohio Environmental Council OEC Office of Environmental Coordination (New York, NY) OEC Oregon Employer Council Surgery Division's Product Portfolio BEAVERTON, Ore. -- CompView Medical, a leading provider of integrated audio-visual systems for healthcare environments, today announced a monumental partnership with GE Healthcare through their General Electric Healthcare OEC Surgery Division (GE OEC), whereby GE OEC will be a distributor of the CompView Medical NuBOOM[R] video integration and equipment management system. This unique agreement enhances the minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedure market that GE OEC supports as the combined efforts of both companies provide a complete surgical solution for in-patient hospital facilities and outpatient ambulatory surgical centers (ASC's). This is the first time video integration equipment has been represented by a surgical fluoroscopic Fluoroscopic (fluoroscopy) An x-ray procedure that produces immediate images and motion on a screen. The images look like those seen at airport baggage security stations. Mentioned in: Hypotonic Duodenography imaging company. NuBOOM is the only all-in-one equipment management and video visualization system that delivers four fully adjustable high definition (HD) monitors around the operating room operating room n. Abbr. OR A room equipped for performing surgical operations. table. The system provides surgeons and members of the operating room (OR) staff ergonomically-sound viewing angles of high quality images from anywhere within the operating field. "We're excited to have GE OEC as a distribution partner," said Paul White Paul White may refer to:
GE OEC, part of the GE Healthcare division, is the market leader in Mobile C-Arm Fluoroscopy fluoroscopy /flu·o·ros·co·py/ (fldbobr-ros´kah-pe) examination by means of the fluoroscope. fluo·ros·co·py n. Examination by means of a fluoroscope. Also called radioscopy. systems. The company develops computer-based X-ray and fluoroscopic imaging systems for hospitals, outpatient clinics and surgical centers. The firm's X-ray imaging systems combine radiographic radiographic (rā´dēōgraf´ik), adj relating to the process of radiography, the finished product, or its use. and fluoroscopic imaging with digital image-processing capabilities to improve image quality, lower X-ray dosage and reduce costs. Doctors use GE OEC's products during minimally invasive procedures Minimally invasive surgical procedures avoid open invasive surgery in favor of closed or local surgery with less trauma. These procedures involve use of laparoscopic devices and remote-control manipulation of instruments with indirect observation of the surgical field through an to help them see what they are doing. "GE Healthcare OEC Surgery Division is thrilled to be partnering with CompView Medical, as a distributor for the NuBOOM video integration and equipment management system," said Steven F. Penderghast, National Sales Manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → of GE OEC. "The NuBOOM complements GE OEC's product portfolio of Mobile C-Arm Fluoroscopic Systems, surgical imaging tables and accessories. GE OEC continually strives to meet our customer's demands for imaging and equipment solutions to support high tech minimally invasive surgery. The NuBOOM is a key component of that solution, and is another reason why our customers continue to rely on GE OEC to provide the best technology available in a demanding market." About General Electric Healthcare GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Their expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit www.gehealthcare.com. CompView Medical's History CompView Medical entered the MIS market in 2005, seizing the opportunity and need for better ergonomics ergonomics, the engineering science concerned with the physical and psychological relationship between machines and the people who use them. The ergonomicist takes an empirical approach to the study of human-machine interactions. and MIS visualization technologies in the OR. The group's two primary products, NuBOOM and DOCS(TM), directly challenge industry standards on a number of levels. Installation of ceiling mounted equipment management and visualization systems generally exceeds 30 days and requires a degree of remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling , while NuBOOM is typically installed in less than two days with no remodeling. NuBOOM delivers MIS suite capability at one-half of the cost associated with upgrading OR suites with ceiling mounted systems because there is no requirement for overhead structural work. About CompView Medical Beaverton, Oregon-based CompView Medical (www.compviewmedical.com) is a private company specializing in the design and integration of audio-visual systems with proven success for healthcare environments including ORs, exam rooms and medical consultation areas. CompView Medical is built upon its parent company's over 20 years of technology expertise specializing in systems integration and group communication within the rapidly emerging audio-visual and group medical communications marketplace. |
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