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Researchers to Develop Robots for Hospital Emergency Room

Researchers at the Vanderbilt University have presented a new proposal for reducing the wait time at the hospital emergency room by developing exclusive robots.

10 Dec 2010

Mary Washington Hospital Sponsors Public Event to Operate da Vinci Robot

The Robotics Department of Mary Washington Hospital has conducted a public event for creating awareness about robot-assisted procedure amidst common people.

10 Dec 2010

Technical Communities Partners with Hamilton Robotics

Technical Communities has made a government services collaboration contract with Hamilton Robotics, pioneer in developing laboratory automation systems.

10 Dec 2010

ASHP Midyear Conference to Include Aethon’s Automated Tracking and Delivery Solutions

Aethon, global leader in developing hospital robots, has announced that its fully automated tracking and delivery solutions for hospital pharmacies will be displayed at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Conference, Anaheim Convention Center.

10 Dec 2010

Elekta Obtains FDA Clearance for Automated Spot Scanning

Elekta has obtained the 510(k) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its XiO software, which is a therapy decision software for automated spot scanning.

9 Dec 2010

Cardinal Health to Integrate CardinalASSIST with Omnicell’s Automated Dispensing Systems

Cardinal Health has declared the inclusion of CardinalASSIST, an automated medication refilling service, in Omnicell’s automated medication dispensing systems at the 45th Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), California.

9 Dec 2010

Jefferson Hospital Presents Investigation Outcomes of Automated COR Analyzer System

A team of doctors at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, have released the outcomes of an investigation revealing the potential of a completely automated analysis of coronary CT angiography (cCTA) by the COR Analyzer System of Rcadia.

9 Dec 2010

Physicians Regional Procures da Vinci Si Surgical Robot

Naples-based Physicians Regional Healthcare System has procured the Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Si Surgical System along with a dual console and has become the first-ever robotics program on the West coast of Florida to include the dual console.

9 Dec 2010

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center Offer Robotic Knee Surgery

Orthopedic surgeons at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center are utilizing the RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System to carry out partial knee replacement procedures for preliminary to middle stage osteoarthritis patients.

9 Dec 2010

Coming to the ER Soon: TriageBot

At the Humanoids 2010 conference held in Nashville this week a paper was presented on robotic help in ERs (emergency rooms) by author Mitch Wilkes, titled,"Heterogeneous Artificial Agents for Triage Nurse Assistance". Wilkes is the associate director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Vanderbilt University.

8 Dec 2010