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Steve Miller, Vice President of Product Realization at Sonosite (1 of 3)
Steve Miller discusses his experiences as the Vice President of Product Realization at Sonosite
Meet Steve Miller, the Vice President of Product Realization at FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc. Steve Miller joined Sonosite in July 2011. His career in ultrasound began in 1987 with Philips Ultrasound where he led advanced development projects in B-mode and Color Doppler. In 1992, he joined GE Healthcare to work on their first high-end digital ultrasound system as a senior systems engineer. As GE’s ultrasound business expanded, he was promoted into global principal engineering roles leading new global…
More than 1000 Preventable Deaths Each Day in the US Health Care System
FUJIFILM SONOSITE APPLAUDS US SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING ON THE NEED TO ADDRESS PREVENTABLE DEATHS IN US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging to Explore Stemming More Than 1000 Preventable Deaths Each Day In The US Healthcare System
BOTHELL, WA, July 17, 2014 – FUJIFILM Sonosite Inc., the world leader and specialist in ultrasound performed at the point-of-care, applauds the US Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging for having a hearing to explore ways to stem the more than 1000 preventable patient deaths a day in the US healthcare system.
“This crisis needs…
The Magic of Ultrasound at C-Booth (LA County/University of Southern California)
The Magic of Ultrasound at C-Booth (LA County/University of South California) By Chanel Fischetti, MS4 University of California Irvine School of Medicine What happens when you combine Sonosite ultrasound technology, C booth, and enthusiastic medical students? You find the inspiration for an enhanced medical education. On August 13th, more than 50 medical students voluntarily attended the first ultrasound student elective hosted in the infamous C booth, now a simulation centre for students and residents. The course opened with a guest lecture by Dr. Chris Fox to help set the stage for…
Ultrasound: The Swiss-army-knife-of-health-care.
Ultrasound: The Swiss-army-knife-of-health-care.
Medical Students sharpen your transducers and come to Stanford ULTRAfest!
Stanford is center of diagnostic ultrasound research, education and training. On Oct. 18, the school will host ULTRAfest, a full day of free ultrasound instruction open to any medical student in the country. Experienced clinicians from several medical specialties will serve as teachers. Last year, more than 300 medical students from the western United States participated in the event.
The School of Medicine already has incorporated ultrasound into its anatomy…
Penn doctor prepares to fight Ebola in Liberia
This is such an inspiring story! Trish Henwood, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, will travel to Liberia to work with the International Medicine Corps treating Ebola.
She will be entering the epicenter of the largest known Ebola epidemic, which has infected 8,914 people in West Africa and killed at least 4,447, according to the World Health Organization. More than half the reported deaths have been in Liberia. And the WHO predicts that 1.4 million people could soon be infected if aid efforts aren't increased. Trish is among a…
Sonosite working in Rwanda with the PURE team
This past March three PURE traveled to Rwanda to teach point of care ultrasound to 15 internal medicine resident trainees as well as 11 general practitioners working in the emergency department at the country’s main government teaching and referral hospital. The teaching took place at the Centre Hospitalier Universitarie de Kigali (CHUK) Simulation Centre, and on the wards of CHUK. The trainees were highly motivated and eager to learn how to use the many new Sonosite machines recently purchased by the Ministry of Health for use in their hospitals. The PURE training group lectured on…
From Volume to Value
Finance leaders should understand the drivers of cost and quality in their organizations, including how best to make cost-effective use of technologies.
Ultrasound, in particular, can provide a means to improve quality of care and reduce costs because it can help a hospital avoid costly mistakes, can sometimes serve as a substitute for more expensive scans, and can help reduce the risk of extra days in the hospital.
Optimum use of ultrasound can help to improve performance on measures that …
Morocco - Mobile Ultrasound Update
Dr Katof AbdelkhalekIf you have not read our previous blog The Morocco Mobile Ultrasound Patrol, I highly recommend that you follow the link: The Morocco Mobile Ultrasound Patrol It is a solution driven article, inspiring all POC ultrasound technicians to reach beyond the day to day borders that we usually work in. It highlights a united effort between Qualcomm Wireless Reach, Trice Imaging Inc., FUJIFILM Sonosite Inc., and Sony. Now Qualcomm has released a video featuring Dr. Katof Abdelkhalek as he travels to remote regions in Morocco using the M-Turbo Ultrasound.…
The evidence is stacking up. POC ultrasound is a game changer.
How an old technology became a disruptive innovation
TEDMED 2014: Resa Lewiss, Directorof Point-of-Care Ultrasound and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Radiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, explains why and how ultrasound at the bedside became a game changer for clinical care.
This 6 minute video talks about situations where lives were changed as a result of Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Follow the link.
http://tedmed.com/talks/show?id=293054&videoId=495902&ref=about-this-talk
Update from the Penn Doctor who went to Liberia to treat Ebola
Report from an Ebola treatment center in Liberia from Dr. Trish Henwood.
Trish Henwood is an emergency room doctor and Director of Global Health Initiatives in the department of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is in Bong County, Liberia, working at an Ebola treatment center run by the International Medical Corps.
Since establishing the Ebola treatment center the number of new ebola cases has decreased significantly in Bong County.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20141102_Report_from_an_Ebola_treatment_center.html
Sonosite supports PURE in Uganda
PURE – Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments:
PURE is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization comprised of medical professionals and others dedicated to enhancing ultrasound education and use in the developing world.
As one of our global initiatives, Sonosite is proud to support PURE with M-Turbo equipment. Its portability and resilience make it a perfect solution when travelling to resource-limited environments.
With such remote locations as Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda, PURE has been able to provide ultrasound training for more than 150 clinicians over the last…
How Sonosite is Helping to Fight Ebola
Dr. Trish Henwood
From ground zero of the Ebola outbreak – Dr.Trish Henwood is on a medical mission to better understand the pathophysiology of the disease and her Sonosite ultrasound has already been proven invaluable. It is pioneer physicians like Trish that will allow the global medical community to get a grasp on this devastating illness and with our support she is actually making that happen.
Yippie; my machine arrived
We received a wonderful letter from Trish today telling us about some of the work she has been doing in Liberia:
Not surprisingly, in just a brief period of use…
Bringing Health Care to Remote Communities
Watch our 6 part series, coming soon. Compelling footage from the Floating Doctors. Medical teams travel in open boats to provide treatment, education and training to remote communities without access to healthcare. This new video series takes us on their journey as they demonstrate the role hand-carried ultrasound can play administering medicine in such isolated places. Watch how a timely ultrasound exam prevents a breach birth in the jungle; see a small child diagnosed with a serious heart condition, and more. Dr. Ben La Brot's non-profit organisation has treated thousands of patients…
Getting the Edge on Diagnosis
Part 1 of our compelling 6 part series.
The Floating Doctors set up a mobile clinic in the village community of Bahia Grande on the Panamanian coastline. See Dr. Ben La Brot use the Edge system for the first time as he performs a gallbladder scan on an elderly woman with abdominal pain.
Those few simple words: 'would you like to watch?' show just how profound a change hand-carried ultrasound is bringing to the relationship between clinician and patient.
Dr. Ben La Brot of Floating Doctors puts a new Edge system through it's paces as he uses the technology to judge the severity of…
Gustavino's story
Part 2 of our compelling 6 part series.
The second video in this extraordinary series shows Gustavino, a frail boy with a fast deteriorating heart condition living high up in the mountains, 5 hour's hard trek from Pueblo Nuevo, Panama. Making the journey on foot, Floating Doctors founder, Dr. Ben La Brot defies the geography and other obstacles to link up Gustavino's medical needs and recovery with cardiologists hundreds of miles away.
High up in the mountains above Pueblo Nuevo, Panama, the young boy Gustavino struggles with an unknown heart defect leaving him short of breath, weak…
Mind's eye view
Part 3 of our compelling 6 part series.
In a makeshift clinic at a coastal community in Panama, Mackenzie, one of Floating Doctors young volunteers from Yale checks out a headmaster's kidney problem, her first examination using ultrasound. The ease and speed with which she familiarizes herself with the machine and gets the patient's kidney up on screen is remarkable. The clarity of the sonogram gives the physicians the information on which they decide treatment for patient Rigoberto's painful inflammation.
School teacher Rigoberto is struggling with pain from a kidney problem. Dr…
Spreading the Vision
Part 4 of our compelling 6 part series.
Panamanian panteras, or midwives, come together in a remote community to learn how to use hand-carried ultrasound scanners. Guided by a medical student from UCI, and using Sonosite Edge machines, they soon see how to recognise the placenta and position of the baby on screen, a live view that will alert them to potential delivery difficulties and other pregnancy complications.
A group of eager Panamanian midwives, 'parteras', are shown how to use ultrasound machines in their own remote communities for the first time. UCI medical students help…
Natividad wins Trauma II designation
Surgical services staff applauds at a ceremony on Monday marking Natividad Medical Center's designation as a Level II Trauma Center for Monterey County. To help them in their work, trauma center staff has 51 pieces of new equipment. Walls singles out Sonosite portable ultrasound as one of his favorite pieces of equipment.:
Sonosite portable ultrasound machine."It can instantly look inside your abdoman and chest to see if there's bleeding. It allows us to do a 'fast exam.' In a few seconds, I can look in both sides of your abdomen, around your heart ... and tell the trauma surgeon whether you…
More from the front of the Ebola fight in Africa
Penn doctor going back for second tour fighting Ebola in Africa
Henwood in the protective gear that prevented her use of a stethoscope, with the ultrasound machine she used to check patients instead.
After spending five weeks working in an Ebola treatment unit, Dr Trish Henwood is going back for a second tour fighting Ebola in Africa.
She feels the work is vitally important, that great progress is being made, that the virus can be stopped, and that America must continue its support in fighting the deadly virus and epidemic.
She spent five weeks in Bong County, a remote area in Northern…