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Medical Robotic Team at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Achieves Milestone

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Ingolf Tuerk, MD and his team’s latest achievement marks the 1,000th robotic-assisted prostatectomy. Within three years, this rare target was achieved by Tuerk, the chief of Urology and director of the Robotic-assisted Surgery Program St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.

21 May 2012

Self Regional Healthcare Installs Specimen-Moving Robot from Swisslog

South Carolina hospital deploys Swisslog RoboCourier autonomous mobile robot for automated laboratory transport.

19 May 2012

Numerex Develops Remote Monitoring of Heart Pump Technology of MicroMed Cardiovascular

Numerex, a single source supplier of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, recently declared that the company has created a comprehensive Device-Network-Application (DNA) solution that enables remote cellular monitoring of MicroMed Cardiovascular’s HeartAssist5 System.

19 May 2012

UCLA Study on Robotic-Assisted Prostate Surgery

Prostate cancer is the recurrent non-skin cancer in the U.S., while radical prostatectomy has been the preferred therapeutic option for most.

18 May 2012

OMNI’s Apex Robotic Technology Enables 1000 Successful Knee Replacements

OMNIlife science recently declared that around 1000 knee replacements were achieved based on OMNI’s APEX Robotic Technology (‘A.R.T.’). The company designs, produces and commercializes high quality medical devices for orthopedics.

18 May 2012

Henry Ford Hospital Researchers Conduct Study on Robot-Assisted Surgical Procedures

A new research study by Henry Ford Hospital urologists states that robot-assisted surgery has been more effective than another minimally invasive procedure, becoming the major surgical method to treat kidney cancer, where part of the diseased organ is spared.

17 May 2012

Health Robotics Extends its Global Network into the GCC

Health Robotics recently declared a new marketing and service channel for its innovative i.v.STATION ONCO, i.v.SOFT, and i.v.STATION products with PharmaTech located in the United Arab Emirates.

16 May 2012

Robotic-Triggered PCI to be Safe for Patients

CorPath Percutaneous Robotically-Enhance Coronary Intervention Study(PRECISE) study states that robotic system is capable of enabling interventional cardiologists to safely conduct percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).

14 May 2012

Robotics to Establish Global Automated Biobanking Market

The Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) along with the consumable sector will emerge to enable integration of various workflow processes including online sample request, tracking of samples, centralized web accessible data and customer billing.

14 May 2012

Wearable Robot Delivered to Michigan- Based DMC Rehabilitation Institute

DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan (RIM) received Ekso, a wearable robot. This institute is United States’ 8th rehabilitation hospital to receive this unique wearable, robotic exoskeleton. This offering enables individuals with lower extremity paralysis or other wheel-chair users.

14 May 2012