At the beginning of 2017, Samsung Electronics entered the animal health care industry with the launch of its PT10V device, a point-of-care (POC) blood analyzer for pets. Unveiled at the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) Conference in Orlando, Florida, the PT10V was selected by the NAVC as one of the conference’s “must see” products.

Samsung’s Health & Medical Equipment Business department employees recognized that this device represented more than just high-technology. Rather, it presented an opportunity to make a difference. In April of this year, about twenty likeminded members of the Health & Medical Equipment Business team banded together and established a community service group they named the “Mung Nyangs” – a play-on-words of the onomatopoeic Korean words for ‘bark’ and ‘meow’, and established a group slogan of “Happier together.” The slogan refers to the potential happiness of stray animals who receive care under the volunteer program.

The kindhearted group utilized Samsung Electronics’ “Voluntainment Talent Sharing’ program – a support mechanism for employees who establish community service initiatives – to provide four PT10Vs to animal shelters across Korea. At more than several thousands of dollars per unit, the animal shelters were delighted to receive the advanced medical equipment. Additionally, the team also supplied the shelters with free blood test cartridges, ensuring that the animals had access to the care they needed.

Samsung’s PT10V features a compact design that delivers impressive results by testing for up to 13 different blood ailments at a time, including liver, lung and digestive system diseases. Moreover, the device provides results inside of 10 minutes, which are easily shared with other devices through an application available on smartphones and tablet PCs.

Based on the success of the PT10V blood analyzer and the enthusiastic response to the “Mung Nyangs” efforts in Korea, Samsung is seeking to expand the program internationally. The company plans to continue cultivating its veterinary-related service groups by leveraging its medical equipment technologies, and to provide much needed support to animals and the business who care for them, all around the world.

Samsung’s WS80A with Crystal Vue technology.

Samsung Medison, a global medical equipment company and an affiliate of Samsung Electronics, announced that its latest imaging technology ‘Crystal Vue’ has been featured on the front cover of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (UOG), a renowned academic journal in the women’s healthcare industry and the official journal published by the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG).

The March edition of the UOG featured a clinical case study by Dr. Christoph Lees, professor at the Department of Surgery & Cancer within the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College in London. Using Samsung’s premium diagnostic ultrasound system WS80A, professor Lees introduced two cases of prenatal imaging through Crystal Vue, of which the rib & vertebral images were selected as the Picture of the Month by UOG.

“Our experience with Crystal Vue over the past few months, specifically imaging of the bone and soft tissue interface, leads us to believe that it may offer new opportunities for prenatal imaging, particularly for the skeletal system, but also in facial and brain imaging,” Professor Lees stated in his study. “We were able to obtain highly detailed images that give particular information on the contour of the ribs and allow inference on mineralization.”

Crystal Vue is an advanced 3D volume rendering technology that enables users to assess detailed information of internal and external structures of the fetus or uterus and helps easily differentiate between the soft tissue and bone. With the additional morphological information, users may deepen their understanding of the patients and fetus.

Crystal Vue was first introduced at the 25th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, held in Canada in October 2015, as the latest imaging function of the WS80A. The WS80A with Crystal Vue is currently available globally.

“We are thrilled that Samsung’s latest technology was recognized in a leading academic journal as a new diagnostic imaging that can provide more clinical values in women’s health,” said Dongsoo Jun, President of Health & Medical Equipment Business at Samsung Electronics and CEO of Samsung Medison. “With Samsung’s leading display and software technology, we will continue to develop new features that can increase diagnosis confidence and contribute to women and fetal health.”

The cover of the March issue of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

To access the case study featured in the UOG, please visit,

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/uog.15800/full.

For detailed information on the Crystal Vue and WS80A, please visit,

http://www.samsungmedison.com/micro/WS80A_with_Elite/main.jsp.

To learn more about Samsung’s global medical equipment business, please visit,

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/healthcare/.