CAN has been around for some time, not as long as the Medical Information Buss (MIB) now known as IEEE 1073. CAN was developed to provide communications and control between safety-critical devices in a variety of industries. From the CAN website's page on medical devices:
As far back
as the early 1990s, the flexibility, robustness, reliability and
reasonable […]
A couple weeks ago I was asked about CVIS market shares and the size of the market. Agfa Heartlab was kind enough to run a print ad in December issue of Cath Lab Digest ranking the top 6 vendors in the CVIS market (from a Frost report):
Company
Market Share (%)
GE Healthcare
27.1
Philips Medical Systems
23.9
Agfa Heartlab
20.3
Witt Biomedical
8.3
Siemens Medical […]
The latest Grand Rounds is up over at Medpundit. Be sure to check it out.
