Ultrasound system wins

Sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the IDEA awards are judged by a jury of 18 leading individuals in the design world, who focus on design innovation, benefit to the user, benefit to the client/business, ecological responsibility, aesthetics and appeal.

This is SonoSite’s third IDEA award: in 2000, the SonoSite 180, the ultrasound industry’ s first hand-carried system weighing under ten pounds, won an IDEA award, as did the iLook ultrasound system in 2003.

The MicroMaxx ultrasound system is a crossover between hand-carried and cart-based systems, weighing less than eight pounds but delivering high resolution image quality at a fraction of the cost of larger, heavier cart-based systems.