Santa Cruz, California-based BC Tech has come up with what is being described as one of the smallest medical cameras in the world.
BC Tech, a medical product development and manufacturing company, has launched a miniature single use video camera that can be integrated into medical devices to improve safety and help reduce healthcare costs. The camera, Video Scout, is just three millimeters in diameter.
Medical companies can integrate the Video Scout into biopsy tools, ablation wands, catheters, tissue cutters and scopes. The company says its offering’s low per-unit cost facilitates development of new kinds of medical devices.
The company highlighted that many routine procedures and surgeries require the doctor to see inside the human body with a special instrument called an endoscope, which is considered to be an expensive option. BC Tech says it can help medical equipment companies in coming up with new products that move endoscopic procedures out of the surgical suite. This move is critical especially considering the fact that healthcare legislation is likely to reduce reimbursements for many procedures. As a result, medical device companies are scrambling to introduce low cost, single-use devices.
The company also mentioned that Video Scout enables creation of low cost diagnostic tools that developing countries can actually afford.
