Intelligent Ultrasound inks training agreement with Fujifilm SonoSite

Intelligent Ultrasound on Thursday entered into an agreement with Fujifilm SonoSite to deliver a training solution for the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) market.

The agreement includes the AIM traded company's BodyWorks Eve POCUS training solution, as well as the HeartWorks transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography simulator training platforms.

BodyWorks an ultra-realistic patient simulator designed for interactive scenario training, coming complete with 100 real patient scans and over 10,000 pathology variations across cardiac, lung, transabdominal and pelvic ultrasound.

This technology will be used to accelerate training for all Fujifilm SonoSite's POCUS systems.

Thomas Brown, vice president of North America sales at IU, said: "I look forward to working closely with Fujifilm SonoSite to implement the vision of this agreement. Being a former Cardiac Sonographer and lab instructor, I know first-hand what it is like to learn and teach ultrasound - facilitating this knowledge within a clinical setting is imperative to improve patient outcomes."

Intelligent Ultrasound shares were down 9.00% at 9.10p at 1549 BST.