Vscan Air™ from GE HealthCare aims to advance care for everyone, everywhere by providing an ultra-portable, wireless ultrasound solution that fits in your pocket. The Vscan Air™ handheld ultrasound solution seamlessly pairs with your iPhone device, allowing you to perform whole-body scans anywhere - in the clinic, at a patient's bedside, in an ambulance or even at home.
Vscan Air app users are given quick access to scanning capabilities, with user-friendly controls and functionality. The app features modes for both new and experienced users in mind including B-mode, Color Doppler, Pulsed Wave Doppler* and M-mode*. To help support your workflow the app provides intuitive measurement and annotation* tools right on your display device. In addition, the OB measurements* include the capabilities for fetal size measurements, amniotic fluid checks, angle of progression measurements, estimated fetal weight and more.
Enjoy the flexibility of a wireless experience with wireless device connectivity and data sharing to your DICOM® server or shared network folders. Easily share anonymous exam images or loops to other apps, including your social feed, with just a few taps.
The app seamlessly connects with the 2-in-1 power of the Vscan Air wireless dual-probe (sold separately) that delivers both shallow and deep scanning on a single handheld device.
Vscan Air CL wireless dual-probe offers a curved array transducer ideal for abdominal, obstetrics and more with excellent image quality. With a flip of the probe, the linear array transducer provides shallow scanning for vascular, nerve, lung, and musculoskeletal scanning. Vscan Air SL is the newest member to the Vscan Family. It offers the same value of a dual probe with a sector array on one side and a linear array on the opposite side of the probe so you won’t miss a beat when moving from a cardiac to vascular assessments.
The Vscan Air dual-probe handheld ultrasound offers excellent image quality with its SignalMAXTM technology. Despite its small and ergonomic design, the probe does not compromise on image quality, using the same piezoelectric transducer technology as other GE HealthCare ultrasound solutions.
Get even more from your Vscan Air with Vscan Air Digital Tools to improve your workflow with secure collaboration, image, and device management solutions. (Sold separately and not available in every country. Please check with your local sales representative.)
Vscan Air can help healthcare providers get to the answers needed right away and get patients to the right next steps faster. Ultra-portable and ease of use, take Vscan Air everywhere your patients need you for accelerated diagnoses and treatment decisions.
For healthcare professionals only. Requires a compatible medical device.
The availability of the Vscan Air Wireless Ultrasound app on the App Store does not infer that the physical Vscan ultrasound probes have been cleared in specific jurisdictions. GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. has the sole responsibility and liability for in-country clearances.
*Not available in all countries.
Over all I am very happy with the device and app. The Vscan clarity is very good considering the price, especially with the linear probe for MSK use. The app is very functional but is lacking some key features such as being able to annotate images. You can neither label images nor write notes within an exam. This is greatly problematic when reviewing past exams or noting pathology found. I hope the GE team will add this soon as this function is available with competing App based handheld ultrasound machines. I find this unacceptable from a company with such a great name and reputation and hope this is rectified. The only other problem I have experienced is the signal cuts out intermittently for no rhyme or reason. It does this at least 1 or 2 times during every exam but is very transient. I can see the image freeze briefly then 2 seconds later can see the “low signal” graphic in the top left corner appear and then return to the typical full bars graphic. One time I was doing an ultrasound guided knee injection and the signal was dropping so frequently that it was difficult to do the procedure.
Review Update
Azriel18
GE HealthCare has listened and had diligently worked on adding the features that were missing. Looks like a great update to the app. I hope to be able to go up to 5 stars once I had a bit more time to try the new version.
Developer Response
Hi! It’s always wonderful to hear when we’ve been successful in providing our customers with great product experiences. Thank you for trusting us to assist you in your work. We appreciate you and are so glad your part of the Vscan Family
Great app and probe, team continually improving
eugenejkim
Over 300 scans and procedures in, it’s a great probe. It has the views better than some competitors and the pocket portability that makes it a true handheld. Development team continues to add great features like M mode, Pulsed Wave Doppler, cardiac AI guidance, annotations, etc. I don’t find signal lag to be problematic on the very rare occurrence it happens.To Development Team, would love the ability to trace the outline of Doppler wave forms for VTI measurements. Especially handy with apple tablets given it has the Apple Pencil so the tracings themselves could be quite precise. Not sure why we can’t trace Doppler waveforms since it wouldn’t be probe hardware limited, just software.EDIT: edited rating to 3 stars, still missing ability to do VTI tracings on the app, mindray released their cardiac focused handheld which can do tissue doppler which is key in terms of diastolics. Uncertain why GE is lagging behind on this compared to competitors. Note to GE VScan Department: The competition is firing up GE! Let’s get VTI tracing and Tissue Doppler available to the handhelds! AI is great but to anyone mildly more comfortable with POCUS, VTI and TDI is 100% more useful. You guys have a great probe, awesome looking app, but you’re gonna lose marketshare with competitors willing to offer VTI tracing and Tissue Doppler on their handhelds! I tried to convince my department to get the GE VScans but they went with Mindray and noted the above. Hard to argue. Also Mindray has wireless charging built into their probe case, why can’t GE do the same? That and the above have been things users of VScan have been noting as missing for a while. If the software limitations are addressed, would be GLAD to give 5 stars, but with competition offering more, can’t seem to give 5 stars at the moment.
Developer Response
Hi eugenejkim. It’s always wonderful to hear when we’ve been successful in providing our customers with great product experiences. Thank you for trusting us to assist you in your work. We appreciate you and are so glad your part of the Vscan Family.
You will get locked out
kylitokrantcisimo
Miss type your password three times, you’re locked out. Let’s just think for a second about what that means for your emergency bedside ultrasound. It’s not gunna happen. Don’t worry there is a guest mode. Just kidding if you press guest mode during your emergency bedside ultrasound, it tells you to log in to the registered account that you are locked out of. Let’s say you want to reach out. No one is responsible for the software that you will be able to contact. This software will absolutely kill people. Get the butterfly.
Developer Response
Hello,Please contact us at our support email address vscansupport@gehealthcare.com, so we can work with you directly. Thank you.
Improves:
- Patient worklist management workflows
- Cardiac Guidance image review functionality
- Probe compatibility safeguards
Features may not be available in all countries or in all software versions
Version 3.2.1.20363
The developer, GE Healthcare, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
Identifiers
Usage Data
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Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
GE Healthcare indicated this app is a regulated medical device and complies with United States law.
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FDA Owner/Operator Number
9912004
Address
500 West Monroe Street Chicago Illinois 60661 United States
Phone Number
+47 91 16 92 36
Email
vscanair.product@gehealthcare.com
Use Statement
Vscan Air is a battery-operated software-based general-purpose ultrasound imaging system for use by qualified and trained healthcare professionals or practitioners that are legally authorized or licensed by law in the country, state or other local municipality in which he or she practices. The users may or may not be working under supervision or authority of a physician. Users may also include medical students working under the supervision or authority of a physician during their education/training. The device is enabling visualization and measurement of anatomical structures and fluid including blood flow.
Vscan Air’s pocket-sized portability and simplified user interface enables integration into training sessions and examinations in professional healthcare facilities (ex. Hospital, clinic, medical office), home environment, road/air ambulance and other environments as described in the user manual. The information can be used for basic/focused assessments and adjunctively with other medical data for clinical diagnosis purposes during routine, periodic follow-up, and triage.
Vscan Air supports black/white (B-mode), color flow (Color Doppler), Pulsed Wave Doppler mode, M-mode, combined (B + Color Doppler) and harmonic imaging modes with curved, linear and sector array transducers.
With the curved array transducer of the dual headed probe solution, the specific clinical applications and exam types include: abdominal, fetal/obstetrics, gynecological, urology, thoracic/lung, cardiac (adult and pediatric, 40 kg and above), vascular/peripheral vascular, musculoskeletal (conventional), pediatrics, interventional guidance (includes free hand needle/catheter placement, fluid drainage, nerve block and biopsy).
With the linear array transducer of the dual headed probe solution, the specific clinical applications and exam types include: vascular/peripheral vascular, musculoskeletal (conventional and superficial), small organs, thoracic/lung, ophthalmic, pediatrics, neonatal cephalic, interventional guidance (includes free hand needle/catheter placement, fluid drainage, nerve block, vascular access and biopsy).
With the sector array transducer of the dual headed probe solution, the specific clinical applications and exam types include: cardiac (adult and pediatric, 40 kg and above), abdominal, fetal/obstetrics, gynecological, urology, thoracic/lung, pediatrics, adult cephalic, interventional guidance (includes free hand needle/catheter placement, fluid drainage, nerve block and biopsy).
See eIFU (Instructions for Use).
Safety Information
Warnings, [pre]cautions and notes for the user are documented in the instructions for use.
See eIFU (Instructions for Use).
Any serious incident related to the use of this GE HealthCare device must be reported to both the manufacturer and the health authority or competent authority in the country where the device is installed (To report a problem or adverse event to the FDA, visit www.fda.gov/safety/report-problem-fda).
To report to GE HealthCare:
Contact your local service representative or email In-box.complaints@gehealthcare.com. When submitting a report, include the following information:
• The catalogue number or the model designation of the device as stated on its identification plate affixed on the device. • System ID, serial number, or lot number of the device. • Date of the incident • Description of the incident, including any impact or injury to a patient or user. • Your contact information (facility name, address, contact person, job title, and telephone number).
