Siemens Healthcare celebrated the grand opening of a new ultrasound factory in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. on Monday, which will specialize in the manufacture of the company's new wireless ultrasound system.

"Siemens is proud to bring high-end, specialized manufacturing to the Philadelphia area through the production of the ACUSON Freestyle ultrasound system," said Jeffrey Bundy, CEO of Siemens Ultrasound, in an official statement.

Siemens launched the ACUSON Freestyle at RSNA 2012 in Chicago. The company said it is the first wireless ultrasound system ever developed. It features a wireless transducer that is meant to make it easier for providers to perform scans in interventional settings and other OR scenarios where sterilization is key.

Besides interventional radiology, the system is being marketed for critical care, anesthesiology and emergency care.

The Plymouth Meeting, Pa. site, which is in a suburb right outside of Philadelphia, is the second ultrasound factory in the U.S. for the German company. Siemens' Buffalo Grove, Ill., facility houses an assembly line for Siemens' ACUSON S Family of ultrasound systems.

Bundy told DOTmed News at RSNA 2012 in November that the new wireless ultrasound system is currently installed at 15 clinical sites, and that the company expects the product to be commercially available mid-2013.

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