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Archive for March 23rd, 2006

Remote Monitoring Start Up Raises $10 Million in Second Round

This is another one of those “Stanford grad finishes school, starts company, raises millions” stories. The entrepreneur in question is 22 years old Elizabeth Holmes, whose company Theranos is developing a device for adverse drug monitoring. This is the second round she's raised, and will go to ramp up manufacturing.
The
company’s device, called Theranos 1.0, works […]


Ambulance to Hospital Connectivity Speeds Cardiac Care

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have been using wireless connectivity to transmit ECGs from ambulances to hospital located cardiologists in an effort to bypass the emergency department and take patients straight to the cath lab. The defibrillator/patient monitor in the ambulance is connected to a gateway device (usually a PDA) that transmits the patient's […]


Zoll Acquires Lifecor

It seems that in March 2004, Zoll entered into a license agreement with Lifecor,
where they acquired exclusive distribution rights
to Lifecor's technology for the hospital market, and acquired an option to
purchase the remainder of Lifecor's assets. Well, they excercised that option today. You can read an earlier post about Lifecore's product here (press release).
At the closing […]


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