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Archive for May 10th, 2006

Remote Monitoring and Disease Management Gets Boost from Dyson

Health care guru and blogger Matthew Holt reports on Esther Dyson's comments at the CDHCC conference.

I asked her what VCs should be investing in. She suggested
management of the chronically ill, such as compliance reminders, and
products for women and family aimed at pregnant women and those with
newborns.
Given that she’s spending a lot of time holding […]


Baxter Struggles with Recall of Colleague Pump

The Chicago Trib runs a story today (reg req) about comments made by Baxter Chair and CEO Robert Parkinson to shareholders about efforts to resolve problems with their Colleague infusion pump.
Addressing shareholders at the
company's annual meeting held at the Palmer House Hilton downtown,
Parkinson said Baxter awaits Food and Drug Administration approval of
the Deerfield-based medical […]


Hillenbrand Reports Financials

Hillenbrand reports profits up, revenues down (slightly) for the second quarter. Earnings came in at $54.5 million, compared to $54 million for the same period last year.

The company also said its restructuring efforts, which the company
announced in September, are being executed as planned in the United
States and Europe.
Hillenbrand said it's on target to achieve its […]


Summit Data Communications to Support Cisco CCX

Chris Bolinger of Summit Data was kind enough to email me with some additional information on their embedded Wi-Fi radios (original post here).
Summit plans to have its radios certified for CCX Version 3 in early June. Summit then will have the only compact flash WLAN radio certified for CCX at any version. […]


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