Google announced the formation of a Health Advisory Council that includes an eclectic group of health care insiders. The result has been speculation on Google's plans ranging from an application for patients to store their medical information online to the acquisition of an EMR vendor.
The acquisition of an EMR vendor will render Google just another […]
With little fanfare, GE Healthcare has launched a suite of blogs as part of a new campaign called PeerVision. Initially targeting the diagnostic imaging market, PeerVision could easily be expanded to include other health care market segments. Included in the site are a few blogs, a discussion forum, and the usual marketing materials.
Most medical […]
The Tyco International spin off of their medical division was completed a couple weeks ago. The new company, Covidien has about $10 billion in sales. With a stable of mature health care technology, Covidien is looking to acquisitions to fuel growth.
It is now investing aggressively in research and development in its
core devices business and would […]
Vocera has named Robert J. Zollars as their new Chairman and CEO. Like many health care executives, Zollars got his start at American Home Products, before moving to Baxter. From the press release:
Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Wound Care Solutions,
the leading operator of outsourced chronic wound care centers serving
275 hospital customers […]
MEMS vendor Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISSYS) announced, “that the U.S Patent Office has granted a patent entitled “WirelessMEMS Capacitive Sensor for Physiologic Parameter Measurement” (US Patent No. 6,926,670) which covers the design, manufacturing, and anchoring of miniature, wireless, batteryless, implantable sensors.” (press release - pdf) The summary from the patent:
The invention comprises a […]
A while back, Masimo acquired a Canadian firm that developed a novel bioacoustic respiratory sensor. The fruits of that acquisition are soon to be on the market (press release). In recent studies, “Masimo Acoustic Respiratory Monitoring technology (ARM) is “at
least as accurate as capnometry” and “significantly more reliable” for
monitoring respiration in spontaneously breathing patients.”
Respiration is […]
Here's another clip from AAMI, this one from the exhibition floor. The Draeger TeleSmart was shown at last year's AAMI. Since then, they've received their 510(k) and released the product; manufacturing is gearing up now, and the product should be shipping later this summer or fall. Jeff gave a quick product presentation/demo that would make […]
Jeff Robbins, CEO of LiveData, talks about his company's participation in the MD PnP program and hopes for a medical device interoperability standard. I caught up with Jeff at AAMI, after his presentation in the ACCE Clinical Engineering Symposium, Saturday morning.
Jeff will also be participating in the joint workshop organized by the MD PnP […]
Lantronix has scored their biggest medical device deal to date, “a custom, battery-operated version of its commercially-available WiBox® 802.11 b/g wireless device server for the manufacturer’s medical point-of-care application.” (press release)
Terms of the agreement include a non-recurring payment and minimum
quantity purchase commitment valued at approximately $360,000 over the
initial 12 months of production and an additional […]
Respironics was showing Respi-Link, remote monitoring capabilities through an RS232 serial port. The biomed must take the device down to their shop and connect it to a computer that runs a special Respironics client. Through this connection, users can download firmware updates and do run some diagnostics. Respironics is using Axeda for this feature, and […]
