Surgery Tool Maker Sues Rival Over Drill Guide Patent

Clearwater-based Orthopedic Development Corporation (ODC), the maker of the TruFUSE® spinal surgery system, has accused a rival of infringing both the patent and trade dress for a drill guide in one of the first patent design suits to be filed since the Federal Circuit handed down its standard-altering Egyptian Goddess ruling.
ODC lodged the suit, as [...]

Digirad Corporation Announces Appointment of Todd Clyde as Chief Executive Officer

Digirad Corporation today announced the appointment of Todd P. Clyde as president and chief executive officer. He replaces Mark Casner, 53, who resigned as president, chief executive officer and director of the company to pursue new business opportunities effective today. Clyde has been chief financial officer since November 2002 and will continue in that position [...]

HOV Services Announces Details of Physicians Group Medical Records Conversion Services

HOV Services (HOVS), one of the largest providers of business process and knowledge process outsourcing solutions, today announced the details of its medical records capture and conversion services that are expressly designed for physicians groups. Among its other practice areas, HOVS offers a suite of integrated Business Process Outsourcing solutions to manage the entire revenue [...]

HealthMarkets’ Subsidiary Introduces New Suite of Dental Insurance Products for Individuals of All Ages

HealthMarkets, Inc. (http://www.healthmarkets.com) announced today that its subsidiary, The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company, has introduced a new suite of dental insurance products for individuals of all ages in 26 states.
HealthMarkets, through its insurance subsidiaries, is a provider of health insurance products for the self-employed, individuals and families and small businesses.
“Good dental health is [...]

High Growth Forecasted for the US Drug Delivery Devices Industry Report

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Medical d industry is available in its catalogue.
Summary
- This report is an essential source for in-depth information and data relating to Country “Sector” market. It also offers detailed and comprehensive coverage of market revenue, volume, distribution and company share information; and latest news, financial [...]

First Paramedic Course To Use Second Life

You receive an emergency call. A female has collapsed in the street. You arrive outside the nightclub to find a young female slumped against a wall. There is no other bystander in the area and the caller has left the scene. As you approach the patient you notice she is singing in a slurred fashion. [...]

Baxa Ltd announced to launch Pre-Filled Saline Flush Syringes

Baxa Ltd announces its launch of a new line of pre-filled saline IV syringes in the UK. Baxa Ltd, an organisation committed to increasing patient safety through specialty devices for the preparation and administration of liquid medication, is adding a range of pre-filled saline intravenous flush syringes for catheter care in UK health systems. Baxa [...]

Siemens Molecular CT Takes the Lead in the Evolution of Diagnostic Imaging

Siemens is pleased to offer a powerful new platform in integrated imaging today,” said Michael Reitermann, chief executive officer, Molecular Imaging, Siemens Healthcare. “For institutions looking for cutting-edge technology, the greatest level of patient care and maximum return on investment, Biograph mCT offers the complete solution: PET with unlimited CT capabilities, CT with ‘molecular resolution,’ [...]

Innovative Devices and Futuristic Therapies

Clinical investigators at today’s “Innovative Devices and Futuristic Therapies” session during the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, presented 12-month follow-up data from the ATLANTA Trial. The results include zero percent thrombosis in patients discontinuing dual anti-platelet therapy after only 30 days.
The ATLANTA Trial is a first-in-man [...]

AllscriptsMisys to Drive Healthcare Transformation

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc. (AllscriptsMisys) today begins its first day as a combined company with an ambitious plan to connect healthcare in order to improve quality, reduce errors and lower costs for the American healthcare system. Formed by the merger of a subsidiary of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and Misys Healthcare Systems, LLC, the newly [...]