Archives for the 'Video' Category
[Quick Take] Interview with Jeff Rencher, President of Sales & Marketing at Opticon Medical
Opticon Medical develops products for short-term urinary management and chronic urinary incontinence. The company has five FDA cleared products, including the Option-vf and Option-vm catheters highlighted in this video.
Option catheters use the body’s own bladder to store urine rather than a collection bag. When the bladder needs to be drained, the patient or caregiver activates […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Gary Levine, CFO of Bostwick Laboratories
Bostwick Laboratories is a full-service laboratory specializing in uropathology. The company’s pathologists specialize in the diagnosis, treatment and subsequent management of prostate cancer, kidney disease, cancer of the bladder and other urologic conditions.
Bostwick offer complete histologic services, including tissue processing with routine and special stains. DNA ploidy analysis is offered on prostate biopsies with cancer. […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Larry Drappi, VP Sales & Marketing at MeridianEMR
meridianEMR offers a “blended model” EMR system designed for creating and storing patient medical records in an office and online simultaneously. Designed by a team of physicians and software engineers, meridianEMR uses Java and XML to create a highly modular medical EMR that provides:
Remote access to patient charts
Complete workflow management
Full HIPAA compliance
Prescription/medication integration
Lab information
Suggested CPT […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Phillip Goetz, President of Medical Digital Developers
Medical Digital Developers (MD Dev) offers the D-Scope System, a voice-activated, hands-free digital media management system that captures digital audio and video (including still images) during an endoscopic exam.
D-Scope prides itself on ease of use in clinical environs, due to its voice recognition technology. The video capture and instant replay allows doctors to perform examination […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Dallas Dryden, Director of Sales at PDLabs
PDLabs offers Transdermal Verapamil (TV) 15% Gel, a painless, non-invasive treatment for fibrotic tissue disorders such as Peyronie’s disease. TV 15% has been used to treat over 13,000 patients since 1998.
Peyronie’s disease is a connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis. The condition affects as many […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Kirt Kirtland, President & CEO of Starion Instruments
Starion Instruments‘ uses focused thermal energy and pressure to simultaneously seal and divide tissue. By applying direct heat instead of electrical, radio frequency or ultrasonic energy, Starion products can reduce unintended thermal injury, minimize instrument exchange, improve visibility by reducing smoke, splatter, and can be used close to vital and delicate structures.
Starion recently released the […]
[Quick Take] Interview with William Oravan, Medical Director at Maple Leaf HIFU Co.
Maple Leaf HIFU Co. offers Ablatherm High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for localized prostate cancer.
During the procedure, a probe is placed into the rectum after spinal or epidural anesthesia has been administered. This probe emits a beam of high intensity focused ultrasound. At the point where the ultrasound is focused the sudden and intense […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Dan Sade Hochstadter, CEO of Keren Medical
Keren Medical is developing anastomosis suturing technology for minimally invasive surgeries (an anastomosis is an operation to connect two body parts). The company’s flagship product is a patented surgical instrument that allows surgeons to more easily and accurately complete the difficult anastomosis between the bladder and urethra following radical prostatectomy. The result is a faster, […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Edward Leary, President & CEO of ContraVac
In this quick interview from the AUA Meeting, Charlottesville, VA-based ContraVac, discusses SpermCheck Vasectomy.
Using only a few drop of semen, the diagnostic can confirm post-vasectomy sterility from home. The vasectomy failure and recanalization rate is approximately 0.4% (1 in 238). SpermCheck Vasectomy was approved by the FDA in March 2008.
CotraVac is also developing SpermCheck Fertility, […]
[Video Profile] Interview with Bob Mills, President of Envisioneering Medical
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. The cancer stems from a malignant tumor that originates in the prostate gland. As the tumor grows it can spread to other areas of the body, including nearby lymph nodes, bones and organs. In the past 20 years, five-year survival rates for all […]
