[AdvaMed 2008] Video Roundup

Our in-house dynamo, Claudia Pinzon and the rest of the the talented team at OneMedTV, have been busy compiling a wealth of valuable video content captured at AdvaMed2008. Below, some of that footage. To watch the videos, click the thumbnail or visit OneMedPlace.tv. Veralight: David VanAvermaete from...

Definiens Collaboration to Add Technological Muscle to Clarient’s Offerings in Personalized Medicine

In a move that could accelerate the growth of the Clarient’s biomarker business, the company announced Friday that, with Definiens, it will develop and commercialize tools to help evaluate quantitative biomarkers that predict cancer treatment response. Definiens’ platform uses image analysis...

[Video Profile] Interview with Roger Kolanski, CEO of Critical Care Innovations

Critical Care Innovations (CCI), a biotechnology-driven device company, is developing minimally-invasive, site-specific and image-guided cancer management systems. By using ultrasound guidance and visualization technologies, along with its proprietary cryothermal and microencapsulation processes, the...

GE Healthcare to Surreptitiously Monitor the Elderly through QuietCare Collaboration

GE Healthcare has entered into a distribution and technology collaboration with Living Independently Group (LIG). QuietCare, LIG’s principal product, is a “behavioral remote patient monitoring system” that uses wireless sensors to track the patterns of seniors’ daily activities. Unlike ReadyResponse...

I-Flow Expands Beyond Drug Delivery

I-Flow Corporation, developer of ambulatory drug delivery systems for pain management and infusion therapy, received FDA 510(k) clearance for its oxygen enriched wound dressing. The company set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, AcryMed, to commercialize the product. With the clearance, I-Flow can commence...

[Video Profile] Interview with Mitchell Seyedin, President & CEO of ISTO Technologies

Within the sports medicine and spinal markets, repair of cartilage injuries in the knee and spinal disc represents one of the greatest unmet medical needs. Each year in the U.S., orthopedic surgeons detect approximately 500,000 cartilage lesions in knee joints alone. Cartilage protects joints, including...

[Video Profile] Ivivi Technologies: Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy

Ivivi Technologies offers pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) technologies, which, by generating an electrical current in injured soft tissue, stimulates biochemical and physiological healing processes to help repair the injured tissue and reduce related pain and inflammation. Pulsed electromagnetic fields...

Minrad, RxElite Alter Distribution Arrangement

Despite having been awarded an anesthetic gas contract by Premier, Inc. in March, RxElite will no longer be the exclusive distributor of certain Minrad human anesthetic products in the U.S. Though the split was harmonious (RxElite will continue to distribute Sevoflurane and Isoflurane), I suspect Minrad was...