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Indian device makers want regulation and get it: Strange story came across the Internet this morning. It was from a site called Thaindian News saying India's medical device industry was seeking, and getting, new regulations from the government. This seemed positively unAmerican which by definition it was so I checked it out with the story's...; Tags: India, Medical Device, Regulation, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Texcel LLC Uses Biscom Delivery Server (BDS) to Eliminate Email Attachment File Size Issues, Take the Burden Off Their Mail Server, and Send Large 3D Modeling and Design Files to Their Clients Quickly, Easily, and Securely: Texcel provides their world-wide customer base with medical device products and process development. Texcel has a department of twenty-five engineers who use SolidWorks, a 3D modeling and design software application, to create medical device drawings. The engineers work collaboratively with each other, as well as with their clients. Because specifications...; Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, Medical Device, Server, E-mail, E-mail Server, Biscom, Texcel, Healthcare; Case studies 2008-03-31
New business models for medical device makers: In an attempt to keep sales high for its high-end medical diagnostic gear Philips is introducing some new business models. These business models are being tried first in Europe but if they work they might be imported. A managed service model which includes a...; Tags: Medical Device, Business Model, Relief, Potato, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-19
medical devices are no longer a safe haven: For several months now we've been told by stock pickers that medical stocks are safe havens, that they're recession-resistant. Maybe they're not. (I first ran this picture last year. It was from a photo contest sponsored by Worth Magazine.) Profits at Wright Medical sank...; Tags: Stock, Medical Device, Healthcare, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Medtronic plans image campaign: Have medical devices become like the oil industry or the payday lenders? Do they need an image campaign to stay afloat against the incoming political fire? One might think so from reading this from Medtronic, the Minneapolis-based company best known for its pacemakers. ...; Tags: Medtronic Inc., Idea, Medical Device, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-08

Product Lifecycle Management in the medical device Industry: In the medical device industry, efficiently meeting U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA requirements is a key to business success. Product Lifecycle Management PLM technology ensures FDA compliance integrity by providing comprehensive content to support management decisions across the organization and individual functional groups. By uniting product information with processes,...; Tags: FDA, Product Lifecycle, Medical Device, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Lifecycle Management Technology, Product Marketing, Federal Government, Marketing, Government; White papers 2008-01-01
Device market finds value in privacy: Medical devices are complex. Their regulatory environment is complex. You want to explain that complexity to mom-and-pop investors? Unless your goal in life is to schmooze Maria Bartiromo or Neal Cavuto, the answer is probably no. Fortunately there's an alternative. Venture capitalists are now...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Medical Device, Privacy, VentureOne, Venture Capital, Investment, Healthcare, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-25
Establishing Regulatory Compliance in the medical device Industry: The public health community and its providers are continually improving their ability to deliver new procedures, treatments, diagnostic methods and preventive practices. Breakthrough advances by medical device companies have facilitated both earlier disease detection and better long term healthcare. However, productivity within the medical device industry has been inhibited by...; Tags: Medical Device, Regulatory Compliance, Healthcare; White papers 2007-10-01
medical device Manufacturer Makes Hand-Carried Ultrasound a Reality: SonoSite, Inc. is leading in the race to make medical imaging devices smaller and more portable. Its lightweight, hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound products enable clinicians to deliver safer, better, faster care, right at the patient bedside. For its latest product, SonoSite M-Turbo system, the company wanted to maintain rapid boot-up time...; Tags: Medical Imaging, SonoSite Inc., Medical Device, Texas Instruments Inc., Microsoft Corp., Clinician, Microsoft Windows, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies 2007-10-01
Networking ignored by medical automation: Networking ignored by medical automationQui Bono?You nail the issue when you point out that the brass ring for vendors is total customer lock-in. After all, look at the really big technology businesses: the market cap and profits are inversely proportional to the amount of competition that they allow.It's all...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, network, medical device; Discussion threads 2007-09-24
Networking ignored by medical automation: When you buy a printer you expect to find a driver for it, one you can easily install, which will allow ready communication between it and your PC. You expect it to deal with files created by your PC, and you expect your PC to deal with its files, too. ...; Tags: Network, PC, Problem, Medical Device, Standards, Automation, PC Industry, Quality, Healthcare, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-09-24
Monument to cost rises over Copacabana: The old Copacabana nightclub in New York, across from the Javits Convention Center, will come down in favor of a 1 million square foot, 45-50 story tall medical device market.The World Product Centre is the brainchild of Israel Green, and will be built by Extell Development, best known for residential towers....; Tags: Medical Office Equipment, Medical Equipment, Hospital Equipment, Home Health Care Equipment, General, Gadgets; Blog posts 2007-08-02
The Challenge of Securing Hard to Patch Servers in Health Care Environments: As the healthcare industry continues to benefit from increasing interconnectivity among disparate systems, such as patient record systems and medical devices, new risks will continue to emerge. Most significant among those risks are the proliferation of networked medical devices and the inability of administrators to quickly mitigate vulnerabilities. Patient privacy...; Tags: Blue Lane Technologies, Patient, Medical Device, Health Care, Server, Patient Privacy, PatchPoint, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2006-12-13
Complaints Management: More Than Just Handling Complaints - It's Managing Customer Relationships: Complaints management is a complex problem in a unique industry, and the issue promises to remain a hot button in the future. As regulatory and market pressures continue to mount upon medical device manufacturers, industry leaders will need to develop effective solutions or face the high costs inherent in failed...; Tags: Deloitte Consulting, Industry, Medical Device, Complex Problem, Strategy, Healthcare, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-11-15
Baxter Healthcare Data Management Grows Stronger With IBM and REAL Solutions: Baxter International Inc. (Baxter, www.baxter.com) is a global healthcare company, manufacturing medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products. At Baxter, multiple production systems, each with isolated, local data storage requirements, were proving hard to manage and costly to maintain. Working with IBM Business Partner REAL Solutions (REAL, www.realsolutionsuk.com), Baxter selected a...; Tags: Storage management, HEALTHCARE, Servers, Baxter International Inc., IBM Corp., storage, storage server, server platform, medical device, data storage, SAN, biotechnology, health care, server; Case studies 2006-05-04
Photo: Making virtual rounds: Intel shows off prototypes of medical devices that could one day let doctors use voice recognition to access patients' vitals.; Tags: patient, Intel Corp., medical device, photograph, voice recognition; Image galleries 2005-09-16
Photo: Making virtual rounds: Intel shows off prototypes of medical devices that could one day let doctors use voice recognition to access patients' vitals.; Tags: patient, Intel Corp., medical device, photograph, voice recognition; Image galleries 2005-09-16
Leading medical device Company Improves Communication and Productivity With Portal Solution: St. Jude Medical is a U.S. $2.3 billion global cardiovascular device company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. The company's sales force experienced information overload on its intranet, and its operating departments needed to streamline collaboration and content management. With help from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Quilogy, an enterprise portal solution...; Tags: St. Jude Medical Inc., Enterprise Portal, Medical Device, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Groupware, Team Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Hardware; Case studies
Synovis Life Technologies Eliminates Spam With Barracuda Networks: Synovis Life Technologies, Inc., is a diversified medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets specialty medical products for use in thoracic, cardiac, neuro, vascular and ophthalmolic surgery. With more than 400 employees depending on email for vital business communication the amount of spam bombarding the company inboxes was crippling....; Tags: Barracuda Networks, Medical Device, Healthcare; Case studies

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