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FARMINGTON, Conn., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc. is pleased to announce two significant new reports tracking the growth in the patient monitoring systems market: Electronic Blood Pressure Monitors: Devices, Players, Markets and ForecastsThe convergence of new measurement technologies, patient demographics and managed care cost initiatives is driving patient monitoring away from caregiver facilities and into patients' homes. With approximately 1 billion...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ZONARE, the pioneer and developer of next generation ultrasound technology, announced the appointment of Stephen Edwards as vice president of U.S. sales for the company. Edwards brings more than 25 years of successful medical sales and executive experience to ZONARE. He will join the company's senior management team of industry veterans and is responsible for providing U.S. clinicians with ZONARE's award winning Zone...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare technology companies - ranging from large such as GE to startups like Independa - will need to find partners and cater to the affluent Baby Boomer generation and their caregivers if they are to take the lead in wireless health, an industry that promises to help reduce much of the estimated $2.5 trillion of wasted resources in the global healthcare system. This was among the predictions of a national war gaming contest held...
DALLAS, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Patient Monitoring Systems Market (2011 - 2016) - Global Trends, End-user & Value-Volume Analysis" analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in regions such as North America, Europe, APAC, and Rest of the world. Browse market data tables and in-depth TOC on "Patient Monitoring Systems Market (2011 - 2016) - Global Trends, End-user & Value-Volume Analysis"....
Tokyo, Apr 3, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Eisai Co., Ltd. and its diagnostics subsidiary EIDIA Co., Ltd. announced today that EIDIA entered into two separate agreements with medical equipment manufacturers Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation and GE Healthcare Japan Corporation on April 2 for Japan sales of PROTOCO2L, a carbon dioxide insufflation system for CT (computed tomographic) colonography, and carbon dioxide insufflation tube PROTOCO2L Catheter Set...
PORTLAND, Ore., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Donald McNees has joined Cambia Health Solutions as Vice President and General Manager of Provider Businesses within the company's Direct Health Solutions (DHS) division. In this role, Mr. McNees will focus on building innovative, collaborative businesses that will enable, enhance and sustain the success of healthcare service providers, nationally, as they work to respond to the dynamic forces reshaping the industry and the delivery of...
MADISON, N.J., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, has unveiled its redesigned corporate website at www.QuestDiagnostics.com. The site provides several new features, technologies and resources to help healthcare professionals and patients interact with the company online and access a broad span of information on diagnostic testing and health issues. The site features a new Test...
SARASOTA, Fla. and BALTIMORE, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Popper and Co., an M&A advisory and specialty consulting firm whose mission is to help clients across the life sciences spectrum address complex business challenges, announced today that it has extended its reach into digital health and expanded its geographic scope by appointing Paul Sonnier as Head of Digital Health Strategy. Mr. Sonnier, who is based in San Diego - a world-renowned center for life sciences and...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pink Lotus Breast Center, a comprehensive and integrative breast center exclusively dedicated to the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, today announced the unveiling of GE Healthcare's Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography ("CESM") technology at its flagship breast center in Beverly Hills. CESM will be provided at the facility's Sheryl Crow Imaging Center - the first facility in the country to make...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A consistent theme within healthcare and the transformation of the patient-doctor relationship, technological innovation and disease treatment is progression. An example of this continual market growth can be seen in healthcare IT, which is expected to become the single biggest business model disruptor to the healthcare industry. Companies must maintain a vantage point over these shifts to make strategic, well-informed and...
