BiancaMed
BiancaMed, based in Dublin, Ireland, aims to transform personal health by providing the ultimate convenience in personal health monitoring. At the core of BiancaMed's product platform is a very sensitive motion sensor that detects heart rate and respiration - without having to touch a person - completely wirelessly. The sensor, combined with the company's sophisticated health analysis software, provides solutions to monitor and to help improve the wellness of sleep, the heart, respiration and fitness. The company's product line, including baby monitors, as well as an array of home health and exercise monitors, will ultimately be provided with the convenience and ease of a mobile phone.
BodyMedia
BodyMedia makes wearable
body monitors and software that collect, store, process,
and represent accurate and continuous body data such as
energy expenditure, activity levels, sleep states and
other important physiologic data anywhere and anytime.
Such data is central to
healthcare research and disease management, and was previously
accurately collectable only in laboratory environments.
Due to their accuracy, wearability, and affordability,
BodyMedia's products and customized software are finding
applications in a wide range of markets including self-care
weight management, sleep management, industry safety and
performance sports.
CardioVasc
CardioVasc has developed
a bio-mimetic coating that can be covalently bonded
to the surface of insertable medical devices in
order to promote a more rapid healing of adjacent cells.
The bio-mimetic surface of the company's balloon-expandable
cardiovascular implant are coated with sequences of
extracellular matrix proteins that have the ability
to improve and accelerate the regeneration of the endothelium
(i.e., the superficial lining membrane of the blood
vessels).
Direct Flow Medical
Direct Flow Medical, based in Santa Rosa, California, is a medical device
company developing a percutaneous aortic tissue valve prosthesis to provide
patients requiring treatment of cardiac valve insufficiency with a safe and
effective percutaneous option. Approximately 1.2 million people over the age
of 65 have calcified aoritc valves; yet only an estimated 150,000 are
surgically treated each year.
Egeen
Egeen is an emerging
biotechnology company with exclusive commercial rights
to information from the Estonian Gene Bank. The Estonian
Gene
Bank is a major national effort sponsored by the Estonian
Government with the objective of gathering medical information
and samples from a significant portion of the population.
EGeen, as the exclusive licensee utilizes this comprehensive
database for drug and diagnostic discovery, as well
as personalized medicine applications.
iKang
iKang is a first mover in China’s private healthcare management market, providing one-stop full-service healthcare management services. Its services include physical check-up and patient consultation, doctor referral and appointment reservation, disease screening, and personal health profile and management. Using an unique online/offline model, iKang has the potential to rapidly grow into a category dominant leader.
Korea Bone Bank
Korea Bone Bank, based in Seoul Korea, is the largest and only one of the
two Korea Food and Drug Administration approved processors of allograft
bones and connective tissues for transplantation. The Company uses donated
tissue to make bone products for various surgery markets including
orthopedic, neurological, oral/maxillofacial, dental, and general clinical
markets.
Median
MEDIAN Technologies is at the cross-roads
of healthcare and new technologies. MEDIAN develops
and sells proprietary medical Computer
Aided Detection/Diagnosis (CAD) Applications. The CAD
applications are based on the company’s unique
3D medical image analysis platform, CAD-Platform™.
The technology platform is derived from more than 10
years of research by some of the most famous medical
imaging labs in the world and from 8 years of development
performed by HealthCenter Inc. to industrialize, test
and validate the technology. It allows the automatic
analysis of 3D medical images from a number of modalities
including CT, MRI, ultrasound and nuclear medicine.
Physicians can extract and quantify information below
the level of visual perception for more precise diagnosis,
to detect and monitor the progression of various diseases,
to allow comparison with population models and to merge
information from multiple modalities to better characterize
lesions or tumors. (http://www.mediantechnologies.com)
Spinal Modulation, Inc
Spinal Modulation, Inc. is developing next generation Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) technology to treat chronic pain. Menlo Park, CA.
SpinX Technologies
SpinX designs and develops products which exploit its innovative programmable micro-fluidics technology. The company's platform offers a fully integrated solution which drastically reduces manual work, while avoiding complex and costly robotics infrastructures, and can be used in a wide variety of applications, from drug discovery to consumer diagnostics.The reduced consumption of samples, reagents and other consumables enables increased throughput and results in significant cost savings. Protocols are coded in the software, allowing maximum flexibility in adapting to specific assays and reagents.
Thermâge
Thermâge
is a medical technology company that is developing a
radio-frequency-based device designed for the treatment
of skin in
dermatology and plastic surgery applications. Since
its foundation in 1995, Thermâge has built a foundation
of patents and technologies based on the premise that
radio frequency energy can be used to achieve desired
cosmetic and therapeutic effects on the skin.
Trivitron Diagnostics
Trivitron Diagnostics Private Limited, based in Chennai, is engaged in the
distribution and value added reselling of health care equipment, medical
devices and consumables in India.
Trivitron specializes in a comprehensive range of medical device solutions
covering the fields of imaging, cardiology, nephrology, critical care,
orthopedics, anesthesiology, intensive care, obstetrics & gynecology,
radiology, urology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, microbiology,
biochemistry, hematology, immunology, molecular biology, blood banking,
surgery, home care & geriatrics.
Intrapace
Intrapace is a
developer of endoscopically implanted gastric pacemakers.
These breakthrough devices will dramatically alleviate
symptoms associated with gastroparesis, and promote
satiation in the treatment of obesity. Gastroparesis,
a widely occurring but seldom discussed disease, is
the partial paralysis of the stomach muscles that results
in a seriously impaired ability to empty the contents
of the stomach. The major advantages of an endoscopically
implanted device, as opposed to surgery, is that the
procedure is less invasive and can be performed in an
outpatient setting.
ZARS
ZARS, a leader in the field of non-invasive drug delivery,
develops unique products that administer drugs through
or into the skin
using its patented Controlled Heat-Assisted Drug Delivery
technology. The company has formed multiple commercial
partnerships, and based on its proprietary technologies,
has developed a rich pipeline of potential products.
ZARS, with multiple programs in pre-clinical development,
believes that its technologies will ultimately enable
the successful transdermal delivery of numerous drugs,
thereby addressing many important unmet needs in anesthesia,
pain, panic attacks, nausea, as well as skin disorders.
Zonare
Zonare is a
medical device development company that is pioneering
the fabrication of high-quality, hand-held ultrasound
products for the medical community. Novasonics' ultrasound
products will combine enriched features with innovative
ergonomics to achieve revolutionary price versus performance
in the global ultrasound market.
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