Press Releases
Life Spine, a medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets products for the surgical treatment of spinal disorders, announced today the first surgical case of the PROLIFT LATERAL HELO FIXATED Expandable Lateral Spacer System. The PROLIFT LATERAL HELO FIXATED with Osseo-Loc® Surface Technology offers a micro invasive solution for Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion. With in situ lordotic expansion from 5o up to 20o, PROLIFT LATERAL HEL
Read more...Varsity Healthcare Partners, a leading healthcare services private equity investment firm, announced today the close of its sale of Probo Medical, LLC to Avista Capital Partners (“Avista”). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. VHP initially invested in Probo in September 2018, at which point Probo was focused exclusively on the U.S. ultrasound repair and resale market. Since that time, the VHP and Probo partnership has worked collaboratively to both grow and dive
Read more...8 March 2022
Tausight, the PHI detection company for healthcare, today unveiled the healthcare market’s first automated, situational awareness platform to detect, track and analyze PHI activity and risk in real-time, anywhere in today’s distributed healthcare ecosystem. Architected by David Ting (founder and CTO), co-founder and former CTO of Imprivata, Tausight’s intelligent, turnkey solution provides IT security teams with 24x7 telemetry on the creation, access, storage, movement and r
Read more...PPG today announced that its PPG PSX™ polysiloxane coatings have been tested successfully by an independent, third-party laboratory to the requirements for C4H (or high C4) certification under the ISO 12944-6:2018 international standard for corrosion protection of steel structures by paint systems Under this standard, an exposure environment classified as C4 is described as highly corrosive. Such environments include industrial and coastal areas with moderate salinity an
Read more...8 March 2022
Walgreens and Labcorp, a leading global life sciences company, today announced the nationwidei availability of Pixel by Labcorp®ii COVID-19 at-home collection kit, a PCR test available through Labcorp OnDemand™ at no cost to individuals who meet clinical guidelines*. Walgreens addition of the kits, which are provided in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will enable more communities to access reliable, convenient testing services when, where a
Read more...4 March 2022
Stanford Children's Health and John Muir Health have extended their health care operating agreement to 2032 to further deepen a partnership that continues to meet the unique needs of pediatric and neonatal patients in the East Bay. This agreement provides John Muir Health pediatric patients with high-level care that is not only local but also seamlessly supported by a top-10-rated children's hospital in the nation if a higher level of care is required. "Ten years ago, w
Read more...Medline today announced a $75 million prime vendor partnership with Massachusetts-based Covenant Health. The two organizations will collaborate to identify new strategies for enhancing patient outcomes and streamlining supply chain operations across the three-hospital health system. "Covenant Health is committed to the health of the individuals and communities we serve," said Stephen Forney, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Covenant Health. "We are
Read more...3 March 2022
Qumulo, the leader in data storage and management at scale, today announced it has been declared one of the “Top 5” vendors in the 2022-2023 DCIG Top 5 Rising Vendors in Storage for Healthcare report. DCIG recently completed a thorough examination of the healthcare storage market. That research includes the analysis of 16 different vendors from which DCIG selected the top five vendors that hospitals and other healthcare organizations should consider when designing their storage so
Read more...HCA Healthcare, Inc. one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that the organization and the HCA Healthcare Foundation gave more than $41 million to community organizations in 2021. The funding includes contributions made to organizations focused on addressing disaster relief, education and high priority community needs, as well as matching gifts to support colleagues’ charities of choice. HCA Healthcare supports communities in multiple ways,
Read more...CHAPPER healthcare – a leading UK-based global pharmaceutical wholesaler & distributor – has today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis Ltd for the distribution of Aridol® (also known as Osmohale®), an asthma management tool, in the UK & Ireland. The Aridol®/Osmohale® mannitol challenge test is an innovative lung function test designed to help doctors diagnose and manage asthma by detecti
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