Health Industry Today articles from March 2001

Health Industry Today archives from March 2001

'Net providers acquiring assets to help them assume identities.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2001... The trio of major players fighting to establish a home within the expanding landscape of the e-commerce marketplace have discovered they're required to invent identities as third-party providers but not reinvent the wheel. Within a time...

Federal diversity program making small device firms a HUB of activity.(Historically Underutilized Business)(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2001... A federal program designed to open up marketing opportunities to a wider spectrum of device and med-surg product suppliers has begun to unlock the doors of the organizations usually suspected of keeping them most tightly shut. Enacted late...

Medical device and supply companies evaluate their emerging e-commerce strategies.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2001... With Internet and computer industry stocks in the tank, medical device makers and distributors are wondering about the future of e-commerce for the health care industry's supply chain. The most likely answer is that e-commerce will happen,...

AROUND THE INDUSTRY.(miscellaneous brief articles)
March 1, 2001... Ampersand Medical Corp., Chicago, signed a definitive agreement to acquire AccuMed Intl. Inc., and said that subject to approval by AccuMed shareholders it expects to close the transaction during the second quarter of 2001. "The...

Agilent hoping Internet's first direct-to-consumer AED sales campaign adds boost to market share.(automated external defibrillator)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... It could be said that Agilent Technologies, a major player in the automated external defibrillator (AED) market (see story, "Public awareness of benefits, federal legislation creating big sales, new markets for defibrillators"), got that way by...

Philips Medical counting on PACS image recovery to reap revenues for new Inturis radiology system.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Picture archiving and communication system (PACS) disaster recovery, a market segment Philips Medical Systems North America regards as a "high growth area" for one of its technology applications, will be addressed by what the company calls the...

ANS's launch plans lie in FDA classification hands.(Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... A tiny device company not afraid to take on industry giants while simultaneously bucking industry trends (see related story, p. 13) has tilted at the biggest industry windmill of all and is anxiously waiting to find out whether it won or lost....

PRODUCT STRATEGY.(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... Surgi-Vision Inc., Columbia, Md., received marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Intercept-Vascular guidewire, a magnetic resonance (MR) coil that can be threaded into a patient's artery or vein to detect...

Public awareness of benefits, federal legislation creating big sales, new markets for defibrillators.
March 1, 2001... Increased public awareness of their benefits and advanced technology making automated external defibrillators (AEDs) easier to use and less expensive to obtain is driving the worldwide demand for the devices, rapidly broadening the scope of a...

Device firms holding slender portion of market as pharmaceuticals take over pain management.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Medical device companies fighting for ground in the pain management field are waging a losing battle while the market segment continues to expand. And there's a simple reason for it--pharmaceutical firms are marketing more and better drugs. ...

CONTRACT NOTES.
March 1, 2001... CardioDynamics Intl. Corp., San Diego, received the largest end-user order in company history when the Romanian Health Agency purchased 20 of the firm's BioZ, noninvasive digital cardiac function-monitoring systems. The company won the...

From giant leap forward to one small 'Net step, device, med-surg firms adopt cautious approach.
March 1, 2001... The Internet revolution that once seemed a giant leap forward for health care e-commerce now appears to be an evolutionary process consisting of one step at a time. Early expectation that device manufacturers and med-surg product suppliers...

E4MDs says surviving Internet shakeout of Y2K means 'Net site poised to enable supplier profits.
March 1, 2001... Everything4MDs.com (E4MDs), an online provider that calls itself the nation's largest privately held B2B e-commerce company for physician practices, radiology centers and other health care provider delivery systems, says last year's results...

AmeriNet, MedAssets launch platform for refurbished imaging equipment sales.
March 1, 2001... Group purchasing organization (GPO) AmeriNet has teamed with MedAssets Exchange to launch a co-branded Internet site. The agreement makes the Wood Dale, Ill., company the GPO's sole source provider for mobile imaging systems for interim...

CHM schedules beta testing of its online marketplace.
March 1, 2001... Canadian Health Marketplace (CHM) says Lakeridge Health of Oshawa, Ont., will be the first health care institution to move its purchasing to the online e-commerce source in a beta test scheduled to begin later this month. As profiled in...

Health care providers sensing increased pressure to connect suppliers, patients, M.D.s via Internet.
March 1, 2001... Despite ongoing obstacles to e-commerce, device and med-surg product suppliers should be aware that health care provider organizations and insurers are adopting e-business technologies and strategies to improve how care is delivered and how...

Health care M&A activity hits seven-year low.
March 1, 2001... Merger and acquisition activity within the health care services sector hit a seven-year low during the fourth quarter of 2000, declining to an even greater extent than the usual slump in final-quarter activity that has become the norm during...

Health care demand, utilization forecast offered by category, year, geographic region in AIS report.
March 1, 2001... Device and med-surg product suppliers interested in how consumer demand is expected to impact health services should check into a new offering from Atlantic Information Services Inc. (AIS). Health care demand and utilization forecasts for...

URAC directory lists managed care contacts.
March 1, 2001... Making contact with managed care organizations became easier for device and med-surg product suppliers when URAC released its 2001 edition of The Directory of Accredited Organizations, a 385-page overview of health care organizations that meet...

HIGPA event to focus on emerging technology.
March 1, 2001... Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA) will set its sights on the evolution and technology of 21st century health care when it holds its 2001 Medical Technologies Forum May 9-11, 2001, in New Orleans. HIGPA says the event is...

American Diabetes Assn. to hold 61st Scientific Sessions.
March 1, 2001... American Diabetes Association (ADA) says device and med-surg product suppliers hoping to reach health care professionals and scientists involved in diabetes research or the delivery of diabetes care would be well advised to attend the...

Groups join forces to present 1st World Congress of Nephrology.
March 1, 2001... Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco will be the site of the first World Congress of Nephrology when the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the Intl. Society of Nephrology (ISN) hold their first event October 12-17, 2001, in San...