St. Mary’s Medical Center|SCL Health (St. Mary’s), the region’s top hospital, and Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado), one of the nation’s top 10 children’s hospitals, announced today they have entered into a formal Care Alliance collaboration to provide children and their families with the highest level of coordinated medical care as close to home as possible. St. Mary’s Medical Center …

Houston Health Ventures (HHV) has announced its early March investment in Allotrope Medical, Inc., a Houston-based medical device company bringing to market a novel ureter detection device for minimally invasive surgery.  HHV led the investment along with syndication support from the Houston Angel Network. David Franklin, Managing Director of HHV, comments, “We are very excited to add Allotrope Medical’s hand-held …

Lantheus Holdings announced the signing of a definitive license agreement (the “definitive agreement”) for the continued Phase III development and worldwide commercialization of flurpiridaz F 18, an investigational positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) agent that may improve the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common form of heart disease. The definitive agreement follows the signing …

Surgical Information Systems (“SIS”), a leader in perioperative information systems, announced it has acquired SourceMed, a leader in ambulatory surgery center (ASC) software and services. The addition of SourceMed solutions to the award-winning SIS product suite, which includes SIS hospital and Amkai ambulatory products, positions the company to meet the needs of hospitals, ASCs, and ASC management companies. SourceMed develops …

Portal Instruments, a clinical stage medical device start-up company announced today that it has received ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 13485:2012 Certification by the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) certifying body. ISO 13485:2012, Quality Management Standard for Medical Devices is the international standard requirements for a comprehensive quality management system for the design and manufacture of medical devices. This …

Becton, Dickinson & Co. said Sunday that it would acquire C.R. Bard Inc. for $24 billion, the latest merger of medical-supplies manufacturers. The deal values C.R. Bard at $317 a share, a 25.2% premium to the company’s share price as of Friday’s close. Bard shareholders will receive about $222.93 a share in cash and the balance in Becton Dickinson stock, …

GenMark Diagnostics announced it has achieved CE Mark under the European In?Vitro Diagnostic Devices Directive (98/79/EC) for its ePlex Blood Culture Identification Fungal Pathogen (BCID-FP) Panel. BCID-FP is the first panel in the GenMark Sepsis Solution, which will also include BCID Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative panels. “We are very pleased to bring the first of our three blood culture identification panels …

Vivify Health, the pioneer and market leader of remote care via mobile devices, has been awarded a very significant patent for the advancement of healthcare delivery from episodic care via EMRs to continual care via digital health.  This landmark patent provides the company with broad protection of key intellectual property and further secures Vivify’s position as the leader in remote …

Deerfield Management announced its plan to acquire Adeptus Health with a long-term commitment to the delivery of high quality, efficient emergency care.  Deerfield is a 23 year-old firm focused on advancing healthcare through investment, information, and philanthropy.  With over $8 billion in assets, and industry leading investment, operations, and market research teams, Deerfield brings to Adeptus highly relevant expertise in …

Lifetrack Medical Systems announced US FDA approval of its Lifesys™ PACS, the first 4th generation PACS enabling truly distributed radiology for better healthcare. Already deployed in Southeast Asia and South Asia, Lifetrack’s patented platform is extending the reach of high quality medicine by greatly simplifying and speeding deployment of digital radiology, all while significantly reducing costs, and solving the greatest …