NEWS and EVENTS
News from Around Indiana
Just a smattering of stories that highlight companies in Indiana's dynamic health and life science industry. See more stories and IHIF member press releases under the "Downloads" section.
Rose-Hulman Adding Bachelor in Biochemistry Degree Program
MD Logistics New Facility Up and Running
NICO Corporation Secures Funding
AIT Labs Creating Drug Division, Adding 130 Jobs
The RND Group Reviews Banner Year 2008
Sites Medical expects big year
BioStorage Technologies partners with IU Simon Cancer Center
Whimet Inc. Expanding in Kosciusko Co.
Techshot Reports Sales Up 90 Percent for 2008
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PPM Releases Health 2.0 Service to Help Consumers Understand and Track their Own Health
Predictive Physiology and Medicine (PPM) announced the launch of its new Health 2.0 Information System. The web-based Viveda system helps individuals interpret, store, and compare llab test results over time, providing a way to monitor personal health. In today’s healthcare environment of escalating costs and increased preventable chronic disease, Viveda is a valuable tool for educating patients and promoting wellness. With this new service, PPM joins the ranks of other Indiana organizations pushing the state ahead of the curve in Healthcare IT.
Viveda has wide application across healthcare for individuals, employers, laboratories, physicians and hospital systems. Laboratory testing is the primary method used to assess health, diagnose illness, and determine treatments. Each year, more than 100 billion lab tests are performed in the US. But individuals and providers continually grapple with communicating and understanding those lab test results. Viveda streamlines the process and makes results easy-tounderstand. It also stores results long-term, using colorful bar graphs to trend results and monitor changes.
As a companion to the Viveda web-based system, PPM is also developing an iPhone application to be released in the coming weeks. PPM’s CEO Brian Kleber said, “With the completion of our iPhone app individuals will have a portable tool for managing of all their lab test results. Whether that test was performed as part of a work screening event or ordered by a physician in a clinical setting.” He continued, “Viveda has the potential to forever change the way that lab test results, and health care for that matter, are delivered to patients.”
Today’s launch event was held at Indiana University’s Emerging Technology Center, an incubator for life sciences, biotechnology and bioinformatics companies in Indiana. PPM is a spin-out of Indiana University and received early funding from the university’s METACYte Fund. Representatives from across the healthcare spectrum attended today’s event, including Allison Werne a RN and health coach with Community Physicians of Indiana. Werne who plans to use Viveda with her patients over the next few months said, “Many of my patients are struggling with chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, so I’m looking for ways to help them manage their health.” She went on to say, “I’m excited to have a health education tool like Viveda. It provides the understanding patients need to take control of their own health.”
Therametric Technologies, Inc. chooses The RND Group, Inc.
Therametric Technologies, Inc. (TTI) has chosen The RND Group, Inc. to design, develop, and test the FDA compliant software for their FluoreCam System. The FluoreCam is a system that detects potential tooth decay up to two years before problem areas could be located using traditional visual and X-ray methods.
TTI announced yesterday, it will establish its new headquarters in Noblesville, creating 40 new jobs by 2013. Therametric will invest about $4 million to build a 26,000-square-foot facility there. Construction will begin in September and is expected to be complete by spring 2010. At the new facility, Therametric will manufacture its FluoreCam system. Bart Collins, director of Caries Detection Instrument Division, stated “We owe RND a lot. We couldn’t have moved forward with this announcement without the peace of mind we got from working with The RND Group.”
RND brings its extensive experience developing custom software for FDA regulated products to help Therametric design, develop, and test this software. “This project is the perfect fit for RND because it is full lifecycle; is in line with all the other Medical Device projects we are doing ,and leverages our experience successfully delivering C# solutions for the medical device industry”, stated Tim DeFrench, CEO, The RND Group, Inc.
For more information on the RND Group, contact Tom Gardner at 1-317-841-8014 x 101 or via email at tom.gardner@RNDgroup.com.
HealthcareTAP
Purdue's Healthcare Technical Assistance Program partners with Indiana healthcare providers in short-term projects that achieve its mission to improve healthcare quality, safety and efficiency. HealthcareTAP accomplishes this mission by applying the principles of engineering, management and science.
HealthcareTAP is a partnership between Indiana Hospital Association (IHA), Purdue Technical Assistance Program, Purdue's Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and is a corporate partner with Indiana Council of Community Mental Health Centers, Inc.
Sentry Logistic Solutions, Inc. Announces Name Change
Indianapolis, Indiana (May 19, 2009) – Sentry Logistic Solutions, Inc. announced today that the company has changed its name to Sentry BioPharma Services, Inc. The name change was developed to capture Sentry’s enhanced service offerings and market focus required to address the increasingly sophisticated needs of our world class clients.
“As our company has matured over the past four years into a more robust contract biopharmaceutical service provider, we decided this is an ideal time to improve the Company’s branding to better represent our organization” said Jennifer Marcum, Chief Executive Officer. “We believe our new name better reflects our evolution into a contract biopharmaceutical service provider addressing labeling and packaging, supply chain management, coordinated global distribution and fulfillment services supporting high value and stringently regulated legend drug products and materials. Sentry BioPharma Services, Inc. will continue to incorporate an entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, speed of execution, quality, service, and team work. We believe Sentry BioPharma Services, Inc. better represents our company and its mission.”
Along with the new name, Sentry BioPharma Services, Inc. has developed a new corporate logo and website that can be found at www.sentrybps.com. The name change is effective immediately.
Battelle State Bioscience Initiatives 2008
The Nation's bioscience industry continues to grow as states and regions vie to attract high-wage jobs, according to a study released by Battelle and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
The study, "Technology, Talent and Capital" State Bioscience Initiatives 2008", presents data on national, state, and metropolitan bioscience employment and growth trends during 2001 to 2006. The study also examines a series of additional key performance metrics and describes state policies and programs designed to accelerate the growth of the biosciences. The report has been produced from the most current and comparable annual data available.
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STUDY RANKS INDIANA IN TOP 10
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INDIANAPOLIS (Wednesday, Dec.12, 2007) – In another indication of the state’s strength in the life sciences sector, a recently released national study found that Indiana now ranks among the nation’s top ten states for medical technology.
Conducted by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the report placed Indiana in the top ten for the number of workers in the medical technology field, for wages and for new jobs created to support the industry.
Medical technology products range from eyeglasses, stethoscopes, blood pressure monitors, hospital equipment and furniture to heart pacemakers, replacement joints, kidney dialysis machines and irradiation and imaging systems.