Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Practice Fusion has been getting some attention from the Wall Street Journal and other publications. The company offers systems to put medical records in digital files, at a price that's hard to beat -- free. The service will be funded by advertising. In addition to a medical records system, Practice Fusion offers practice-management tools, such as billing systems. Practice Fusion's target is the 2/3 of physicians who operate in small groups of 8 or less. Physicians Integrated Medical Group, an association of about 500 independent doctors in San Francisco and San Mateo counties, is the first medical group to sign on with Practice Fusion.

Noxilizer *, a C stage company, is developing proprietary, next-generation sterilization technology that is critical to enabling new product commercialization in multi-billion dollar markets for advanced medical implants. Noxilizer's solution -room-temperature terminal sterilization- permits new polymers to be used and eliminates the need for multimillion dollar sterile facilities. Noxilizer will commercialize its sterilization systems, including products and consumables, for in-line manufacturing as well as for stand-alone, point-of-use systems.

Signalink Technologies Inc.*
has developed a core communications platform and engine that is deployed by using the existing wiring infrastructure in any building. This award winning "power line" technology eliminates the need for additional wiring in most apartment and condominium fire alarm signaling retrofit situations. They are initially focused on the Fire Protection industry. The Fire-Link system is a supplemental fire signaling system targeting multi-tenant residential buildings. It sends signals over the power line, with or without AC power on, and puts the alarm where it is needed most: the rear bedrooms.

Kandy Brights is the inventor, manufacturer and marketer of a patent-pending line of delicious chocolate birthday candles that really light! Kandy Brights are a fun, taste–treat alternative to boring all-wax birthday candles. The initial product set, which closely resemble their established all-wax counterparts, include eight-packs of sticks and numbers 0-9. Kandy Brights™ are consumer- and retail-tested, and ready for market. They were the inspiration of a 12-year-old girl at a family birthday party. Now you can Eat Your Cake and Candles Too!

Femsuite * has a range of products (some of them available now, some in the pipeline) aimed at gynecologists and their patients. The company’s signature products are its FemEye One and Two lines . The FemEye One is a reusable camera that comes with disposable sanitary sleeves and may eventually replace the traditional colposcope. The FemEye Two (available soon) is a unique, disposable shaft – reusable handle, uterine camera that will cost the end user well less than one hundred dollars.

Altedo * offers a software-as-a-service web-based version of a your desktop folder system that allows sharing content and managing and coordinating projects with others. Altēdo currently supports email, calendar, contacts, files, notes, tasks and bookmarks. Information is stored in context-sensitive project folders in a familiar tree structure. Folders contain everything about a project or customer, and can store any type of item. Folders can be individual private folders, or shared folders accessible by other Altēdo users. Additionally, Altēdo allows its users to share items with others without accounts on the system.