Abbott and St. Jude Medical have announced an agreement in principle to sell certain products to Terumo Corporation for a total purchase price of approximately $1.12 billion. The transaction is subject to the successful completion of Abbott’s acquisition of St. Jude Medical and antitrust regulatory approvals.
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A major development in the wearable technology and devices market is quickly becoming popular, according to new research conducted by Transparency Market Research. The firm found that the wearable devices market, or the remote patient monitoring devices market, is anticipated to reach $0.98 billion by the end of 2020—at a compound annual growth rate of 14.2%.
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Agfa HealthCare will display its DX-D 60 Retrofit 17-inch by 17-inch detector, in addition to other imaging technologies at the 2016 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, which takes place from November 27 to December 2 in Chicago.
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Ben Mannisto, president and CEO of Southfield, Mich.-based Phoenix Data Systems; Vishal Malhotra, chief technology officer at Charlotte, NC-based EQ2; and Sandra Calderon, an Atlanta-based management consultant at FBC, an authorized Tesseract solution provider, sat down with 24×7 to discuss what every HTM professional should know about the computerized maintenance management system market segment.
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MRI—despite being plagued by high costs—is one of the hottest imaging modalities around. Eric Jean, senior vice president and general manager of global MRI at Andover, Mass.-based Philips Healthcare; Mike Ghazal, president/CEO of MRI and CT service at Lake Zurich, Ill.-based Zetta Medical Technologies; and Ioannis Panagiotelis, chief marketing officer of MR at GE Healthcare in Chicago sat down with 24×7 to discuss what’s fueling MRI growth. Don’t miss out.
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