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Entries for May 2012

Oslo Medtech chairman Carl Christian Gilhuus-Moe  and CEO Kathrine Myhre attracted several US medtech companies to launch their products through the “Medtech Gateway to Europe” initiative during an intensive 4 day visit to Minneapolis.

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Oslo Medtech attracted nearly 100 representatives from the Norwegian R&D and medtech industry on May 7 for the seminar “Health and state seed funds”.  The participants were all eager to learn about how to achieve an effective and good health care industry as well as economic development and growth.

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Six Oslo Medtech members have been awarded BIA grants from The Research Council of Norway.

The BIA (Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena) program is a funding scheme directed at R&D projects where the grants awarded by The Research Council of Norway represent 35 percent of the total project cost. The total amount of BIA funding available from The Research Council this year is NOK 500 million.
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Clayton ChristensenWhat the heck does the inside of an iPhone have to do with healthcare reform? Well, to Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, quite a bit actually.

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Medtech company  Abilia is ready to tender its smart house solutions to the planned municipal housing for elderly in Oslo and Skien.  Abilia joined Oslo Medtech speed dating meeting and found five potential partners.

Oslo and Skien will build up to 1000 new houses for elderly in need of care in the coming years, based on smarthouse technologies. The tender was launched April 23rd in Oslo with a 45 days deadline for entrants to deliver their offer. Skien will launch its tender in June.
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The market for welfare technology in Norway has a huge potential, but it will probably take some time before it reaches significant volumes. – The process of implementing welfare technology in the municipalities takes some time, says Roger Sletta, Sales Manager in Hospital IT.

Hospital IT is one of the companies competing for contracts to deliver welfare technology solutions to 92 smarthouses for elderly in need of care, to be built in the Kampen district of Oslo.
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Wireless Patient Recording Medical (WPR Medical) will soon launch its brand new wireless ECG monitoring device. WPR Medical was part of the Oslo Medtech organized tour to USA in May, and is seeking partners with access to markets.

It has taken the Arendal-based company nearly ten years and NOK 40 million to develop the wireless ECG monitoring device. The device was approved by both FDA and EU about a year ago, and has been put through extensive clinical trials in both Sørlandet Hospital Arendal and Feiring klinikken.
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A young Norwegian surgeon has probably solved a problem no one else in the world was able to solve. After five years, the prototype is ready. Medtech company Urological AS hopes to land its first contract before year end.

Urologist and surgeon Knut Eilert Karlsen is the inventor of Cath-Tract, which is a safe vesical access sheath that simplifies indwelling catheter care. He founded Urological in 2006 and the company has since developed his idea into a patented product soon to be released in the markets.
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