Practice Fusion announces first VP of product management | Personnel Moves

June 16, 2011 By MassDevice staff

Here’s the latest personnel changes from medical device, diagnostics and life science companies around the nation. For more recent hirings and firings, check out MassDevice’s compilation of the latest personnel moves.

Practice Fusion announces first VP of product management
Electronic medical record company Practice Fusion appointed former athenahealth executive Edwin Miller as its first VP of product management. Practice Fusion is the fastest growing EMR community in the U.S., according to company officials.

The company’s HR department has had a busy year with the announcement of a new CFO in March and a new VP of marketing in April.

Read our interview with Practice Fusion founder and CEO Ryan Howard from June, 2010.

This latest announcement comes on the heels of the San Francisco-based company’s recent achievement of full federal certification as a complete EHR provider by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT.
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ViaCyte appoints former Edwards manager to VP of device research and development
ViaCyte Inc. named Michael Scott VP of device research and development today, where he will oversee all development and manufacturing activities including design, engineering, and testing while contributing to regulatory matters. Scott comes to the San Diego-based diabetes-focused cell therapy company from Edwards Lifesciences, where his most recent role was as senior director of engineering for heart valve therapies.
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Allegro assigns new president & CEO
Allegro Diagnostics appointed Michael Webb as president & CEO and added him to the company’s board of directors. Webb brings more than 25 years of leadership experiences in the biomedical industry to the Maynard, Mass.-based diagnostics company.
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HeartSine names new president
HeartSine Technologies Inc. announced that William McChesney will take over as president for the personal and public defibrillator company, succeeding Gregory Cash who served as president for four years. McChesney is a 30-year veteran of financial, manufacturing and service in industries including healthcare and telecommunications in Europe, the U.S., Asia and Australia.
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Freeland Systems adds a new VIP of sales, marketing and business development
Freeland Systems announced the appointment of Michael Kingcaid as VP of sales, marketing and business development. Kingcaid brings 30 years of experience in complex medical hardware and software sales to the Venice, Fla.-based imaging technology company.
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RepRegen chairman resigns
Dr. Stephan Rietiker resigned as chairman of Switzerland-based RepRegen, citing "significant and competing workload and responsibilities" as the reason for his departure.
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Hotspur names its first board chairman
Mountainview, Calif.-based Hotspur Technologies announced the appointment of Fred Khosravi as chairman of the board for the catheter-based technologies company. Khosravi is a Hotspur cofounder and served on the board prior to being appointed to the newly created chairman position.
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Cleveland Clinic’s medical director for cardiac intensive care shifts to Summa Cardiovascular
Dr. Marc Penn resigned as medical director of cardiac intensive care to serve as director of research at Summa Cardiovascular Institute and professor of medicine and integrative medical sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University.
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Generex appoints CEO for post-spinout Antigen Express
Generex Biotechnology Corp. (OTC:GNBT) announced the appointment of Jos van der Woert as CEO of its wholly-owned subsidiary Antigen Express Inc. following its spinout as a stand-alone public company. van der Woert brings extensive experience in the oncology arena to the Worcester, Mass.-based cancer vaccine platform technology maker.
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How COVID-19 impacts FDA interactions with medical device manufacturers
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group The US Food and Drug Administration may revise performance goals and timelines set under the Medical Device User Fee Amendments IV (MDUFA IV) as emergency efforts targeting the coronavirus pandemic take up more of the agency’s time. Get the full story here at the Emergo Group’s blog. The opinions expressed… […]
Switchback Medical adds ‘sandbox approach’ to device testing
Contract manufacturer Switchback Medical (Maple Grove, Minn.) today announced that it has added a new division. Switchback BioSim Innovations offers functional dynamic biosimulator model development, cell culture services and physician training, according to the company. Biosimulator models use animal and human tissue to create functional models, such as a pumping heart with working valves to… […]
Smith College team wins ventilator design challenge
A team of Smith College engineering alumnae, staff and faculty has won the CoVent-19 Challenge to design a rapidly deployable ventilator to address shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in developing countries. A dozen anesthesiology resident physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital kicked off the public challenge April 1, attracting 200 entries. The 30-person team… […]
FDA gives certain device makers more time to add UDIs
The FDA said today that it will grant manufacturers of Class 1 and unclassified medical devices and certain others more time to add unique device identifiers (UDIs) to their products. These companies will now have until Sept. 24, 2022 to comply with the agency’s UDI rule, including standard date formatting, labeling and Global Unique Device… […]
Eurofins launches 10-minute COVID-19 exposure testing device
Eurofins (Paris:ERF.PA) announced today that it launched its rapid point-of-care testing devices to identify past exposure to COVID-19. The serology-based, finger-prick tests detect antibodies with a sensitivity of 94.5% from 19 days following the onset of symptoms, with results coming in just 10 minutes, according to a news release. Get the full story at our sister site,… […]
How is RF technology shaping the future of medtech?
RF technology, including microwaves, isn’t just about wireless communications or military radar these days. Times Microwave Systems experts point out that it is increasingly important when it comes to medtech. Many medical electronics systems such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems for cancer detection rely on RF/microwave technology. Times Microwave Systems (Wallingford, Conn.) is hosting… […]
Medical device litigation and COVID-19: What you need to know
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a new set of medical device litigation challenges — but also a chance for an industry reset. One of Greenberg Traurig’s top medtech litigation lawyers shares her insights. Sara Thompson doesn’t take any guff when she tells people that she defends medical device and pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits. “I say,… […]
Mayo Clinic needed to engineer its way through COVID-19: Here’s what they did.
The health system’s medical and engineering staffs had to devise their own solutions for lab gear, PPE and operating room air decontamination. As COVID-19 settles into several regions of the U.S., healthcare systems that once sat on the sidelines likely will find themselves in the same situation as their counterparts in the Northeast did earlier… […]
Xenco Medical launches porous spinal implant
Xenco Medical this week said it launched its Cancellex porous titanium lumbar interbodies. The injection-molded titanium foam spinal implants are designed to be pre-attached to disposable, composite polymer instruments. They feature interconnected porosity throughout each implant and are designed to promote bone apposition and facilitate vascularization Each implant is sterile packaged and comes pre-attached to… […]
Applied Plastics adds VP of sales
Applied Plastics (Norwood, Mass.) — maker of PTFE-coated products for advanced catheter systems — announced today that Michael Brown has joined the company as VP of sales and marketing. Brown will be responsible for global sales and marketing, including Applied Plastics’ new online store, which offers shipment within the U.S. and Europe. The company recently… […]
Heraeus Medical Components opens new Collaboration Hub outside Minneapolis
Heraeus Medical Components recently announced that it has opened a new nearly 67,000-square-foot Collaboration Hub in the Minneapolis-St. Paul medtech cluster. The Collaboration Hub — a completely new location near the Heraeus’ existing Fridley, Minn. facility — is meant to provide the company’s customers with the opportunity to work on-site with Heraeus Medical component R&D… […]