The Medical Device Business Journal — Medical Device News & Articles | MassDevice
Louis Krami, CEO of Idaho’s Bingham Memorial Hospital, admitted to 2nd degree stalking charges after he ordered hospital IT staff to record the phone calls of former Bingham doctor Robert Rosin and his staff.
In the culmination of the 18-month investigation, Krami faces 30 days in behind bars, a $1,000 fine and 100 hours of community service. Hospital IT employees Chris Behunin, Tyler Lassen and IT director Jack York were also implicated in the illegal wiretap activity.
Privately held Mercator MedSystems plans to launch sales of its Bullfrog and Cricket micro-infusion systems with the new $6.5 million in funding the California company raised in a Series B round.
Mercator will initiate sales in Europe, the U.S. and Australia, and will also use the funds to support clinical studies of its peripheral artery disease product platform.
Mercator MedSystems touted European regulatory approvals for a pair of micro-infusion catheters for the treatment of peripheral artery disease.
The San Leandro, Calif.-based medical device company received CE Mark approval in the European Union to market its Cricket and Bullfrog catheters, which are designed to inject therapeutic agents safely through blood vessel walls into deep tissues. The pair of products already have FDA clearance for the U.S. market.
