Welch Allyn has a long history of finding solutions that help solve patient care problems. The company was founded in 1915 when Dr. Francis A. Welch and William Noah Allyn built the world's first handheld direct-illuminating ophthalmoscope. The company has since expanded its offering of diagnostic and therapeutic devices to include blood pressure scopes, otoscopes, stethoscopes, thermometers, exam lamps, patient monitoring systems, and cardiac defibrillators. Welch Allyn is also a maker of diagnostic veterinary devices, and it provides supply chain consulting and product support and training services. Descendents of the founding Allyn family own the company and continue to be involved in its management.

Linkwell Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and distribution of disinfectant health care products primarily to the medical industry in China. It offers disinfectant products for various applications, such as skin and mucous membrane disinfectants, hand disinfectants, environment and surface disinfectants, medical devices and equipment disinfectants, machine disinfectants, and animal disinfectants. Linkwell Corporation provides its products in liquids and gel, tablets and powder, aerosol, chemical indicator, foam, and disinfectant appliance forms. It also sells products that are developed and manufactured by third parties. Linkwell Corporation’s customers include hospitals, medical suppliers, and distribution companies. Linkwell Corporation was founded in 1988 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Nanosphere is offering molecular diagnostics for the masses: Its molecular testing system is intended for use in hospital-based laboratories that don't have the money or expertise to maintain the complex genomic testing equipment often reserved for reference labs and research centers. Known as Verigene, the company's diagnostic system is a more compact and simpler workstation designed to perform multiple genomic and protein tests simultaneously on a single sample. The company also sells Verigene-compatible tests, including hematology, cystic fibrosis, and influenza diagnostic assays. Nanosphere has several other tests, including HPV (the virus that causes cervical cancer) in the works.

United Health Services Hospitals can service injuries from a slip in the snow, a slipped disc in the back, or health that's just plain slipping. United Health Services Hospitals operates Binghamton General Hospital (about 220 beds) and Wilson Regional Medical Center (some 300 beds) as well as a network of primary and specialty health care clinics serving Broome County and surrounding counties in upstate New York. Specialty services include cardiovascular care, dialysis services, neurology, rehabilitation, pediatrics, and psychiatry. The Wilson Medical Center serves as a teaching hospital offering residency and fellowship programs. United Health Services Hospitals is a subsidiary of United Health Services.

Alteer wants doctors to tear up their paper charts. Founded in 1996, Alteer provides health care management software and services, including practice enhancement and process reengineering, designed to help providers eliminate paper charts and automate workflow processes. The company's services integrate electronic medical records, electronic charting, billing, and reporting, for more than 1,200 doctors' offices and medical practices in the US. Alteer knows that software only works when customers know how to use it, so it emphasizes hand-holding services to help its customers in their quests for efficiency. Alteer is a subsidiary of American Healthcare Holdings, a provider-based health care technology company.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield is a largest health benefits provider, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama administers individual, corporate and federal employer-sponsored, and Medicare health plans to more than 3 million members representing about 30,000 companies. Its insurance products include PPO and high-deductible health plans, as well as dental policies. The company also sells long-term care insurance (dubbed Preferred LTC), and it provides disease management services and wellness programs. It is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina is an integrated non-profit health delivery system serving a 29-county area of eastern North Carolina. University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina is academically affiliated with Brody School of Medicine at Eastern Carolina University. The system is comprised of half a dozen hospitals, including the acute care Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH), as well as physicians' practices and clinics, surgery centers, a home health service, and numerous community health programs. PCMH has 760 beds and a staff of 500 physicians and 1,200 nurses. University Health Systems is affiliated with East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine.

Waterbury Hospital hopes it is to its cardiologists. The community teaching hospital, serving western Connecticut, has been named one of the top hospitals in the nation for cardiac intervention. Of course, hearts aren't the only body parts Waterbury Hospital treats; the full-service facility has about 360 beds and offers services that include inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care, an orthopedic center, and an outpatient surgery center. Waterbury Hospital, founded in 1890, forms the cornerstone of the Greater Waterbury Health Network, which provides area residents with a range of outpatient health services, from nursing care to hospice, imaging, and laboratory services.

Women & Children's Hospital of Lake Charles is there to help. The specialty hospital has been serving the ladies and their babies in southwestern Louisiana for more than two decades. The acute care facility provides patients with a range of services including emergency and maternity care, a neonatal intensive care unit, a pediatrics unit, and radiology. The hospital has expedited its admitting process in recent years by allowing patients to pre-register online with their eAdmitting program. It also offers new mommies a "Baby University" to help them unlock the mysteries of parenting. The facility is part of Community Health Systems.

Rapid City Regional Hospital's medical facility is a general and psychiatric hospital with more than 400 acute care beds and 50 psychiatric beds located in western Black Hills of South Dakota. In addition to emergency and acute care, the not-for-profit hospital also offers a diabetes center, a 50 bed behavioral health center, a rehabilitation facility, and a cancer care institute. Rapid City Regional Hospital, which was established in 1973, is part of Regional Health, a network of five regional hospitals and more than two dozen medical clinics and senior care centers.

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