Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) provides an electronic trading exchange designed for health care providers, suppliers, and manufacturers to buy and sell supplies online. GHX aims to lower supply chain costs for its users by allowing them to perform transactions with multiple parties through one electronic platform, as well as by automating the purchasing process and reducing purchase order errors. The firm was founded in 2000 by a group of five health care manufacturers: Abbott Labs, Baxter International, GE Medical Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. It is now owned by the original five plus a slew of other distributors, hospitals, group purchasing organizations, and manufacturers.

MultiCell Technologies is working on multiple therapeutics, but still sells liver cells on the side to help pay the rent. It is developing drug candidates to treat degenerative neurological diseases. Its MCT-125 candidate is being developed as a treatment for the fatigue that comes with multiple sclerosis while MCT-175 is intended to slow the progression of the disease. Two other candidates are targeting breast and cervical cancers. MultiCell also produces liver cells (hepatocytes) and a serum-free culture medium for research. Larger firms, including Corning and Pfizer, have licensed the company's liver cell lines.

Deltex Medical helps doctors keep an eye, or an ear, on their patients' blood flow. The company makes and markets CardioQ, a heart monitor used on critically ill patients and patients undergoing surgery. Via proprietary software and disposable ultrasound probes inserted into the esophagus, the CardioQ system is designed to measure and monitor circulating blood volume in an effort to detect hypovolemia, or decreased blood volume, in patients. With such information in hand, doctors can administer fluid and drugs as necessary, which may help patients with recovery. Deltex markets CardioQ in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Pro-Dex, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of technology-based solutions that incorporate miniature rotary drive systems, embedded motion control, and fractional horsepower DC motors. The company primarily designs, develops, and manufactures rotary drive systems for the medical device and dental industries. It sells various types of private label rotary drive systems for use in dental procedures, as well as cranial, spinal, arthroscopic, and orthopedic surgery. Pro-Dex also designs and manufactures miniature pneumatic motors, fractional horsepower DC motors, and motion control systems for industrial applications in the semi-conductor, automotive, aerospace, and apparel industries. In addition, it offers dental products primarily to original equipment manufacturers and dental product distributors. Further, the company manufactures and supplies embedded multi-axis motion controllers used to regulate the motion of servo and stepper motors for the factory automation, scientific research, and medical analysis equipment industries. Pro-Dex markets its products to hospitals, dental offices, medical engineering labs, commercial and military aircraft, scientific research facilities, and high tech manufacturing operations worldwide. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

American HealthChoice operates medical clinics, makes medical devices, and provides other health related services in the southeastern US. Its AHC Medical Clinics unit owns and operates eight medical clinics in Texas and Tennessee and provides support services to about 35 affiliated clinics. Through its TelmedCo unit, American HealthChoice offers telemedicine services, allowing doctors at its own and third-party clinics to get second opinions from remote specialists. A third unit, RehabCo, has developed the OmniBody Scan medical imaging system, which uses infrared technology to detect breast cancer and other conditions.

Conceptus, Inc. designs, develops, and markets minimally invasive devices for reproductive medical applications. It offers Essure, a permanent birth control system for women. The Essure system delivers a micro-insert into a woman's fallopian tubes, causing benign tissue in-growth that blocks the fallopian tubes. The company distributes its products through direct sales force and distributor networks primarily to physicians and hospitals. It primarily operates in the United States, France, and the rest of Europe. Conceptus, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Northwest Texas Healthcare has a (pan)handle on the medical problems of the state's northernmost region. Part of the Universal Health Services (UHS) health system, Northwest Texas Healthcare System features the Northwest Texas Hospital and its related facilities and programs, which serve residents in and around the Texas Panhandle city of Amarillo. The hospital is a 490-bed academic medical center that provides emergency, trauma, diagnostic, surgery, and general inpatient care, as well as about 50 medical specialties. Northwest Texas Healthcare also includes an 85-bed behavioral health pavilion, as well as various outpatient treatment and health awareness programs and services.

HydroCision,Inc. founded in 1994, makes surgical tools that use a high velocity stream of water to cut, hold, and remove tissue in surgical operations. HydroCision has been focused on developing products for spinal surgeries including the SpineJet Resector and SpineJet Currette. Other clinical specialties include plastic surgery, OB/GYN, urology, and general surgery. The company also makes a surgical wound debridement (removal of dead or damaged tissue) line which is licensed and distributed by Smith & Nephew. HydroCision's investors include BioVentures, Oxford Bioscience Partners, and Triathlon Medical Ventures.

Refractive is a $2.8 billion U.S. industry and includes LASIK, the world's most widely performed 'elective' procedure. Cataract is a $5.6 billion U.S. industry and is the world's most widely performed 'non-elective' procedure. And, by year-end 2005, 70 percent of adult Americans - 155.7 million people - were wearing some form of vision correction. At TLCVision, we see growth opportunities across the eye care industry. With over 13,700 doctor relationships, the Company positioned to take advantage of this industry growth.

Millinocket Regional Hospital provides medical services to the residents of Millinocket, Maine and its surrounding areas. The hospital has 25 critical access beds and offers specialized services such as orthopedics, surgery, pediatrics, emergency medicine, cancer care, and cardiac rehabilitation. It also provides a long term care unit, as well as an occupational wellness center. Millinocket Regional Hospital is a founding member of the Maine Health Alliance and employs a medical staff including nearly 20 physicians.

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