Transcend Services helps make sense of doctors' gibberish. The medical transcription company uses Internet-based technology to turn doctors' audio patient records into written text. Its home-based medical transcriptionists convert the physicians' recorded notes (made using either Transcend Services' proprietary BeyondTXT technology or the clients' own systems) into text documents. The company is increasingly using speech recognition software to automatically convert voice to text, after which the documents are edited by transcriptionists. Transcend Services counts some 250 hospitals, clinics, and physician group practices among its customers.

NCH Healthcare System provides a comprehensive range of health care services to residents of Collier County and the surrounding area of southwest Florida. The system includes two acute care hospitals (NCH Downtown Naples Hospital and NCH North Naples Hospital) with a combined 680-bed capacity and regional institutes which specialize in orthopedics and the treatment of cancer, heart ailments, and women's and children's health issues. NCH includes an area network of more than 500 primary care and specialist physicians, as well as numerous outpatient and ambulatory care facilities that provide services ranging from diagnostics to rehabilitative care to surgery and emergency care.

NMT Medical company develops implantable devices that treat defects in the walls of the heart's chambers. Its CardioSEAL and STARFlex implants close up holes in the heart, a condition suffered primarily by children.NMT Medical company markets CardioSEAL and STARFlex in the US, Canada, and Europe. A third device, BioSTAR, is a bioabsorbable implant that also corrects heart defects; it has been approved in Canada and Europe. NMT Medical acquired the exclusive rights to CardioSEAL from InnerVentions, a licensee of Children's Hospital Boston.

Vision-Sciences, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets products for endoscopy. The company operates through two segments, Medical and Industrial. The Medical segment designs, manufactures, and sells a line of endoscopy-based products, including flexible endoscopes and sheath or EndoSheath disposables primarily to the ENT, urology, gastroenterology, and pulmonology markets. The Industrial segment designs, manufactures, and markets flexible borescopes under the Machida brand name. This segment offers various products, such as modulars, slim levers, knobs, battery operated portable flexible borescopes, industrial videoscopes, and portable video processors primarily to the aircraft engine manufacturing and aircraft engine maintenance industries. The company offers its products to the ENT doctors, urologists, gastroenterologists, primary care physicians, pulmonologists and other airway management doctors in hospitals, medical clinics, and physicians’ private offices. It provides its products through sales representatives in the United States; and through independent distributors in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, and Central and South America. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Orangeburg, New York.

University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics is Part of the University of Utah Health Care system, the medical services provider operates an acute and critical care hospital that has some 550 beds, as well as a network of community clinics that provide primary health care, pharmacy, and eye care, among other services. The University Hospital provides care in areas including surgery, emergency care, cardiology, radiology, and organ transplant services; it also houses centers for medical education, training, and research.

Burton makes medical equipment. Located southeast of London, Burtons manufactures, distributes, services, and repairs a wide range of products for medical and veterinary healthcare providers. Medical professionals can find autoclaves on offer, as well as ultrasonic baths for cleaning instruments. Burtons' veterinary product catalogue is more extensive, including equipment for anesthesia and sterilization, patient monitors, kennels and surgery tables, scales, and more.

American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW) preaches the gospel of the active senior lifestyle, operating about 30 senior living facilities in four western states. Most of ABHOW's communities are government-subsidized apartments for low-income seniors. About a dozen of its residences, however, are continuing care retirement communities, which offer a range of care -- residential living, assisted living, or skilled nursing -- depending on residents' needs. The communities also schedule social activities and offer wellness programs and transportation services. Parent company Cornerstone Affiliates acquires and develops communities.

Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center makes medical care its primary mission. The hospital, part of Trinity Health, provides Boise, Idaho, and the surrounding region with general, acute, and specialized health care services. The medical center has some 390 beds and includes a trauma center, an orthopedic spinal care unit, an air transport service, and a home health and hospice division. It also provides general practice and specialty health services through the Saint Alphonsus Medical Group physician practice organization and through outpatient care clinics. The Sisters of the Holy Cross founded the hospital in 1894.

Tornier B.V. makes the kind of implants that you head to the orthopedic surgeon for, not the plastic surgeon. The company manufactures joint prostheses for the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle, and foot. Its Aequalis shoulder joint is a top prosthetic for arthroplasty -- more than 100,000 people have it. Tornier's orthobiologics division makes a reconstructive material for soft tissue (tendons, ligaments, and cartilage) repair, branded as Conexa. Altogether, Tornier offers more than 70 products for joint replacement, trauma, and sports medicine, which are sold in about 35 countries. The company was bought by Warburg Pincus in 2006 and filed to go public with a $205 million IPO in mid-2010.

Established in 1996 in Seattle, WA, by healthcare professionals who observed the damaging effects of excess weight in their patient population, Sound Health Solutions is dedicated to reducing health risks and to improving the global health of individuals through sustainable weight loss. After adding a second clinic in 2004, the company continued to grow, introducing its nationwide Sound Health CONNECT™ program in 2005 and expanding into the pre- and post-surgery market that same year. We are proud to be offering a professional, cost-saving solution to the growing epidemic of obesity.

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