A Diagnostics & Imaging Week
Solomon Technologies, (Danbury, Connecticut) reported that Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) has awarded its new Deltron (Bethel, Connecticut) subsidiary a contract to provide power supplies for X-ray systems.
Jack Worthen, president of the Solomon’s Power Electronics Division, said, “Deltron’s deep product and technical portfolio has added many market expansion opportunities for Solomon which has translated into substantial core growth for the overall enterprise. High reliability power conversion and power management systems are critical in today’s industrial, military, and alternative energy applications.”
The company also reported that its Power Electronics Division has been awarded a contract to develop a prototype high-energy power supply system, valued at about $250,000, to be used in next generation medical diagnostic and treatment equipment.
Solomon says that its proprietary Cobalt 15 product technology offers a “combination of high reliability, flexible design and cost competitiveness. Once the prototype is approved for production, Solomon’s Technipower subsidiary expects to provide regular deliveries to the customer’s schedule.
“This new development project is another example of how Solomon’s core technology is adaptable to so many cutting edge applications, in this case supporting quality-of-life issues in the medical arena,” Worthen said.
In other contract news:
• AT&T (Warren, New Jersey) reported an extended networking services contract with Welch Allyn (Skaneateles Falls, New York).
Under the terms of a three-year $5.1 million renewed agreement, AT&T will provide OneNet Voice Services and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services at 12 global locations, including remote access and a network-based firewall over AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based network.
With AT&T’s VPN services, Welch Allyn will have a managed data-services solution over a common architecture, which can be accessed remotely for sharing of applications hosted at Welch Allyn global locations. AT&T’s MPLS connect all of the Welch Allyn’s global locations.
AT&T will also provide Welch Allyn with AT&T OneNet Voice Service, which provides a solution for large multinational enterprises that have a need for multiple communications technologies.
Welch Allyn is a developer of medical diagnostic equipment and digital and connected solutions.
• AcroMetrix (Benicia, California), a global leader in quality control materials for molecular and serological diagnostics, reported that it will extend its contract with Group Services for America’s Blood Centers (GSABC; Washington) through Dec. 31, 2009. Following the previous agreement from 2005, GSABC will continue to recommend and promote AcroMetrix as a recommended provider of quality control materials for GSABC’s 77 members across the U.S. and Canada.
“Because of the important nature of the infectious disease testing conducted by members of America’s Blood Centers (ABC), all tests must be carefully monitored to ensure accurate performance,” said GSABC director of contracting Susan Claffey. “The innovative quality control products provided by AcroMetrix serve this critical need and assure the accuracy and reliability of blood screening.”
AcroMetrix currently provides many GSABC members with quality control products for molecular testing of HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and West Nile Virus, as well as serology controls for all commonly screened analytes, including Chagas. These products provide a means by which to estimate accuracy and detect systematic errors in qualitative assays.
The contract includes all products for infectious disease testing performed at member community blood centers of GSABC, including EDCNet, AcroMetrix’s online data management system. AcroMetrix will be working with all GSABC member labs to help subsidize their transition to AcroMetrix products.