Frustration could not even begin to describe the look on my mother’s face during a recent trip to a local lab here in Atlanta to get some diagnostic tests run. The lab had lost all their electronic records, along with my mother’s, and they could not run a check of her blood in a timely fashion. This was a procedure they had no problem completing in 20 minutes, just three weeks prior. Apparently, it was some type of system outage and the lab was unable to recover all the data. They would gladly take her information again, but there were...

Atrium Medical (Hudson, New Hampshire) said that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by the Getinge Group (Stockholm, Sweden) and its subsidiary, Maquet Cardiovascular (Wayne, New Jersey), a provider of cardiovascular technologies for $680 million. (Medical Device Daily)