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Posted by: ITNovaScotia Admin	Monday, August 28, 2006
By MICHAEL TUTTON The Canadian Press A rush of $4 million in financing is proof for Medusa Medical Technologies that venture capital investors believe in the power of health technology to transform medicine. Over the past six years, the Halifax firm created software to help paramedics gather data and transmit it on a wireless system as they treat their patients. Medusa sets up paramedics with a tablet — a rugged, laptop-like computer — and the ambulance workers use touch-screen technology to punch in each step they take to keep patients alive. "With the tablet they can record on the fly, as they go," says chief executive Scott Campbell, describing the technology. "Click, click, in goes a record of administering morphine. Click, click, in goes your adrenaline. Click, click, there’s your splint."... See the full story at The ChronicleHerald.ca Additional Link: http://www.techfinance.ca/m-topnews+news+tnid-1072-tnd-20060828.html

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Re: Medusa Medical draws an angel	By Tom R. on Tuesday, August 29, 2006
these guys have been around for years, interesting that they're getting money for "early-stage firms". still, probably less risky than some company that's just a po box and a business plan.

Re: Medusa Medical draws an angel	By p.b. on Tuesday, August 29, 2006
It seems as if these guys are in a perpetual state of either just making it big or going broke, turning up every so often with a new press release but never becoming fully viable. They always seem to be trying to staff the same positions every few months as well...