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For Immediate Release
May 25, 2006
Electric Book Company receives $100,000 NIH grant
Richmond, Va. – The Virginia BioTechnology Research Park recently announced that tenant company, The Electric Book Company, has been award a $100,000 Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop technologies that will streamline the flow of biomedical device data into electronic messaging services.
“We are grateful and excited to be named a recipient of an award to develop the next-generation technology for businesses engaged in biomedical device development, clinical trial execution and regulatory compliance management,” commented Kenneth Feldt, president of The Electric Book Company.
The award marks the launch of the company’s re-branding strategy, which aims their integrated data management and messaging technologies to serve the biomedical device industry. The company’s services revolve around a family of technologies known as the Trivium® Collaborative Framework, a set of technologies that combine electronic forum communications with document display and data acquisition tools. The services are offered under the company’s new trade name, Cholabris Workgroup Solutions.
The Phase I award will be used to demonstrate feasibility of an online messaging service that includes complex imagery and data representations such as those generated by electrocardiographs, flow cytometry and custom hardware devices used in medical applications. The demonstration will involve Internet-based communications among members of widely dispersed teams engaged in clinical trials, telemedicine and customer support activities.
“In the field of clinical trials alone, industry spends more than $100 million dollars just moving data around different sites,” commented Feldt. “With advanced devices becoming more complex and development and testing teams becoming more geographically dispersed, the cost of using legacy messaging and data management technologies is no longer acceptable.”
The SBIR grant, while focusing on a limited set of device integration activities for the short term, has the strategic goal of leveraging evolving Internet standards to support collaborative exchange of any device adhering to specifications under consideration by such groups as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the international OpenECG organization.
Contact:
Nicky Colomb
Virginia BioTechnology Research Park
Phone: (804) 828-6884
E-mail: ncolomb@vabiotech.com
Web site: www.vabiotech.com
Kenneth Feldt
The Electric Book Company
Phone: (804) 343-0757
Web site: www.electricbook.net
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