Alere

Alere Inc., formerly Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., provides diagnostics and health management solutions. The Company's products and services are focused on infectious disease, cardiology, oncology, drugs of abuse and women's health. Its brands range from over-the-counter tests to lab-based diagnostics to integrated home monitoring solutions. The Company's brands include Acceava Mono cassette, Alere Home Monitoring, AtheNA Multi-Lyte Test System, BinaxNOW, Cholestech LDX, Clearview iFOB Complete, Determine HBsAg, DoubleCheckGold and ImmunoComb. The Company has operations in North America, Europe and Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America and Africa.

Cindy Horton

Vice President, GM Alere Toxiology Core

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Epocal

Acquisition in 2013
Epocal develops and provides a point of care blood diagnostic systems for healthcare enterprises. The company has produced epoc, a wireless bedside blood testing solution that provides lab results directly to a hand-held mobile computer. Epocal offers its products for hospitals, physicians’ offices, and patients’ homes. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

eScreen

Acquisition in 2012
eScreen, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets employment screening products. The company offers products and software that automate and accelerate the hiring process for the employer, the donor, and the clinic. Its products include eScreen, an instrumented point-of-collection testing device for drug testing; eScreen123, an instrumented point-of-collection drug testing software for occupational health providers; MyeScreen.com, an online program management and result reporting for end users and company human resource management; MRO Software, a verification management software for medical review officers; eScreen eCup, a self contained testing device that does not require pouring, transferring, or pipetting of the specimen; eScreen eReader, an instrumented point-of-collection testing device for paperless Web-based collections; and mCup and mCheck, which are manually read devices. The company also offers Web-based services with real-time drug test data. eScreen, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas.

RMD Networks

Acquisition in 2010
RMD Networks is a provider of appointment scheduling services between the doctor and the patient.

Free & Clear

Acquisition in 2009
Free & Clear, Inc. provides phone-based tobacco treatment for employers, health plans, and government agencies. The company offers tobacco cessation program to employees and members of private employers, tobacco quit line services, and clinically proven method to stop smoking and using smokeless tobacco.

Redwood Toxicology Laboratory

Acquisition in 2007
Redwood Toxicology Laboratories provides extensive drug and alcohol monitoring as well as laboratory facilities at a low cost.

Quality Assured Services

Acquisition in 2007
Quality Assured Services is a privately held provider of diagnostic home tests and services.

Cholestech

Acquisition in 2007
Cholestech develops point-of-care diagnostics solutions for chronic diseases. Cholestech is famous for its flagship product Cholestech LDX (R) measures cholesterol, glucose, liver enzymes, and C-reactive Protein to identify high-risk heart disease patients. It was founded in 1988 and is based in San Diego, California. In June 2007, Alere (then known as Inverness Medical) acquired the company for $326.3M.

CLONDIAG chip technologies

Acquisition in 2006
CLONDIAG chip technologies is a company which has developed a multiplexing technology for nucleic acid and immunoassay based diagnostics.

Ischemia Technologies

Acquisition in 2005
Ischemia Technologies is a Denver-based provider of diagnostic tests for cardiovascular and acute care medicines.
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