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Recipient: Susan Scamurra, Buffalo Technology Transfer Center at Sisters Hospital
Founded: 1997
What's going on: The BTTC is a department of Sisters Hospital, which is now part of the Catholic Health System. It was started as a nonprofit biomedical research unit focusing on clinical testing and evaluation of healthcare instruments and devices. In 2001 the BTTC narrowed its focus on the increasingly important role of technology in healthcare. It was particularly aware of the growing demands for securing personal, patient information mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. More patient information is centralized in healthcare databases and the optimal way of organizing and "locking" the information is dependent on uniquely indentifying...