A medical vest that can predict heart attack or stroke? Ear buds that measure your cardiovascular signals? It's not science fiction, it's just part of the new technologies that are in use at this facility from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School that opened its doors Sept. 14.

The children's health provider has Garden State locations in Berkeley Heights and West Windsor, and now in Eatontown.

As part of the moves, the Moorestown-based medical tech company's co-founders will retire and step down as members of the board, effective immediately.

“With our strong cash flow and lowest level of net debt in five years, we have the ability to invest in innovation, grow our dividend, execute strategic acquisitions, and take this action to deliver shareholder returns and drive long-term growth,” CEO Joaquin Duato said.

The combined companies will serve more than 500 health systems and medical groups, offering data management, provider search, scheduling, pre-visit intake and payment collection services.

"This is a valuable opportunity to help a large, underserved group in our community, specifically in the healthcare field, a field more necessary than ever," school President Margaret McMenamin said.

Ridgewood-based Valley Health System is joining the collaborative, which provides medical benefits to nearly 75,000 employees and families in the state.

The event marked the first in-person biomanufacturing conference from the organization in two years. "[W]e want to make sure that we’re supporting New Jersey’s life sciences ecosystem and make sure that it is a place where innovation is happening unencumbered and then patients can access that innovation," said President and CEO Debbie Hart.

The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity awarded the funds for the Princeton-based company to further develop its HemoDefend-BGA adsorber, which, in short, can create a substance that could be administered to anyone, regardless of blood type.

The Ewing Township company said it discovered suspicious activity in May and immediately took action to secure its systems in addition to launching an investigation. Although there was no evidence that information was accessed, the firm issued a notice “out of an abundance of caution.”

DeAnna Minus-Vincent, executive vice president, chief social justice and accountability officer at RWJBarnabas Health, and Jill Johnson, co-founder and CEO of the Newark-based Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership, are being recognized for their efforts to make the Garden State a more equitable place to live and work.  

According to the Secaucus-based company, it is the first EUA granted to a commercially available diagnostic tool for the virus in the U.S.