SpaceLabs Forms Patient Monitoring Firm

A new consolidated patient-monitoring company, Spacelabs Healthcare (Issaquah, WA, USA), has been formed by combining Spacelabs Medical, a subsidiary of OSI Systems (Hawthorne, CA, USA), and two of OSI's businesses: Blease Medical Equipment (Chesham, UK) and Dolphin Medical (Hawthorne, CA, USA).

The new firm has several divisions, based on the products of the firms involved. All the firms will continue to operate under their own names. Dolphin Medical is a global leader in patient monitoring, whose products include the UltraviewSL family of patient monitors, digital telemetry systems, and connectivity solutions, such as Intesys Clinical Suite (ICS), Flexport interfaces, and WinDNA, designed to make real-time patient information quickly and easily available to clinicians. Blease, an international provider of anesthesia delivery systems, also offers ventilation systems, including the Focus and Sirius families of products, and supplies original equipment manufacture (OEM) products and components to the anesthesia industry.

The new Medical Solutions division includes Dolphin Medical's pulse oximetry, Spacelabs' Medical Data, recognized as a leader in ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) studies, and the Osteometer MediTech of OSI. The latter develops and manufactures bone densitometers, a potential growth area for the company as the global population ages. The new division also provides strong support for cardiac monitoring and research.

Additionally, Spacelabs Medical Data will continue to provide electrocardiogram (ECG) laboratory services to pharmaceutical companies undertaking clinical trials, whereby patient ECG data are recorded, analyzed, tabulated, and interpreted

According to Joe Davin, president of global sales and marketing for Spacelabs Healthcare, there are a number of benefits resulting from the formation of the new company. "Customers are the real winners in this consolidation. By strengthening the linkages among our healthcare businesses, we will give our customers a broader range of products and solutions coordinated across care areas, particularly in perioperative and critical care.”





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