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Welch Allyn, a leading manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions including vital signs monitors and spot check devices, announced today that it had formed a new partnership with Sensitron Inc., a leader in medical device connectivity and data management, and its exclusive distributors in Europe, U.K. and the Middle East. This agreement will provide a solution for ensuring that key vital signs data are captured with Sensitron's careTrends® and automatically sent to a dedicated server and an electronic medical record (EMR) when available. This solution helps to reduce transcription errors as well as time lag between the capture and posting of data.
This partnership will help clinicians meet their qualitative and quantitative objectives-giving them the right information at the right time. Together, Welch Allyn and Sensitron will provide nurses and clinicians with technology that will help them deliver an enhanced standard of clinical care, as well as both time and budget savings. Welch Allyn's extensive range of traditional vital signs monitors and spot checking devices can either be wirelessly enabled or hard-wired by Sensitron's careTrends®.
"We believe that our partnership with Sensitron will provide the best of both worlds, data capture and data management, offering significant benefit to the patients, nurses and clinicians," said Pascal Gand, product development director at Welch Allyn. "This is particularly exciting in this vital signs domain, where very few connected solutions exist today."
"We are very pleased by this agreement," said Garry Stephen, cofounder and CEO of Sensitron Europe. "It will provide users of Welch Allyn vital signs monitors with immediate and reliable data for quicker and better-informed medical decisions, while allowing medical staff to dedicate more time to their patients."
About Sensitron, Inc. (http://www.sensitron.net)
Sensitron, Inc., based in San Mateo, Calif., is an international wireless healthcare innovations company that has developed careTrends® for med-surg units and Critical careTrends™ for critical/intensive care units-both of which communicate vital signs and other data from wirelessly-enabled, legacy point-of-care medical devices at the patient bedside. Sensitron, Inc. was founded in 1997, is a privately-held company and is expanding internationally via channel partners.
careTrends is a registered trademark and Critical careTrends is a trademark of Sensitron, Inc.
About Welch Allyn
Founded in 1915 and headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, New York (USA), Welch Allyn is a leading global manufacturer of medical diagnostic equipment and a complete range of digital and connected solutions. With over 2,300 employees working in 17 different countries, Welch Allyn specializes in helping doctors, nurses, and other frontline practitioners across the globe provide the best patient care by developing innovative products, breakthrough technologies, and cutting-edge solutions that help them see more patients, detect more conditions, and improve more lives. More information about Welch Allyn and its complete line of connected products and solutions may be found at www.welchallyn.com.
