OSI Systems Inc., a provider of specialized electronic products for applications in the security and healthcare industries, announced today that a Texas hospital has chosen its healthcare division, Spacelabs Healthcare, for an approximately $4-million contract to provide its solutions to the hospital’s new telemetry, intensive care and emergency departments.
OSI announced earlier this month that Spacelabs Healthcare was selected by an Illinois-based hospital to provide patient monitoring, telemetry monitoring, ICS clinical access applications and integration solutions. The contract was for approximately $3 million.
"We are excited that this hospital chose Spacelabs for its renowned ICS G2 application suite and new XPREZZON patient monitors,” said Deepak Chopra, OSI Systems CEO. “We look forward to the implementation."
What Spacelabs brings to the party is a line of patient monitors that can help doctors remotely make decisions based on information on patients’ blood pressure, heart rhythm, glucose levels, all collected at their bedsides, then transmitted to physicians wherever they are on smartphones and tablets.
The division, started in 1958 as a way to monitor astronauts’ vital signs wirelessly in space, also provides products for diagnostic cardiology, ambulatory blood pressure and ECG monitoring and ECG data management.
Telemetry, part of telemedicine, has revolutionized the way medicine is practiced.
No longer do patients have to wait for hours in doctors’ offices to be seen; many can be monitored right from home, and don’t even have to be admitted to hospitals – saving costs and inconvenience for everyone.
The Wall Street Journal calls telemedicine “the $7-billion tech trend changing the face of healthcare.”
Doctors like it, too. But is it as good as a doctor standing right there, at your bedside? In your own country?
Think about this: Would you ever let a doctor half a world away treat you for a life-threatening condition? According to Ken Alltucker of The Arizona Republic, as posted at USA Today, a patient suffering from a life-threatening diabetic reaction, cared for by a cardiologist in Israel via telemetry, left the ICU within 48 hours and returned home several days later.
Edited by
Braden Becker
