Expanded Agreement Between Companies to Combine AlarmView(TM) Monitoring With
Puritan-Bennett(R) Ventilators
ST. LOUIS, Mo., and BOTHELL, Wash., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Critical
Corporation (Nasdaq: DCCA), a leader in wireless health care communication,
and Mallinckrodt Inc. (NYSE: MKG), industry leader in respiratory care
products, today announced the two companies are entering into a distribution
agreement for Mallinckrodt's Nellcor Puritan Bennett ventilator division.
Under the new three-year distribution agreement, Data Critical will develop an
interface to allow its AlarmView(TM) wireless data network system to be used
with Puritan-Bennett(R) ventilators. Mallinckrodt will distribute the product
to their new and existing ventilator customers.
Data Critical's existing five-year distribution agreement with the Nellcor
Oximetry Business of Mallinckrodt Inc. was announced in February 1999. Under
terms of that agreement, Nellcor agreed to distribute the AlarmView system
with its market-leading pulse oximetry and multi-parameter monitoring devices.
Today's agreement further solidifies the marketing relationship between the
two companies.
The new agreement significantly expands the market for AlarmView through
Mallinckrodt's extensive U.S. and European business, and enables Mallinckrodt
to offer a cost-effective wireless notification system across its range of
respiratory and patient monitoring products.
"We are very pleased to broaden our relationship with Mallinckrodt by
extending wireless connectivity to their line of ventilators," says Jeffrey S.
Brown, president and CEO of Data Critical Corporation. "This international
agreement represents a tremendous marketing opportunity for AlarmView, the
first wireless system of its kind in the growing ventilator segment of the
healthcare industry."
"Wireless connectivity to mechanical ventilators is becoming increasingly
important to our customers," says Michael Terner, vice president/general
manager of Mallinckrodt's Ventilator Group. "Data Critical's AlarmView
solution will allow busy hospital-based caregivers to remain informed of their
patient's respiratory and ventilator status. This is the first time a
ventilator has been able to wirelessly communicate with clinicians to assist
them with organizing data and allowing for better utilization of valuable
clinician time."
AlarmView is the first portable alarm notification device that allows
wireless connectivity to stand-alone hospital-based patient monitors and
devices, providing timely transmission of critical patient information to
appropriate nursing staff and other health care providers via pagers. When
triggered by an alarm condition, the pager displays the pertinent information
such as bed number, patient name, alarm message and vital signs, delivered
within seconds to nurses within the department.
In addition to the agreements with Mallinckrodt for oximetry and
ventilators, Data Critical also has contracts to interface AlarmView in the
near future with patient monitoring devices from Cardiac Science, CRITIKON,
Medtronic Physio-Control and Protocol Systems.
About Mallinckrodt/Nellcor Puritan Bennett
Mallinckrodt Inc. is a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty
medical products designed to sustain breathing, diagnose disease and relieve
pain. Named one of America's most admired medical products and equipment
companies by Fortune magazine, Mallinckrodt does business in more than
100 countries. In fiscal 2000, combined net sales were $2.7 billion for
Mallinckrodt's respiratory, imaging and pharmaceutical product lines.
Mallinckrodt's Nellcor oximetry business is the world leader in pulse oximetry
with over 80 OEM & Licensing partners, 16 sensor choices, over 50 corporate
account and IHN purchasing contracts, and four generations of pulse oximetry
technology. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Mallinckrodt's website address is
http://www.mallinckrodt.com .
About Data Critical Corporation
Data Critical Corporation develops and distributes wireless and Internet
systems for communicating critical health care data. The company offers
StatView(TM), AlarmView(TM) and FlexView(TM), a line of wireless alarm
notification products for hospitals. It also provides MobileView(TM) and
ECGStat(TM), a line of wireless products for physicians, as well as
WebChart(TM) and PocketChart(TM) online and wireless patient charting tools.
Data Critical will soon offer unwiredDr wireless Web services for physicians
to allow physicians to chart online, prescribe medications, dictate notes,
check lab results and more, leveraging the power of the wireless Internet. In
September, Data Critical acquired Paceart, the leader in PC-based software for
managing the care of cardiac patients with implanted devices. The company has
more than twenty partnerships with such industry leaders as Aether Systems,
Agilent Technologies, Boston Scientific, CRITIKON, drugstore.com, GE
Marquette, Medtronic Physio-Control and Siemens Medical Systems. Additional
information about Data Critical is available at http://www.datacritical.com .
Except for the historical information presented, the matters discussed in
this press release include forward-looking statements that are subject to
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by
such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include those described in Data
Critical's periodic filings with the SEC including its 10K, 10Q and
registration statement on Form S-1 that was declared effective on November 8,
1999. Copies of Data Critical's public disclosure filings with the SEC are
available from its investor relations department.
SOURCE Mallinckrodt Inc.
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