Ohmeda Medical division of Datex-Ohmeda, Inc.
A respected presence in the medical industry for over 50 years, Ohmeda Medical is a world leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of critical care and infant care products and services including non-invasive patient monitors, pulse oximetry and suction and oxygen therapy systems, and neonatal intensive care products such as the Care Plus® family of incubators, the BiliBlanket Plus® phototherapy system and the Ohmeda Medical Ohio® family of infant warmer systems.
With administrative headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Columbia, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., Ohmeda currently serves customers from over 100 countries in Europe, North America, Japan, the Pacific Rim and Latin America and is a subsidiary of publicly owned Finnish Instrumentarium Corporation.
Well known as an innovator of highest quality infant care products and responsible for many of the century's major advances in neonatal thermoregulation including the world's first microprocessor controlled incubator, Ohmeda Medical equipment and devices are used in operating rooms, post-anesthesia care units, emergency departments, and intensive, neonatal and cardiac care units throughout the world.
In addition to a seasoned institutional Infant Care product sales and training force, Ohmeda operates the Alternate Care Group, a Louisville, CO-based homecare sales and distribution system with a field sales force of 75 exclusively focused on the homecare market. In March, 1998, Ohmeda entered into a two year sole source supplier agreement to provide pulse oximeters and infant phototherapy devices to Apria Healthcare Group Inc., one of the nation's largest home health care companies.
Ohmeda sales operations are strongly supported by the Ohmeda Medical Service Organization, one of the largest in the US medical industry. Ohmeda's Technical Support Center provides customers with rapid solutions and help on topics ranging from problem diagnosis and maintenance procedures to part identification and system applications.
Ohmeda's parent, Instrumentarium is a global operation with a prestigious 98-year history in health care and medical technology with over 5000 employeees and consolidated 1998 net sales of more than US $700 million. It's shares are listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and American Depository Receipts on the NASDAQ National Market System (Symbol: INMRY).
Intent on applying it's long-established presence and expertise in the global medical community as a platform to further develop it's existing businesses and expand into selected new product areas and markets, Instrumentarium presently operates through three main business segments:
-Anesthesia and Critical Care Equipment,
-Medical Equipment and Supplies, and
-Optical Retail
The company's current largest division Datex-Ohmeda specializes in products and services designed to facilitate better and more efficient patient care and management and is the world's largest supplier of anesthesia monitors.
Other Instrumentarium units specialize in niche healthcare markets or distribution of healthcare products. They include:
Imaging: manufactures and markets diagnostic imaging equipment for dental, mammography and surgical imaging.
Merivaara: manufactures and markets medical furniture such as hospital beds and operating tables
Instrumed: distributes medical and laboratory equipment and supplies in Finland.
Medko Medical: special project sales, and LM-Dental: manufactures and
markets dental hand instruments and accessories.
URLs for greater detail:
instrumentarium.com
ohmedamedical.com
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ohmedamedical.com
datex-ohmeda.com
us.datex-ohmeda.com
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