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Thursday, December 9, 1999
Spacelabs Announces Plans to Enter Wireless Clinical Messaging Market
REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999--Spacelabs Medical, Inc.
(Nasdaq:SLMD) announced today that it plans to enter the wireless clinical
messaging market and that it has a pending FDA 510(k) clearance application for
the new Ultraview Clinical Messenger(TM), a multiparameter waveform pager
system.
The Ultraview Clinical Messenger is designed to work in conjunction with the
Ultraview Care Network(TM) by providing supplementary alarm notification to the
mobile caregiver and automatically displaying desired waveforms and associated
vital signs for any monitored parameter.
Product Development Vice President Roy Hays stated, "We are very excited
about the Ultraview Clinical Messenger, which will help caregivers stay in
contact with their patients while moving around the unit. Our customers have
expressed the need for this flexibility to help them respond to the increasing
demands placed on caregivers." He also noted, "With the power of the Ultraview
Care Network's open-standards design, we are able to rapidly develop and seek
regulatory clearance for innovative products such as this in a relatively short
period of time."
Upon 510(k) clearance this product will represent Spacelabs' entree into the
virtually untapped wireless clinical messaging market. The Ultraview Clinical
Messenger is designed to compete with other waveform paging systems such as
those from Data Critical Corporation (Nasdaq:DCCA).
The new Ultraview Clinical Messenger uses easy-to-acquire, off-the-shelf
paging hardware with a relatively favorable cost of ownership. It also includes
an easy-to-use management tool, which is intended to allow clinicians to assign
patients and pagers to caregivers. This Windows-based management tool may be
accessed via a standard PC workstation, or directly on a Spacelabs Ultraview
1700 or Universal Clinical Workstation (UCW(R)) bedside or central monitor
equipped with the space-saving WinDNA(R) feature.
The Ultraview Clinical Messenger represents the latest innovation in
Spacelabs' line of wireless medical products, which originated when the company
helped design the first systems to monitor astronauts in space.
Spacelabs is a leading provider of integrated healthcare information systems
and medical instrumentation. Until 510(k) clearance is obtained, the Company is
not commercially distributing or accepting orders for the Ultraview Clinical
Messenger.
Statements made in this press release that are not based on historical facts
are forward-looking statements subject to uncertainty and risk. Those risks
include the possible failure to achieve product development objectives,
uncertain product demand and acceptance, uncertain market size, the possible
proliferation of unanticipated competition, delays or failures to obtain
regulatory clearances, and other risks detailed in the Company's securities
filings.
Ultraview Clinical Messenger, Ultraview Care Network, UCW and WinDNA are
trademarks of Spacelabs Medical, Inc. (c) Spacelabs Medical, Inc. 1999
CONTACT: Spacelabs Medical, Inc. Clark Thompson, 425/867-
7345 spacelabs.com http://
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COMPANY (TICKER): SLMD (SLMD)
NEWS SUBJECT: Business Wire; Press Release Wires; Internet (BW PREL NET)
MARKET SECTOR: Consumer Non-Cyclical; Newswire End Code (NCY NND)
INDUSTRY: Advanced Technology Medical Devices; Medical Supplies (MDV
MDS)
PRODUCT: Health Care (DHC)
REGION: North America; Pacific Rim; United States; Washington
(State); Western U.S. (NME PRM US WA USW)
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