Sensitron Completes Successful Trial at Singapore's Changi Hospital— First careTrends Use in Asia Pacific

    /24-7PressRelease/ - SAN MATEO, CA, December 12, 2005 - December 12, 2005 Sensitron Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. completed its first trial of the careTrends system at Changi General Hospital in Singapore for 30 beds. "This marketplace is very excited to have access to a system like this. We initially planned for a demonstration in one hospital room at Changi General Hospital, but subsequently expanded it to cover the entire ward and the nursing staff liked careTrends so much, that we turned it into our first trial for Asia Pacific," said Vijay Kumar, General Manager of Sensitron Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. Sensitron's careTrends allows the collection of accurate clinical data and its dissemination into clinical information systems.

Sensitron, Inc., a market leader in international wireless healthcare innovations, also launched its Asia Pacific operations through Sensitron Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., for its careTrends Wireless Bridge system in Singapore. Sensitron Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., now offers its services throughout the Asia Pacific marketplace—and provides local management, sales and support to healthcare customers in the Asia Pacific region—with a management team that has over 40 years of experience. Sensitron Asia Pacific will be responsible for implementing the careTrends wireless patient monitoring solution in 15 Asia Pacific countries, namely Singapore, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei.

"Sensitron Asia Pacific provides direct local knowledge of the healthcare infrastructure and marketplace, and its needs in Asia," said Rajiv Jaluria, CEO of Sensitron, Inc. "Sensitron, Inc. is delighted to have Sensitron Asia Pacific and its experienced management team leading our efforts in the Asia Pacific region, and extending the improved standard of patient care and data accuracy throughout the Asia Pacific healthcare communities with our device-agnostic wireless system."
"I believe Sensitron will revolutionize the healthcare industry in the Asia Pacific region as it introduces the convenience and efficiency in nurses' workflows like what cell phones do to our lives. It will raise patient care and service levels to new heights by doing away with tedious clerical work for nurses and improving their overall work experience—thereby giving them more time to take better care of their patients. Older hospitals are looking for new ways technology can make them more efficient, while new hospitals are aggressively adopting digital healthcare technologies to improve the quality of patient care and services. With the large number of old and new hospitals that are focusing on the quality of patient care and services, combined with Sensitron's cutting-edge, open platform technology, it is indeed a very exciting time for Sensitron in the Asia Pacific region," said Andrew Yap, CEO of Sensitron Asia Pacific.

The Efficient and Practical Software
Sensitron's careTrends enables a wide array of vital signs and other clinical data to be transmitted wirelessly, via secure encryption, to any existing server-based electronic patient record. Sensitron's patented system works with monitors from different manufacturers, including legacy systems, and is an integrated open system—which sits well with the home healthcare, nursing home and assisted living facility markets, in addition to hospitals. With Sensitron's careTrends system, potential errors in data transmission are reduced by dating and timing all data—which creates an effective audit trail. The system directly links point-of-care medical devices with clinical information systems, thus reducing staff time and clinical risk, and allowing medical staff to maintain a higher standard of clinical care.

The careTrends system also addresses healthcare providers' needs, including immediate access to information and reduction in paperwork. Patients' data and trends can be presented intra-hospital, inter-hospital, at a clinician's office, or via any web-based PDA or telephone.

Sensitron, Inc., based in San Mateo, Calif., is an international wireless healthcare innovations company that has developed the careTrends Wireless Bridge system. The patented breakthrough system minimizes transcription errors and eliminates lag time between the reading, capture, documentation and dissemination of clinical data. This is accomplished by communicating vital signs and other data from wirelessly-enabled, legacy point-of-care medical devices at the bedside. Sensitron was founded in 1997, is a privately-held company and is expanding internationally via channel partners.

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