Sensitron Completes Successful Trial at Singapore’s Changi Hospital—First careTrends™ Use in Asia Pa

December 12, 2005 (Press Release) -- SAN MATEO, Calif. – 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, GM of Sensitron Asia Pacific. 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 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.
About Sensitron, Inc. (www.sensitron.net)
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.