The company’s technology, called MedICAN, successfully integrates biomedical engineering with information technology to eliminate the patient information island. The MedICAN technology provides hospitals with a number of benefits:

• Reduced healthcare costs by providing easier access to patient data
• Improved decision making by providing access to more detailed patient data
• Improved healthcare quality control and accountability by monitoring all bedside activities
• Automatic tracking and monitoring of bedside medical instruments

MedICAN is the only solution in the marketplace with all of the following critical features.

• Instruments are plug and play – easily moved from bed to bed (automatic configuration)
• Data is always uniquely associated with the correct patient
• No bedside PC required – small footprint, low cost per bed
• Instruments are individually identifiable and easily located
• Vendor independent – works with instruments from all manufacturers
• Collects analog as well as digital data
• An interface for integrating with clinical information systems

MedICAN markets its technology by partnering with clinical information system vendors and hospital information system integrators.