IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 9, 2018--
Masimo (NASDAQ:
MASI) announced today the worldwide release of the Vital Signs Check
Application, an integrated patient data collection and workflow
application for the Masimo Root® patient monitoring and
connectivity platform. Vital Signs Check, available for new and existing
Root customers through a software upgrade, augments Root’s versatility
by helping to automate hospital vital signs testing workflows.
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Masimo Root® Vital Signs Check (Photo: Business Wire)
Root is a powerful, expandable platform that integrates an array of
technologies, devices, and systems to provide multimodal monitoring and
connectivity solutions – in a single, clinician-centric hub. Root’s
plug-and-play expansion capabilities allow clinicians to simplify
patient monitoring by bringing together advanced rainbow SET™ Pulse
CO-Oximetry, brain function monitoring, regional oximetry, capnography,
and vital signs measurements on an easy-to-interpret, customizable
display, empowering clinicians with important information for making
patient assessments.
Root Vital Signs Check allows clinicians to streamline vital signs
measurement workflows and optimize patient data management through:
- Automated patient association, with the ability to quickly
associate clinicians with their measurement sessions and patients with
their data using barcode scanning or a drop-down menu that pulls data
from a hospital’s HL7 Admit Discharge Transfer (ADT) system.
- Centralized data collection using a single device. Root, with
the use of its optional roll stand, serves as a convenient, mobile
data collection point for a variety of integrated measurements,
including oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate, respiration
rate, noninvasive hemoglobin (SpHb®), and noninvasive blood
pressure and temperature (including, in the U.S., non-contact
thermometry via the newly announced TIR-1™). Clinicians can also enter
up to 30 additional measurements for immediate documentation and
validation at the patient’s bedside, configured for each care area’s
protocols.
- Early Warning Scores. Configurable early warning scores (EWS)
can be calculated using up to 14 Root-measured and manually-entered
contributors, as determined by hospital protocol.
- Immediate electronic charting at the bedside, with the ability
to send complete, comprehensive data to the hospital electronic
medical record (EMR) with the touch of a button. If a network
connection is interrupted or only available at an access point, Root
can store up to 1,000 sessions and automatically push all data to the
EMR once network access becomes available, saving time and minimizing
the need for manual documentation. Local storage, coupled with unique
patient identifiers, also allows clinicians to trend and review
progress over time from the bedside, which may help to identify
patterns of deterioration.
Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo, said, “From the operating room to
the emergency room, from the ICU to the med-surg unit, Root is
streamlining care, simplifying access to critical data, and improving
hospital workflows, all so that clinicians can stay focused on their
patients. With the Vital Signs Check app, Root’s utility is further
enhanced, taking an important aspect of hospital care – the repetitive,
data-and-labor-intensive measurement of patient vitals – that can
benefit greatly from automation and bringing it in line with the best
that modern technology offers.”
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About Masimo
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) is a global leader in innovative noninvasive
monitoring technologies. Our mission is to improve patient outcomes and
reduce the cost of care. In 1995, the company debuted Masimo SET®
Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry, which has been
shown in multiple studies to significantly reduce false alarms and
accurately monitor for true alarms. Masimo SET® has also been
shown to help clinicians reduce severe retinopathy of prematurity in
neonates,1 improve CCHD screening in newborns,2
and, when used for continuous monitoring with Masimo Patient SafetyNet™*
in post-surgical wards, reduce rapid response activations and costs.3,4,5
Masimo SET® is estimated to be used on more than 100 million
patients in leading hospitals and other healthcare settings around the
world,6 and is the primary pulse oximetry at 17 of the top 20
hospitals listed in the 2017-18 U.S. News and World Report Best
Hospitals Honor Roll.7 In 2005, Masimo introduced rainbow®
Pulse CO-Oximetry technology, allowing noninvasive and continuous
monitoring of blood constituents that previously could only be measured
invasively, including total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen
content (SpOC™), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin
(SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVi®), and more
recently, Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi™), in addition to SpO2,
pulse rate, and perfusion index (Pi). In 2014, Masimo introduced Root®,
an intuitive patient monitoring and connectivity platform with the
Masimo Open Connect® (MOC-9®) interface, enabling
other companies to augment Root with new features and measurement
capabilities. Masimo is also taking an active leadership role in mHealth
with products such as the Radius-7® wearable patient monitor,
iSpO2® pulse oximeter for smartphones, and the
MightySat™ fingertip pulse oximeter. Additional information about Masimo
and its products may be found at www.masimo.com.
Published clinical studies on Masimo products can be found at http://www.masimo.com/evidence/featured-studies/feature/.
ORi has not received FDA 510(k) clearance and is not available for sale
in the United States.
*The use of the trademark Patient SafetyNet is under license from
University HealthSystem Consortium.
References
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Castillo A et al. Prevention of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm
Infants through Changes in Clinical Practice and SpO2
Technology. Acta Paediatr. 2011 Feb;100(2):188-92.
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de-Wahl Granelli A et al. Impact of pulse oximetry screening on the
detection of duct dependent congenital heart disease: a Swedish
prospective screening study in 39,821 newborns. BMJ. 2009;Jan
8;338.
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Taenzer AH et al. Impact of Pulse Oximetry Surveillance on Rescue
Events and Intensive Care Unit Transfers: A Before-And-After
Concurrence Study. Anesthesiology. 2010; 112(2):282-287.
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Taenzer AH et al. Postoperative Monitoring – The Dartmouth Experience. Anesthesia
Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter. Spring-Summer 2012.
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McGrath SP et al. Surveillance Monitoring Management for General Care
Units: Strategy, Design, and Implementation. The Joint Commission
Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2016 Jul;42(7):293-302.
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Estimate: Masimo data on file.
- http://health.usnews.com/health-care/best-hospitals/articles/best-hospitals-honor-roll-and-overview.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements as defined in
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in connection with the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking
statements include, among others, statements regarding the potential
effectiveness of Masimo Root®. These forward-looking
statements are based on current expectations about future events
affecting us and are subject to risks and uncertainties, all of which
are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control and
could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from
those expressed in our forward-looking statements as a result of various
risk factors, including, but not limited to: risks related to our
assumptions regarding the repeatability of clinical results; risks
related to our belief that Masimo's unique noninvasive measurement
technologies, including Masimo Root, contribute to positive clinical
outcomes and patient safety; risks related to our belief that Masimo
noninvasive medical breakthroughs provide cost-effective solutions and
unique advantages; as well as other factors discussed in the "Risk
Factors" section of our most recent reports filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which may be obtained for free at the
SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Although we believe that the expectations reflected in our
forward-looking statements are reasonable, we do not know whether our
expectations will prove correct. All forward-looking statements included
in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the
foregoing cautionary statements. You are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of
today's date. We do not undertake any obligation to update, amend or
clarify these statements or the "Risk Factors" contained in our most
recent reports filed with the SEC, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under
the applicable securities laws.

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