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LifeSync Joins Continua Health Alliance

Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 09:01 CDT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeSync Corporation announced today that it has joined the Continua Health Alliance -- a non-profit, open industry alliance of healthcare and technology companies collaborating in order to improve the quality of personal healthcare. Through Continua, LifeSync will be able to collaborate with other industry leaders in order to help establish standards for the application of wireless technologies to health care.

"We are excited to be able to participate and contribute," said Shelley Hartman, LifeSync's CEO. "We believe that our mission to improve patient outcomes by applying wireless technologies to the acquisition and transmission of patient vital signs integrates very well with what Continua is doing."

By participating in Continua, the company hopes to contribute to the interoperability of wireless medical devices for better patient management. "Our LifeSync(R) Wireless ECG System has been used by many critical care hospitals for several years now," said Mark Phelps, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Research & Development for LifeSync. "We've learned some valuable lessons about the use of wireless technologies in a rigorous acute care setting that can greatly help the development of technologies for home health."

LifeSync Corporation is a medical device company dedicated to the continued development, marketing and sale of the LifeSync(R) Wireless System. The LifeSync(R) System is the first universal wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) data communication system appropriate for use in hospital and outpatient settings where cardiac ECG and respiration monitoring are required. The LifeSync(R) System utilizes Bluetooth(R) communications technology and interfaces with existing patient monitoring equipment to allow healthcare facilities to monitor patients wirelessly. The system is used with LifeSync LeadWear(R) disposable products which replace traditional reusable lead wires. In many hospitals the LifeSync(R) System has demonstrated several important clinical and economic benefits including improved signal continuity and quality, increased productivity and decreased risk to patients of hospital acquired infections. LifeSync's products and systems are registered with the FDA and sold to hospitals and stress labs across the United States.

LifeSync Corporation

CONTACT: Kent Lupino of LifeSync Corporation, +1-404-477-2676 x7397,klupino@lifesynccorp.com

Source: PRNewswire

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