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Spacelabs Healthcare Launches New Wireless Patient Monitor: Continues Expansion of Wireless Monitoring Product Line

Posted on: Thursday, 23 February 2006, 09:01 CST

Spacelabs Healthcare, Inc., a subsidiary of OSI Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSIS), today announced its patient monitoring division, Spacelabs Medical, has launched internationally a new addition to the UltraviewSL(TM) line of patient monitors. The new UltraviewSL2600 is an advanced monitor with options that support Spacelabs' ongoing commitment to open standards and wireless connectivity bringing workstation functionality including charting and other hospital applications to the point of care.

The new UltraviewSL 2600 is designed to meet customer needs in a variety of care areas where connectivity and accessibility to patient data is essential. By utilizing the monitors' wireless connectivity, patient vital signs can be collected and displayed on central monitors while patients are being moved within the hospital environment. This seamless monitoring and collection of patient data through the Spacelabs' Intesys(R) Clinical Suite (ICS) of networked applications helps to enhance the standard of care and minimize interruptions in the automated collection of patient data.

Spacelabs Healthcare CEO, Mr. Deepak Chopra, said, "The Company is committed to enhancing our wireless monitoring product offering throughout our patient monitoring product line. This is demonstrated with the recent release of the wireless option for the UltraviewSL2400 series of compact monitors and todays announced release of the UltraviewSL2600. Our goal is to help clinicians stay connected to information so they can remain focused on patient care. The new UltraviewSL 2600 is the next step in supporting this goal."

The UltraviewSL 2600 provides clinicians with certain enhanced features compared to the UltraviewSL2400 compact monitors, primarily its WinDNA(R) software capability and a larger display screen. Spacelabs' proprietary WinDNA(R) software allows clinicians access to lab, radiology and patient records at the point of care. The larger display screen allows this information and patient data, including all 12 Leads of a 12-Lead ECG, to be displayed clearly at the bedside. The new UltraviewSL2600 is well-suited to a broad range of environments, including perioperative, emergency and neonatal care departments. The UltraviewSL 2600 is fully network compatible with all existing Spacelabs UltraviewSL, Ultraview(R) and PCMS(TM) central and bedside monitors.

About Spacelabs Healthcare, Inc.

Spacelabs Healthcare, Inc. (www.spacelabshealthcare.com) is an international developer, manufacturer and distributor of medical equipment and services including patient monitoring solutions, anesthesia delivery and ventilation systems, pulse oximeters and sensors and bone densitometers selling to hospitals, clinics and physicians offices. Additionally, the company provides ECG laboratory services to pharmaceutical companies undertaking clinical trials, whereby patient ECG data is recorded, analyzed, tabulated and interpreted.

The company has established brand names in both medical devices and medical services such as "Spacelabs,""Blease" and "Dolphin." It employs approximately 1,050 personnel in its 14 offices the United States, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Finland and Singapore. The company conducts its manufacturing and R&D in the United States, India, and UK.

Spacelabs Healthcare is a subsidiary of OSI Systems, Inc., a US-based, NASDAQ listed company.

About OSI Systems, Inc.

OSI Systems Inc. is a Hawthorne, California based diversified global developer, manufacturer and seller of security and inspection systems, medical monitoring and anesthesia delivery products, and optoelectronic-based components, as well as a provider of engineering and manufacturing services. The company has more than 30 years of experience in electronics engineering and manufacturing and maintains offices and production facilities located in more than a dozen countries. OSI Systems implements a strategy of expansion by leveraging its electronics and contract manufacturing capabilities into selective end product markets through organic growth and acquisitions. For more information on OSI Systems Inc. or any of its subsidiary companies, visit www.osi-systems.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include information regarding the company's expectations, goals or intentions about the future, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the sale of patient monitoring wireless options for the UltraviewSL. The actual results may differ materially from those described in or implied by any forward-looking statement. In particular, there can be no assurance that the product launch will occur as currently planned, that the product will work seamlessly with our products or the products of others, that sales of the new product will be significant, or that the company will remain committed to open standard and wireless connectivity in the future. Other important factors are set forth in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings of OSI Systems, Inc. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and we undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Source: Business Wire

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