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Cybernet
Medical Awarded Broad Patent for Linking the Internet with Outpatient
Medical Care
Patent
Incorporated as Part of a Nationwide Internet-based Cardiac Outpatient
Monitoring Network
Ann
Arbor, Michigan, June 6, 2000 -
Cybernet
Systems Corporation today announced the award of U.S.
patent 6,050,940, a broad patent covering the implementation
of a variety of Internet-enabled medical products and the data services
that support them. The company is incorporating the patent into
its launch of a centralized national cardiac outpatient monitoring
network for remote data capture, analysis, archive and display.
The company is also licensing the instrumentation, data services
software and patent coverage to appropriate medical groups, facilities
and equipment manufacturers interested in offering complementary
outpatient care using Internet communications.
"While
there is already a thriving market for collecting, compiling and
transferring outpatient medical data, Cybernet Medical's patented
technology will enable physicians to access medical images and patient
data more quickly and easily, and from any Internet connection anywhere
in the world," said Chuck Jacobus, president of Cybernet Systems.
"Our goal is to offer physicians a complement to existing medical
business practices, a service that lowers costs by enabling constant
remote monitoring and analysis through outpatient care and also
ultimately improves outpatient freedom and mobility. Perhaps more
importantly, it allows this data to be easily shared with colleagues
or specialists in a speedy, secure fashion."
The
Cybernet Medical patent, awarded April 18, 2000, covers the innovative
use of Internet and wireless connectivity for portable physiological
measurement instruments like EEG, EKG, blood pressure, pulse oximetry
and other systems. The patent includes a description of how physiological
measurements are remotely taken in conjunction with more conventional
video and sound information, and then transmitted through wired
or wireless packet networks to central processing and archival systems.
As an example, it includes the remote acquisition and transmission
of medical data across the Internet for processing and relaying
to medical practitioners for review and diagnosis.
"It's
a very broad patent," Jacobus added. "For measuring medically-relevant
variables like blood pressure, heart and pulse rates, the patent
includes everything from cell phone web applications to Internet
audio and video transmissions."
"We
are pleased to see the expanded development of Internet capabilities
for outpatient cardiac care," noted Damon Coffman, division vice
president-engineering for Alaris Medical Systems, Inc. "As one of
the leading manufacturers of remote cardiac monitoring devices,
Alaris fully supports technologies that deliver faster and better
care to cardiac patients Ð from new ways of providing cardiologists
with secure Internet connections for sharing data with colleagues
to on-demand transmission methods for physiological data from the
patient to the physician."
"Cardiac
patients will greatly benefit from new technologies that offer physicians
reliable methods for monitoring their physiological progress outside
of the hospital setting," noted Harold L. Karpman, M.D., a clinical
professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. "The Internet,
and the technologies that support it, give physicians new abilities
to monitor a patient's vital signs regardless of their location
or time of day, and to make appropriate treatment recommendations."
About
Cybernet
Cybernet
Systems is a privately-held technology research and development
company focused on creating and commercializing innovative, high
quality, leading-edge solutions in the medical, networking, wireless,
robotics, electromechanical and PC hardware/software arenas. The
company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. More information
on Cybernet is available on the World Wide Web at www.cybernet.com.
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