Health Robotics Closes the Year 2010 With Record-Breaking Results in the United States and Canada
By Health Robotics, PRNESunday, January 2, 2011
BOZEN, SUD-TIROL, Italy, January 3, 2011 - Health Robotics today announced record-breaking annual results in North
America, as reported by our partners McKesson and Health Robotics Canada Inc.
(HRCI), including new 4Q2010 North American contracts for 2 CytoCare, 2
i.v.STATION, and 1 I.V. Room of the Future projects, bringing Health
Robotics' total to 31 new American contracted installations in 2010, compared
to 1 new contract announced by all direct competitors combined within the
same 12-month period, and also in contrast to zero contracts delivered by our
prior American distribution channels during 2009, before the sales and
service channel upgrades to McKesson and HRCI took place.
"Thanks to our partners McKesson and HRCI, we had an outstanding start-up
year of operations in the United States and Canada, despite our prior
announcement that the company had maxed out its American manufacturing and
installation slots for 2010. We now look forward to resume full
North-American marketing and installation efforts during 2011 after our
American service-channel partners and employees have recently completed
Italy-based technical training for i.v.STATION and i.v.SOFT. After reaching
the milestone of 100 contracted installations last Summer, we are confident
in doubling this mark within 9 months and attaining 200 global contracted
installations by the end of 1Q2011," stated Gaspar DeViedma, Health Robotics'
Executive Vice President.
New CytoCare customers in North America include U Mass Memorial Medical
Center and Ohio Health's Riverside Methodist Hospital. CytoCare continues to
be the world's first and only robotic system proven to ever work in the safe
and sterile preparation of patient-specific hazardous IV Admixtures, and now
reaching 57 worldwide contracted installations for Cancer Therapy Sterile
Compounding, including 5 in North America.
Additionally, Health Robotics recorded new contracts for installations of
2 more i.v.STATION robots at The University of Chicago Medical Center and
Cottage Health System in Santa Barbara (CA), the latter purchasing its second
i.v.STATION robot after the successful installation of its first robot during
2010. With 29 contracted installations to date, i.v.STATION has quickly
become the world leader in its field within a year after its launch,
surpassing all of its competitors' combined installations for the past 20
years.
Finally, The University of Chicago Medical Center signed a new
sole-source agreement for the I.V. Room of the Future, including its Chief
Pharmacy Officer participation in Health Robotics' Scientific Advisory Board,
joining The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, USC
University Hospital, and Sutter Health-Sacramento-Sierra Region, and other
institutions outside North America.
About Health Robotics:
Health Robotics is the undisputed global leading supplier of
life-critical intra-venous medication robots, providing healthcare facilities
in 5 continents with robotics technology and software automation solutions
deployed utilizing virtual high-availability technology. Its world-leading
solutions CytoCare(R) [hazardous IVs], i.v.STATION(R) [non-hazardous IVs],
i.v.SOFT(R) [manual compounding software], MEDarchiver(R) [clinical
information system], and TPNstation(TM) [totally-automated parenteral
nutrition] have and will greatly contribute to ease hospitals' growing
pressures to improve patient safety, increase throughput and contain costs.
Through the effective and efficient production of sterile, accurate,
tamper-evident and ready-to-administer IVs, Health Robotics' solutions help
hospitals eliminate life-threatening drug-exchange errors, decrease other
medical errors and sterility risks, work more efficiently, reduce waste and
controlled substances' diversion, and diminish the gap between rising patient
volume/acuity and scarce medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff. For more
company information, please visit www.health-robotics.com/
For additional information, please contact: Claudia Flaim, Marketing Coordinator flaim@health-robotics.com Phone: +39-0471-200-372
Claudia Flaim, Marketing Coordinator, flaim at health-robotics.com, Phone: +39-0471-200-372
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