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18 dec 2007 - 08:08
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Koninklijke Philips N.V.
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Philips announces intention to acquire US-based VISICU – a leader in clinical IT for the intensive care unit
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December 18, 2007
PHILIPS ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO ACQUIRE US-BASED VISICU – A LEADER IN CLINICAL IT FOR THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
• Philips to pay USD 12.00 for each VISICU share, representing an acquisition price of approximately USD 430 million (approximately EUR 290 million)
• Philips to grow business by combining VISICU’s clinical IT hardware and software for the ICU with Philips’ patient monitoring products to help medical staff actively and remotely monitor more ICU patients, boosting hospital productivity and patient care
• Deal complements Philips’ earlier acquisition of clinical IT company Emergin
• VISICU’s Board of Directors will recommend offer to shareholders
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Baltimore, Maryland – Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) today announced a merger agreement with clinical IT and service provider VISICU Inc. (NASDAQ: EICU) through which Philips is offering to acquire the entire share capital of VISICU for USD 12.00 per VISICU share. By integrating VISICU’s remote patient monitoring and clinical decision support technology with Philips’ patient monitors, both companies expect to accelerate growth by offering products that provide more effective clinical decision support to hospital staff, while allowing them to monitor far greater numbers of critically ill patients. The board of directors of VISICU has approved the transaction and has recommended that VISICU shareholders vote their shares in favor of the merger.
Based in Baltimore, Maryland, VISICU is a leader in clinical IT systems that enable critical care medical staff to actively monitor patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) from remote locations. The company’s patented clinical IT system, called the eICU Program, provides real time, 24x7 patient monitoring in ICUs, and can be likened to an air-traffic controller’s station by centrally networking critical care physicians and nurses to ICU beds using voice and video. Equipped with artificial intelligenc
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