LiDCO Group plc (AIM: LID), the cardiovascular monitoring company, is pleased to announce that Picis, the leading provider of high-acuity care automation software for hospitals, is to create a custom device link between LiDCO’s proprietary, stand-alone monitoring system and the Picis CareSuite™ hospital information management system (HIS) or any other HIS that Picis communicates to. Once completed, the communications link will allow Picis customers access to LiDCO’s proprietary, minimally-invasive hemodynamic monitoring data. The integration of critical care parameters and data derived from the LiDCOplus monitor will allow a full picture of the patient’s condition and history to be displayed and accessed throughout the hospital.

LiDCO’s CEO, Dr. Terry O’Brien, commented: “The communications link will further enhance the utility of the LiDCOplus system for both our existing and future Picis customers. LiDCO will continue to explore additional non-exclusive collaborations with the major corporations providing monitoring products to the acute care hospital market. Our ambition is to make LiDCO’s technology the standard of care throughout the hospital for minimally-invasive hemodynamic monitoring.”

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About LiDCO Plc

LiDCO is a UK-based AIM-traded developer, manufacturer and leading supplier of minimally invasive, computer-based hemodynamic monitoring equipment and disposables used primarily for the management of critical care and cardiovascular risk hospital patients. Use of LiDCO's technology has been shown to significantly reduce the complications (particularly infections) and costs associated with major surgery. The technology was invented in the Department of Applied Physiology based at St Thomas' Hospital, London where the Company maintains a research base.

The Company’s manufacturing facility is in Hoxton, London and its current products are: 

• LiDCOplus and PulseCO monitors: computer-based platforms for displaying a range of real-time, continuous hemodynamic parameters including cardiac output, oxygen delivery and fluid volume;

• LiDCO disposables: used in conjunction with the LiDCOplus Monitor to accurately determine cardiac output in a minimally-invasive manner.

Distribution Network:

The Company has now achieved registration of its products in 13 markets in Europe, the USA, Brazil and Japan. It sells direct to the NHS in the UK, and through a worldwide network of specialty critical care distributors.

About Picis

Picis is the leading, worldwide provider of information systems that deliver proven best-in-cluster patient care transformation for the highest-acuity care areas of the hospital — the emergency department, the operating room and the intensive care unit. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has installed systems in more than 900 medical centers and hospital networks worldwide including over 700 in North America, automating more surgical procedures, emergency visits and intensive care stays than any other company in the world. Picis has received numerous awards, including those from Microsoft, Ernst & Young, HCIT Research, Healthcare Informatics and Frost and Sullivan. Picis was recently named to both the Deloitte& Touche Fast 500 and the Inc. Magazine 500 lists (105th overall) of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. More information is available at www.picis.com.