Monitoring expectant mothers and their babies before and during childbirth is not only vital but at times, a complicated task. GE Healthcare www.gehealthcare.com is expanding their Maternal Infant Care business with the acquisition of Monica Healthcare www.monicahealthcare.com, a monitoring technology company based in the UK.
Monica Healthcare is a 12 year old private company dedicated to improving the birth experience and enhancing obstetric care though wearable wireless fetal monitoring devices. The company’s advanced fetal monitors already empower midwives, labor and delivery nurses, and expectant women at approximately 1,000 sites across Europe, Asia, and North America with more than 100,000 patients impacted just last year.
Since 2015, GE Healthcare has been Monica’s North American distribution partner for the Novii™ Wireless Patch System. This system is a single patient use patch that effectively monitors maternal heart rates, fetal heart rates and uterine activity even on many of the most difficult to monitor patients.
Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaYdStb9ITE to watch the video on the Novii Wireless Patch System.