Capsule Continues to Lead the Device Connectivity World

Capsule, despite the economic challenges of 2009, has continued to grow, exceeding financial projections and installing a record number of hospitals. Capsule now has over 500 hospitals using their proven, vendor neutral, plug and play, connectivity solution.

Within these hospitals, Capsule has implemented connectivity from over 30,000 different devices to 40 different types of information systems such as Epic, Eclipsys, Cerner, MEDITECH, Philips, GE, Siemens, Draeger, Visicu, and Docusys. In fact, many of these implementations feature connectivity to multiple information systems with only one point of integration for the hospital to manage and feature connectivity in a variety of clinical settings throughout the institution including the OR, PACU, ED, med-surg, and all Critical Care areas such as the ICU, NICU, PICU, SICU, CICU, and CCU.

Capsule was chosen at these facilities because they could deliver a solution that would connect all the devices to all the systems needed, that minimized their points of integration, and that could be deployed throughout the institution. "We chose Capsule Tech, Inc., an Andover, Massachusetts-based vendor, to integrate our ventilators, fetal monitors and select physiological monitors because they have a proven solution with over 450 devices available for connection using their DataCaptor? software. This approach didn't tie us to a specific medical device vendor and its product line and gave us more data points and more integrated devices than other solutions," said Raphael Aquino, BMDI Technical Manager, Sentara Healthcare.

Stuart Long, VP of North American Sales, comments, "We are very pleased to see continued growth in sales, especially in this very difficult year. This growth not only speaks to our sales team, but also our strength in partner relationships. We continue to sign new device and HIS partners to not only further strengthen our vendor neutral position in the market, but to ensure that hospitals have a flexible, scalable solution that can grow with them as they add and change devices and expand connectivity throughout the hospital."

In addition to this record growth, Capsule also continues to prove to the industry that it understands the connectivity needs of the market and that it will continue to work with its partners and industry leaders to develop and deliver solutions that meet those needs. For example, Capsule realized that hospitals needed a solution that would expand connectivity to lower acuity environments. To address this need, they recently launched their new Enterprise Connectivity Solution enabled by the innovative Capsule Neuron? platform. This revolutionary solution, designed with the clinician in mind, actually adapts to existing or planned clinical work processes and integrates with existing technologies and infrastructures.