Acquisition yields new wireless outpatient monitoring tool

IntriCon Corporation has leveraged Datrix’s cardiac monitoring capabilities to develop a new wireless cardiac monitoring device that's more comfortable for patients and has the ability to identify asymptomatic cardiac events, including atrial fibrillation, Brady arrhythmia, tachy arrhythmia and cardiac pause.

In August 2009, IntriCon acquired Escondido, Calif.-based Datrix, a supplier of cardiac diagnostic monitoring devices (CDMs) to medical OEMs. By combining its capabilities with Datrix’s, the Arden Hills, Minn.-based maker of body-worn medical and electronics devices has created a platform enabling it to expand into other physiological monitoring markets. Adding the wireless outpatient telemetry capability grants IntriCon access to the emerging biotelemetry space.

The company is in the process of unveiling its new CDM--called the Mobile Patient ECG Telemetry System, or MPETS--at the 2009 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, Nov. 15-17, in Orlando, Fla.