Philips and Atom Medical Corporation Form Strategic Alliance

Philips Healthcare (Philips, Best, The Netherlands) and Atom Medical Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) have announced a strategic alliance to provide a complete neonatal and perinatal offering.

The new alliance is intended to serve customers with a more complete portfolio of perinatal care solutions, and includes neonatal patient monitoring, apnea home monitoring, neonatal incubators and warmers, jaundice management, respiratory support, perinatal clinical informatics as well as therapeutic support products and clinical education offerings.

According to the companies, the alliance partners adhere to a shared commitment to provide developmentally-friendly products, education to support improved outcomes in neonatal care, and support for family-centered care that enables caregivers to focus on the actual health and well being of mothers and babies, rather than focusing only on the technology that surrounds them. A distribution agreement between the two companies will be launched first in the United States and selected European markets.

"Working with Atom creates a unique opportunity for Philips to be able to offer the complete product portfolio for hospitals to use to treat babies in the delivery room, newborn nursery, and neonatal intensive care units,” said David Russell, general manager of perinatal care for Philips Healthcare. "This alliance bolsters our leading market position, providing an opportunity for continued and broader development of perinatal care solutions with access to additional markets.”

"Atom Medical is a leading company in the global neonatal care field and our specialized thermoregulation technology will help to complete Philips' excellent, broad perinatal care solutions portfolio,” said Barry Matsubara, CEO of Atom Medical Corporation. "We are pleased to expand our relationship with Philips, with its strong global reputation and tradition for innovation in healthcare. Our collaboration will result in enhanced solutions for the most important fragile babies and for clinicians working in perinatal care.”

Atom Medical has distributed Philips fetal and maternal obstetrical monitors and neonatal developmental care products in Japan since 2007.

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