Monica Healthcare

Monica Healthcare is the British producer of fetalny ECGs monitors which serve for registration of frequency of heartbeat of a fruit and mother, sokratitelny activity of a uterus and physical activity of the child who is in a womb. Logged data are transferred to the computer by a wireless way (Bluetooth). By March, 2017 the equipment Monica Healthcare is used approximately in 1 thousand medical institutions in Europe, Asia and North America. In 2016 about 100 thousand patients around the world received the help thanks to products of the British producer.

2017: GE Healthcare buys Monica Healthcare

In March, 2017 the American producer of the medical equipment GE Healthcare announced Monica Healthcare acquisition. At the expense of this transaction the buyer will be able to expand a portfolio of the digital products providing care of expectant mothers and fruits. Financial side of the agreement does not reveal.

In GE Healthcare we aim to improve a possibility of medical care in different areas, including childbirth. This acquisition we will integrate improbable experience and innovations in the field of mobile digital technologies from the Monica command with long-term leadership and customer focus of GE Healthcare. The purpose of all this is improvement of quality of care after mother and the child around the world, said in the statement of GE Healthcare.

The device for care of pregnant women from Monica Healthcare company

Questions of care of mother and the child are one of priority in medicine as, according to data of the United Nations Children's Fund of UNICEF, every day because of the complications connected with pregnancy or childbirth in the world about 800 women die.

By estimates of analysts of Grand View Research, in 2016 the volume of the world market of services of fetalny and neonatal care of newborns was $6.7 billion. During the period from 2014 to 2025 this market will grow approximately for 7.6% a year, researchers predict.^[1]

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