Stryker adds care.ai to health care IT offering
By HME News Staff
Updated 8:26 AM CDT, Mon August 19, 2024
PORTAGE, Mich. – Stryker has signed a definitive agreement to acquire care.ai, a privately held company specializing in delivering artificial intelligence-assisted virtual care workflows, smart room technology and ambient intelligence solutions. The company says the acquisition will strengthen its growing health care IT offering and wireless connected medical device portfolio. “This acquisition underscores our commitment and focus on our customers," stated Andy Pierce, group president, medsurg and neurotechnology, Stryker. “care.ai will help Stryker significantly accelerate our health care IT and digital vision to provide customers with real-time, smart and connected decision-making tools that enhance the lives of caregivers and their patients.” Stryker previously acquired Vocera Communications, a platform for clinical communication and workflow. The company says care.ai adds complementary technology that will integrate seamlessly with the Vocera platform and Stryker’s devices, providing customers with an enterprise-wide ecosystem that can deliver dynamic clinical workflows and further the development of smart care facilities.
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