Physio-Control enters into merger agreement with Sansio

Physio-Control, Inc., the world leader in emergency medical response technologies today announced it has entered into a merger agreement with Duluth, Minnesota-based Sansio - a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and home healthcare markets. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Physio-Control has been an industry leader in clinical data and quality improvement tools for many years, from the cloud-based LIFENET® System for clinical information collaboration between hospitals and EMS agencies to CODE-STAT™ data review software for post event analysis. Sansio has been a pioneer in the development of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service solutions, such as the HealthEMS ePCR (electronic prehospital care report), that help healthcare providers improve clinical, operational, and financial performance. Since being founded in 1997, adoption of Sansio's solutions has grown rapidly and today touches millions of patient encounters annually. Together, Physio-Control and Sansio will work closely to merge their product offerings and develop the next generation of integrated data tools that help customers' improve patient care and overall system performance.

"This merger is a key part of a broader data strategy for Physio-Control. Data acquisition, movement, and analysis have become essential to our customers' operations and we will soon be able to offer them more integrated data solutions. While our existing data solutions are industry-leading, we believe now is the right time to invest to expand our portfolio and take a much stronger position in this area of our business," said Brian Webster, president and CEO of Physio-Control. "We envision a future with tighter integration between data systems and medical devices, the seamless movement of data between EMS, hospitals and the home, and system level analytics that will drive improvement in clinical and operational performance for our customers. We have been very impressed with the talent of Sansio's team as well as their extensive pipeline of new products so we are eager to kick off this partnership."

"Joining with a world market leader like Physio-Control will give us tremendous ability to expand our healthcare solutions," said Dale Pearson, CEO of Sansio. "Our data platforms are extremely complementary and Physio-Control's broad customer base and distribution reach will allow us to focus our attention on bringing our next generation of products to market. Combined, these two industry-leading companies will deliver very powerful solutions for our Home Health and EMS/Fire customers."

Sansio has a number of future-ready information management solutions that help healthcare providers improve their operations and their care.