MINNEAPOLIS and BOTHELL, Wash., July 22
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) unit Best Buy For
Business and Cardiac Science Corporation (Nasdaq: CSCX) today
announced an alliance to help physicians overcome the medical
technology challenges that impede rapid adoption of connected
medical technologies. Best Buy For Business serves small and medium
businesses and provides a wide array of computing products and
expert information technology (IT) support services. Cardiac
Science Corporation is a global leader in automated external
defibrillator (AED) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices.
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The partnership is an important pillar in the business unit's
strategy to focus on markets with the strongest need and growth
potential.
"Healthcare reform incentivizes physicians to adopt medical
technologies that network with electronic medical record systems,
and there is a great unmet opportunity for IT expertise in the
small and mid-size medical office," said Glen Swanson, vice president of the Business
Customer Group at Best Buy. "Our relationship with Cardiac Science
will enable us to more effectively serve tens of thousands of
physicians who are seeking support for their IT needs."
The Best Buy For Business team will help physician offices
choose computing and networking products which will allow
utilization of Cardiac Science medical device purchases, including
products such as CareCenter MD, a new PC-based diagnostic
workstation for ECG and stress, and HeartCentrix, an EMR-device
connectivity solution for Cardiac Science ECG, stress, and Holter
products. Practices also may utilize Best Buy's Geek Squad team of
trained IT experts to install and support these computer and
networking products.
"Cardiac Science customers who want IT sales and service support
can now turn to a Best Buy For Business team specifically trained
in Cardiac Science products," said Dave Marver, Cardiac Science
president and chief executive officer. "Physicians can concentrate
on providing the best patient care, knowing they have the best
technological and medical device support available to them."
About the Best Buy For Business / Cardiac Science
partnership
The Best Buy For Business / Cardiac Science partnership serves
the medical field with an offering of medical device and computer
technology solutions to facilitate the move to PC-based healthcare
information systems.
Cardiac Science will continue to handle medical device sales,
installation, in-service training, and medical device technical
support. Best Buy For Business will supply IT products and services
selected specifically to ensure optimal performance of Cardiac
Science devices in the physician office. The products and services
to be offered by Best Buy For Business include pre-sales IT
consulting, IT hardware and software sales, installation, and
post-sales technical support.
About Cardiac Science
Cardiac Science develops, manufactures, and markets a family of
advanced diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology devices and systems,
including automated external defibrillators (AED),
electrocardiograph devices (ECG/EKG), cardiac stress treadmill and
systems, diagnostic workstations, Holter monitoring systems,
hospital defibrillators, vital signs monitors, cardiac
rehabilitation telemetry systems, and cardiology data management
systems (informatics) that connect with hospital information (HIS),
electronic medical record (EMR), and other information systems. The
company sells a variety of related products and consumables and
provides a portfolio of training, maintenance, and support
services. Cardiac Science, the successor to the cardiac businesses
that established the trusted Burdick®, HeartCentrix®, Powerheart®,
and Quinton® brands, is headquartered in Bothell, Washington. With customers in more
than 100 countries worldwide, the company has operations in
North America, Europe, and Asia. For information, call 425.402.2000 or
visit http://www.cardiacscience.com.
For updates and information on worldwide defibrillation and
cardiac monitoring, find us on the Cardiac Science blog at
http://www.cardiacscience.com/blog, Twitter at
http://twitter.com/cardiacscience, Facebook at
http://budurl.com/CSonFB, and YouTube at
http://budurl.com/CSonYT.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. The word
"believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such
words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements,
but their absence does not mean that the statement is not
forward-looking. Forward looking statements in this press release
include, but are not limited to, those that refer to synergies
brought about by the partnership with Best Buy for Business; the
relative importance of one or more particular products to Cardiac
Science's business or any portion of its business; and the
anticipated future introduction of new technologies and products.
These are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe
harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Actual results and performance may vary significantly
from those expressed or implied in such statements. Factors that
could cause or contribute to such varying results and other risks
include those more fully described in the Annual Report on Form
10-K filed by Cardiac Science Corporation for the year ended
December 31, 2009, as updated by
subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Cardiac Science
Corporation undertakes no duty or obligation to update the
information provided herein.
For more information,
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Mike Matysik
Cardiac Science
Corporation
Sr. Vice President and
CFO
425.402.2009
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Matt Clawson
Allen & Caron
949.474.4300
matt@allencaron.com
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Christopher Gale
EVC Group, Inc.
646.201.5431
203.570.4681
cgale@evcgroup.com
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