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Email: lauren.green-caldwell@hill-rom.com
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HILL-ROM INNOVATIVE ENVISION® E700 WOUND SURFACE
RECEIVES GOLD MEDICAL DEVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD
BATESVILLE, Ind. (June 11, 2000) – Hill-Rom (NYSE:HRC) has received a Gold 2009 Medical
Device Excellence Award for the Envision® E700 Wound Surface. The award recognizes excellence
in medical device engineering and design. This is the third consecutive year that a Hill-Rom® product
has been recognized with this award.
The Envision E700 Wound Surface is a therapy system that not only reduces shear, friction and pressure, but also helps keep a patient cool, dry and mobile. Designed specifically to address the needs of patients who are at risk for skin break down, the Envision E700 Wound Surface is innovative in its design and offers features that help the care giving staff address patient needs.
“The Envision specialty surface incorporates sensing and weight-based pressure redistribution technology,” explained Jeff Kao, president of Hill-Rom’s North America Acute Care division. “It brings together advanced technology in a new way to create a surface that is therapeutic and offers patient comfort. The innovation in this surface demonstrates Hill-Rom’s core commitment to enhancing outcomes for patients and their caregivers.”
The Envision E700 Wound Surface has multiple layers of 3-D fabric (crush resistant channels)
encased in a shear liner that shifts along with the patient, minimizing shear and friction during patient
movement. It is combined with a unique algorithm that automatically adjusts the seat and back to
reduce shear and friction when the head of the bed is raised. Microclimate management is
accomplished through a unique approach that delivers low air loss through multiple layers of
breathable, 3-D fabric with crush resistant channels increasing air circulation and flow beneath the
patient. In turn, the high moisture vapor permeable, stain resistant cover improves the ability to
manage heat and moisture directly beneath the patient. The product also offers PressureSmart™
Sensing Technology that senses the patient position in real time, allowing optimal pressure
redistribution as the patient sleeps, turns, sits up and gets out of bed.
The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition, organized and presented by Canon
Communications LLC (Los Angeles), is the only awards program that exclusively recognizes
contributions and advances in the design of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of
their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions
that improve health care delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that
provide enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product development team to
overcome design and engineering challenges so that the product meets its clinical objectives. A
comprehensive review of the entries is performed by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of thirdparty
jurors with expertise in biomedical engineering, human factors, industrial design, medicine and
diagnostics.
The 2009 Medical Design Excellence Award winners were announced and honored at a June 10 ceremony during the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East Conference and Exposition in New York.
Hill-Rom received the Gold 2008 Medical Device Excellence Award for the TotalCare® Bariatric
Plus therapy system and before that received the 2007 Medical Device Excellence Award for The
Vest® Airway Clearance System, Model 205. The Vest System is a device to help patients with
respiratory conditions clear airway secretions.
About Hill-Rom
Hill-Rom is a leading worldwide manufacturer and provider of medical technologies and related
services for the health care industry, including patient support systems, safe mobility and handling
solutions, non-invasive therapeutic products for a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions,
medical equipment rentals, and information technology solutions. Hill-Rom’s comprehensive
product and service offerings are used by health care providers across the health care continuum in
hospitals, extended care facilities and home care settings to enhance the safety and quality of patient
care.
Hill-Rom…enhancing outcomes for patients and their caregivers.
www.hill-rom.com