Card Guard AG

Card Guard AG develops, manufactures, and markets advanced telehealth systems and monitoring services for high-risk and chronically ill patients. The company specializes in the areas of cardiology, hypertension, diabetes, ob/gyn, and pulmonology. Cardiology products include ambulatory cardiac telemetry, wireless cardiology, transtelephonic event recorders, looping and non-looping recorders, and pacemaker followup monitors. Hypertension products comprise wireless and desktop blood pressure and pulse rate monitors, and weight scales. Diabetes products consist of PMP4 SelfCheck Gluco system. Pulmonology products include spirometers and oximeters. Ob/gyn products comprise portable fetal/maternal monitors. Card Guard also provides an interactive TV Healthcare System that enables its users to monitor, diagnose, and manage general consumer health, fitness, and illness. In addition, it offers a wireless healthcare system, PMP4 Web-Based Medical Center that provides the tools to screen, monitor, and manage general consumer health, high-risk and chronically ill patients, and the wellness and fitness communities. Further, the company provides a patient monitoring solution for routine examinations in the home, as well as monitoring patients with one or more chronic diseases, such as asthma, COPD, coronary disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes, or hypertension; ambulatory patient monitoring solutions for the emergency medical service industry; and ambulatory cardiac monitoring solutions for emergency medical services, homecare agencies, cardiac monitoring call centers, and disease management companies. Additionally, Card Guard provides wellness products, which include HealthePod for self-monitoring and management; and a Web-based server that generates and manages electronic files of a consumer’s medical data. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.