systems inc. nasdaq.com industry medical device manufacturer founded california 1958 headquarters snoqualmie washington key people sujit kumar president deepak chopra ceo alan edrick cfo products patient monitoring diagnostic cardiology products anesthesia delivery products it solutions number of employees 1 043 2013 website www.spacelabshealthcare.com spacelabs healthcare is an american manufacturer of medical equipment and is a wholly owned subsidiary of osi systems nasdaq osis of hawthorne california and offers products and services from three divisions patient monitoring and connectivity anesthesia delivery and diagnostic cardiology . the company headquarters are in snoqualmie washington state and it employs over one thousand people around the world . contents 1 history 2 key dates 3 references 4 external links history edit spacelabs was founded in 1958 by two scientists to develop cardiac monitoring and telemetry systems for nasa to monitor astronauts vital signs in the early space missions . they developed wireless vital signs monitoring for both gemini and apollo astronauts see external link 1 below . the company went on to develop sophisticated medical monitoring systems with some significant firsts resulting in them becoming one of the top us manufacturers in the 1980s . spacelabs has had several owners . these include squibb through westmark instrumentarium corporation and indirectly ge medical during the ge acquisition of instrumentarium and currently osi systems . 1 subsequently the company has made several acquisitions to expand its portfolio adding diagnostic cardiology and anesthesia products thus forming spacelabs healthcare in 2005 . key dates edit 1958 ben ettelson and james a reeves founded spacelabs to collaborate with nasa working to develop systems to monitor astronauts vital signs . 1965 astronauts james mcdivitt and edward white wear spacelabs telemetry systems to monitor their temperature respiration and heart rate during the gemini iv space mission . 1968 spacelabs introduces the first icu and ccu monitoring systems . 1969 neil armstrong steps on the moon wearing spacelabs wireless vital signs monitoring . see external link 1 below 1974 spacelabs launches the first monitoring system to incorporate microprocessor technology . 1980 squibb acquires spacelabs . 1986 spacelabs becomes part of squibb corp. s westmark international inc. 1992 westmark spins off spacelabs which then begins trading under the name spacelabs medical . 1995 spacelabs purchases consolidated peritronics medical inc. 1997 the company acquires burdick and advanced medical systems . 1998 spacelabs acquires exclusive rights to market and distribute medical insight r & d s anesthesia delivery system and launches the ultraview care network . 2001 spacelabs sells its headquarters building in redmond washington and moves to issaquah wa 2002 spacelabs is acquired by instrumentarium and is merged with its medical division datex ohmeda finland s largest medical equipment manufacturer . 2002 ge medical systems purchases instrumentarium in the same year on the proviso that spacelabs is divested to comply with the monopolies commission ; quinton cardiology systems buys burdick from spacelabs . 2005 osi acquires blease the british anesthesia equipment manufacturer . 2005 spacelabs medical and blease medical are merged into one new company spacelabs healthcare . 2006 osi acquires del mar reynolds the british diagnostic cardiology company and adds it to the healthcare organization . 2013 spacelabs healthcare moves from issaquah and purchases new headquarters in snoqualmie . 2014 spacelabs healthcare closes india r & d centre references edit http www.biospace.com news osi systems inc to acquire spacelabs medical 14771020 external links edit spacelabshealthcare.com osi systems.com space proven medical monitor the total patient care package spacelabs healthcare is a wholly owned subsidiary of osi systems nasdaq osis of hawthorne california which manufactures and distributes medical equipment . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title spacelabs healthcare & oldid 738131941 categories companies based in washington state medical equipment manufacturersking county washingtoncompanies established in 1958 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 02 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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