Tag: Healthcom
VRI makes PERS acquisition
July 20, 2017Spencer Ives
FRANKLIN, Ohio—VRI, a large PERS provider based here, recently purchased Healthcom, a healthcare technology provider based in Sullivan, Ill. VRI announced the partnership at the end of June.“We think the companies can grow more quickly together. There's opportunities to collaborate across the market segments,” Chris Hendriksen, CEO at VRI, told Security Systems News. “Secondly, we bring a little bit more scale and we have our own monitoring center, and so it allows us to do...
PERS features debated at AvantGuard summit
October 7, 2015Spencer Ives
PARK CITY, Utah— Attendees debated the demand for “fall detection” in PERS devices at AvantGuard's third PERS Summit, held here last week.The conference featured a panel discussion on fall detection, titled “Fall Detection… Is it the 'Holy Grail' of PERS?” Representatives from PERS manufacturers Climax, Mytrex and Numera led the presentation.Josh Garner, AvantGuard's CEO, summarized the opinions shared in the session: “Dealers need to have it in their repertoire...