Lincor weighs up flotation on expanding sales figures

LINCOR Solutions, a privately-owned Cork-based hospital technology manufacturer, is strongly considering a stock market flotation within the next year, in order to accelerate growth.

The company — founded five years ago by former Apple computer employees Pat O’Donnell, Enda Murphy and Dan Byrne — makes and provides hospitals with bedside patient entertainment/clinician access devices. These give patients access to television, radio, telephony lines, video-on-demand and internet access and also allow doctors to call up a patient’s records on screen by their bed.

“The entertainment capability of the machines is really the trojan horse by which we enter the hospitals. The real opportunity lies in the healthcare and quality aspect, in helping doctors and specialists to bring up on-screen details of a patient’s records and use the system to educate them about their conditions,” said chairman Dan Byrne.