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PDC Healthcare announces preferred distribution agreement with Cancard, Inc for Canada.

PDC, a global leader of identification products and safety solutions, is partnering with Cancard, Inc to bring a transformative and complete portfolio of identity solutions for patients, people, and products to Canada. In the 60+ years since the innovative first-time development of wristbands, PDC has grown into an innovative manufacturer of identification products, access control, and patient safety solutions serving healthcare, government, education, entertainment, events, hospitality, and other business and non-profit organizations.

Cancard’s 30+ years of service for healthcare customers in Canada combined with PDC's line of patient ID products will bring significant value for patients and caregivers. Together Cancard and PDC will work collaboratively to use their combined knowledge and experience to bring the very best available technology and support to serve the Healthcare facilities who work so tirelessly to keep us all safe and healthy.

"We are happy to bring the PDC line of patient ID wrist bands, and other patient alert products to our healthcare customers in Canada and provide a reliable and cost-effective option to transition out of plastic cards with little to no maintenance costs compared to the plastic card embossers. Cancard will also offer significant value through flexible service and value add programs to lower total cost of ownership and help transition to the PDC line of printers and wristbands," said Michael Smith, Director Sales and Marketing, Cancard, Inc.

About PDC Healthcare (https://www.pdchealthcare.com/)

PDC was founded in 1956 as Precision Dynamics Corporation with a revolutionary innovation for its time - a single-piece wristband, requiring no additional parts or tools. In the 60+ years since, PDC has grown into a global leader and innovative manufacturer of identification products, access control, and patient safety solutions serving healthcare, government, education, entertainment, events, hospitality, and other business and non-profit organizations. PDC is a Brady Corporation, an international manufacturer and marketer of complete solutions that identify and protect people, products, and places.

About Cancard (https://cancard.com/)

Cancard, Inc is a broad-based technology company with operations in Canada and USA since 1989. Cancard started as a financial / plastic card manufacturing company with focus on security, product quality and best-in-class onsite service. This helped Cancard to quickly grow into multi-industry, tracking, marking and identification technology company with applications in healthcare, industrial and other industry verticals. Cancard also expanded in healthcare segment with innovative medication management, patient identifications, medical equipment, RTLS and digital health software products. Cancard has dedicated industry specific sales and well renowned field-based service technicians who collectively have 75+ years of service experience and are committed to keep our customers operations running. Cancard will continue its mission of bringing most innovative products and services for its customers to meet ever evolving business needs.