Tag: CPAP
Enos Home Medical recommits to sleep
May 24, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – Nearly five years after its exit, Enos Home Medical has launched Enos Sleep Solutions to fill a gap in the market for personalized care for sleep apnea, says CEO Jon Enos.
Enos Home Medical in 2019 sold its sleep therapy business to Cape Medical Supply to focus on hospice. Cape Medical was eventually acquired in 2021 by AdaptHealth.
“There's not a whole lot of options (anymore),” said Enos. “It's pretty much a monopoly and...
ResMed studies show efficacy of PAP therapy
May 23, 2024HME News Staff
SAN DIEGO – New ResMed-supported research providing insights into the effectiveness of PAP therapy in treating sleep-disordered breathing and its associated clinical benefits was presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.
The studies were among a total of 26 supported by ResMed in collaboration with leading scientists, including Michael Arzt, MD, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Germany; Jean-Louis Pépin, MD, Grenoble Alpes University, France;...
Enos Home Medical launches new sleep division
May 15, 2024HME News Staff
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – Enos Home Medical is launching Enos Sleep Solutions, five years after it sold its sleep therapy business. “After our exit, it has become clear that physicians, patients and caregivers have been searching for personalized high quality home care that national corporations are not capable or unwilling to offer,” the company stated. “We will measure our success in patient outcomes and not the bottom line.” The family-owned Enos Home Medical, which was...
ResMed sees nothing but ‘tailwind’
April 26, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
SAN DIEGO – The impact of GLP-1 drugs on the CPAP therapy market has stolen the headlines recently, but ResMed Chairman and CEO Mick Farrell says the impact of wearables might be “a higher tidal wave.”
Farrell, on a recent conference call to discuss the company’s financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2024, noted the Samsung Galaxy Watch’s recent de novo authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to detect signs of sleep apnea...
Sleepnet recalls masks with magnets
March 21, 2024HME News Staff
HAMPTON, N.H. – Sleepnet Corporation has initiated a voluntary worldwide recall for all CPAP and BiPAP masks with magnets due to potential interference with certain medical devices. When a magnet comes into close proximity to certain medical implants or metallic implants, it could interfere with the performance or the position of the implant, potentially resulting in serious injury or death. Sleepnet has been distributing masks with magnets since 2006 and to date there have been no...
SuperCare pilots face scanning tech
March 14, 2024HME News Staff
DOWNEY, Calif. – SuperCare Health is honoring National Sleep Awareness Week with a new pilot program testing face scanning technology for CPAP masks. During a virtual appointment with a prescribing physician or respiratory therapist, patients can use the technology to scan their faces with their own mobile devices and find a mask that fits them best from a wide selection of options. SuperCare believes the technology will make sleep apnea treatment easier, more cost effective and more efficient...
React Health CEO: How do we make a frictionless solution?
February 28, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
SARASOTA, Fla. – Bill Shoop, who spent 20 years working his way up the ladder at ResMed, says his move to React Health is about “unfinished business.”
“I still think there’s a lot of work to do,” said Shoop, React Health’s new CEO. “I think, as we’ve started to understand more about sleep disorders and respiratory insufficiencies, the approach to diagnosis and treatment has stayed the same. How do we make a more frictionless solution?”
Here’s...
Justin Mortara on AI-powered CPAP therapy
February 9, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MADISON, Wis. – EnsoData President and CEO Justin Mortara is a physicist by training and naturally fascinated by artificial intelligence (AI), but he knows the technology’s superpower is in its ability to be incorporated into “real-world tool sets.”
Here’s what Mortara, a recent guest on the HME News in 10 podcast, had to say about why the company, which first applied AI to speed up the sleep testing process, has now integrated its technology into the React...
Providers feel squeezed in wake of Philips exit
February 2, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Even after enduring the roller-coaster of doing business with Philips Respironics the past few years, providers were still shocked by the company’s recent announcement that it would stop selling certain respiratory products.
Philips on Jan. 25 announced that it would discontinue selling 19 products in the U.S., including items subject to a recall, like the Trilogy 100/200/202 portable home ventilators. The company will service many of the products until Jan....
ResMed on mask recall, big tech and demand-gen
January 26, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
SAN DIEGO – ResMed CEO Mick Farrell said a recall of its CPAP masks with magnets did not impact the company’s sales for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2023.
ResMed in November issued an urgent field safety notice to patients detailing possible interference with its AirFit and AirTouch masks and certain medical devices; the company in December then announced a voluntary global field action to update its guides. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January classified...