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Philips exit: ‘Nothing fazes us anymore' 

February 16, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

YARMOUTH, Maine – A decision by Philips to exit a large chunk of the U.S. respiratory market will have a significant impact on the market, say 70% of respondents to a recent HME Newspoll.  Philips announced in January that it was discontinuing sales for 19 sleep and respiratory products, including oxygen concentrators and ventilators.  “There are very few big manufacturers left,” wrote one respondent. “Respironics had many high-quality products that will be...

HME NewsPoll, Oxygen Concentrator, Philips exit, Ventilator


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Manufacturers seek to ‘take pain away’

February 2, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor

YARMOUTH, Maine – The decision by Philips to discontinue its line of oxygen concentrators in the U.S. will leave a significant gap in the market, but manufacturers say they’re ramping up to meet increased demand, with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the CPAP recall.  Just prior to announcing it had agreed on the terms of a consent decree related to the recall, Philips announced on Jan. 25 that it was discontinuing sales for 19 products, including the EverFlo home...

Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, Oxygen Concentrator, Philips Respironics, React Health, Rhythm Healthcare


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Belluscura announces increased offer 

January 22, 2024HME News Staff

LONDON and PLANO, Texas – The boards of Belluscura and TMT Acquisition have announced the terms of a recommended share offer to be made by Belluscura for the whole of the issued and to be issued share capital of TMT Acquisition. Having regard to the Belluscura share price in recent weeks, the companies have agreed on an increase in the number of new Belluscura shares to be offered in exchange for TMT acquisition shares. The value of a TMT acquisition share under the offer, based on the closing...

Belluscura, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Oxygen Concentrator


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Belluscura increases visibility

April 21, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor

LONDON and PLANO, Texas – Belluscura has secured a marketing agreement with the popular website GoodRx to increase direct-to-consumer sales of its X-PLOR portable oxygen concentrator.  Santa Monica, Calif.-based GoodRx operates www.goodrx.com and a mobile app that allow users to compare drug prices and get free coupons that they can use at the pharmacy. The company, which also operates a telehealth platform, estimates it has helped Americans save $35 billion on health care and prescription...

Belluscura, GoodRx, Oxygen Concentrator, X-PLOR


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Baxter announces vent correction 

March 14, 2023HME News Staff

DEERFIELD, Ill. – Baxter International has issued an urgent medical device correction for the Life2000 ventilation system due to the potential for patient oxygen desaturation (low blood oxygen) events that may occur under certain conditions when the system is connected with a third-party oxygen concentrator. Low oxygen saturation may lead to symptoms like shortness of breath, confusion, rapid heart rate or bluish skin. Among the most vulnerable patients, death, life-threatening events or permanent...

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React Health acquires Invacare’s respiratory assets 

February 7, 2023HME News Staff

SARASOTA, Fla. - React Health subsidiary Ventec Systems has acquired Invacare’s respiratory assets.  Invacare announced late last year that it would be exiting the respiratory market.  “With this acquisition, React Health is well positioned to continue to support the end-to-end care of patients with cardiology, sleep and respiratory illnesses, in partnership with physicians and providers of diagnostic and needed therapies,” said Tom Pontzius, president of operations...

Oxygen Concentrator, React Health, Respiratory


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Popularity of EVs squeezes access to compound used in concentrators 

January 25, 2023HME News Staff

BOULDER, Colo. – As the demand for electric vehicles has grown, the price of lithium, which, when combined with zeolite, allows oxygen concentrators to generate oxygen at purity levels of 90% or higher, is experiencing significant increases, according to a bulletin from Quality Biomedical.  Lithium is a key component of the batteries used in EVs and certain sieve beds of oxygen concentrators.  “As the demand for EVs has increased, the price of lithium is experiencing significant...

Oxygen Concentrator, Quality Biomedical


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Providers see Invacare’s exit as another limitation 

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Providers see Invacare’s exit as another limitation 

December 9, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

YARMOUTH, Maine – In a year in which supply chain challenges and a major recall have brought challenge after challenge for HME providers, the news that Invacare is pulling out of the respiratory market has left some worried about a new hurdle in obtaining equipment.  “It’s been a rough year,” said Todd Flesch, co-founder of the Charlotte, N.C.-based Portable Oxygen Solutions. “I don’t know that there’s one company out there currently that can pick...

HomeFill, Invacare, Oxygen Concentrator


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CAIRE expands portfolio in Latin America

May 2, 2022HME News Staff

BALL GROUND, Ga. – CAIRE expects to make its Companion 5 and NewLife Intensity 10 stationary oxygen concentrators available in Latin America in July, following anticipated approval by the Brazilian Health Regularity Agency (Anvisa). “During the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic oxygen shortages throughout South America have underscored the need to expand CAIRE’s portfolio of equipment available to providers to serve patients prescribed oxygen as they are discharged from the...

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CQRC warns of possible access issues

March 18, 2022HME News Staff

WASHINGTON – Patient access to in-home respiratory care may be negatively impacted if a shortage in semiconductor chips is not addressed, warns the Council for Council for Quality Respiratory Care.  In a March 15 letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, CQRC and nine other respiratory care stakeholders urge the administration to use its authority to help address the shortage of semiconductor chips used in home...

Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC), Oxygen Concentrator, Respiratory Therapy, semiconductor chips


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