Tag: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
InfuSystem to offer Genadyne’s wound care line
April 27, 2023HME News Staff
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – InfuSystem Holdings has entered into a national distribution agreement with Genadyne Biotechnologies to offer its negative pressure wound therapy systems and supplies. InfuSystem will offer Genadyne’s complete line of wound care products, including its most advanced XLR8 Plus NPWT Pump, which delivers advanced variable pressure capabilities with a gradual wave, in conjunction with Genadyne’s proprietary XLR8 Dressing Kit with Silver, an antimicrobial contact...
InfuSystem partners with Sanara MedTech on new wound care partnership
November 3, 2022HME News Staff
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – InfuSystem Holdings has partnered with Sanara MedTech to create SI Wound Care, LLC, a partnership to enable InfuSystem to offer products, including Cork Medical’s negative pressure wound therapy devices and supplies and Sanara’s advanced wound care product line to new customers through the jointly controlled entity. “Over the past few years, we have built our NPWT business as a turnkey solution with a focus on offering high quality options to patients...
MedTech, Cork announce strategic partnership
March 3, 2022HME News Staff
INDIANAPOLIS – MedTech Solutions Group will now manage Cork Medical’s negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) business in all countries except the United States as part of a new strategic partnership. “We are excited to have MTSG as our partner in the international commercialization of the Nisus NPWT system,” said Josh Boller, vice president of sales at Cork Medical, a global manufacturer of wound care technologies. “The MTSG team will help us broaden our scope of improved...
ExtriCare names new director of clinical services
September 29, 2021HME News Staff
PHILADELPHIA –ExtriCare USA, a manufacturer of negative pressure wound therapy devices, has hired Matthew Cranfill, RN, BSN, WOCN, as director of clinical services. “I’m thrilled to be joining ExtriCARE USA’s forward-thinking team at such a pivotal time in wound care,” said Cranfill. “There’s a lot of potential for growth and innovation in the NPWT market, and I look forward to applying my clinical perspective to enhance the outcomes for the clients, clinicians...
Senators introduce bill backing disposable NPWT
July 19, 2021HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., have introduced a bill to put disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices on a level playing field with non-disposable NPWT devices. Specifically, the Better Wound Care at Home Act would standardize payment methodology nationally by applying a neutral wage index for payments made to home health agencies; clarify that payments to HHAs for disposable NPWT devices are to be made for the device itself, not accompanying...
Joerns, Medela team up
April 12, 2021HME News Staff
CHARLOTTE and MCHENRY, Ill. – Joerns Healthcare has announced it will distribute Medela’s negative pressure wound therapy product line on a national basis to the skilled nursing and long-term acute care hospital setting. Through the agreement, Joerns will expand its wound care portfolio to include the full Medela line of negative pressure wound therapy products, including the Invia Liberty and Invia Motion 60 NPWT Systems. “Joerns is excited...
Medela publishes peer-reviewed study of NPWT device
November 12, 2020HME News Staff
MCHENRY, Ill. - Medela's Invia Liberty negative pressure wound therapy system is able to re-establish the prescribed pressure, while simultaneously clearing 89% of the fluid in less than 20 minutes, the manufacturer said in a peer-reviewed study published in a supplement to Wounds. Due to Invia's ability to remove exudate more efficiently and re-establish a patent system, it was also able to return the wound to the prescribed pressure more quickly and maintain the set pressure at the wound site more...
InfuSystem enters NPWT market
February 11, 2020HME News Staff
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. - InfuSystem Holdings, a provider of infusion pumps and related DME support services, has added negative pressure wound therapy to its Integrated Therapy Service platform. InfuSystem's solutions will now include providing DME, overseeing logistics, supplying biomedical services and managing third-party billing for the product category. The provider added NPWT after a “premier global health care services company (sought) out InfuSystem and (its) expertise in providing...
KCI sells to 3M
May 3, 2019HME News Staff
SAN ANTONIO and NEW YORK - A consortium of funds led by Apax Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Acelity and its KCI subsidiaries worldwide to 3M for about $6.725 billion.
KCI markets a broad range of negative pressure wound therapy, specialty surgical and advanced wound care dress products in about 90 countries.
“Today, KCI embarks upon a new era,” said R. Andrew Eckert, CEO of Acelity. “Backed by the resources and expertise of 3M, KCI will be able to...
KCI, Highmark forge performance-based deal
December 20, 2018HME News Staff
SAN ANTONIO - KCI, a provider of advanced wound management, and Highmark, an insurer, have entered into an agreement for the KCI iOn Progress Remote Therapy Monitoring Program. Used in conjunction with the Activ.A.C. Therapy System, the program provides monitoring, engagement and adherence, according to a press release. The agreement is the first of its kind for negative pressure wound therapy and creates a performance-based payment structure to reduce total wound care costs, according to a press...