Tag: sleep apnea therapy
What's in it for Mario?
May 15, 2025Liz Beaulieu, Editor
Back in the day, when Theresa Flaherty and I were working under Jim Sullivan and Mike Moran, they had a saying, “What’s in it for Mario?”
This is something they’d encourage us to keep in the back of our minds as we were reporting on and writing stories. The Mario in question was Mario LaCute, a now retired business exec who used to head up Seely Medical in Ohio. The point being, when news happens, always ask yourself, what’s the impact on the HME provider?
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Number of remotely monitored patients spiked in 2016, according to Berg Insight
February 14, 2017HME News Staff
GOTHENBURG, Sweden - The number of remotely monitored patients grew by 44% to 7.1 million in 2016, according a new report from Berg Insight.What's more, the number of remotely monitored patients will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 47.9% to reach 50.2 million by 2021, says the market research firm.The two main applications in the market are monitoring patients with sleep therapy devices and monitoring patients with implantable cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices. Berg Insight...
New sleep apnea device hits U.S. market
January 17, 2017HME News Staff
BRISBANE, Australia - Oventus on Jan. 16 announced the U.S. launch of O2Vent, what it calls the first and only sleep disorder device cleared by the Food and Drug Administration that provides relief for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea via a unique, separate airway that avoids multiple sites of obstruction, including the nose, soft palate and the tongue. The device, which uses 3D printing technologies and is customized for each patient from medical-grade titanium, works by stabilizing the...