The regulatory pressure just keeps mounting on Invacare. Invacare, a manufacturer of homecare durable medical equipment products – wheelchairs and respiratory, announced yesterday that the FDA had asked them to negotiate and agree to a consent decree of injunction. This relates to previous findings and disclosures at the Invacare’s Elyria facility which also serves as [...]
About Frank Barlin
Frank is the founder and managing partner at Sibaya. He provides recognized leadership in homecare consulting and has advised firms ranging in size from those listed on the NYSE and the LSE to early stage startups. Frank’s international experience is broad-based, having spent his professional life based in Europe, the United States and South Africa. Prior to founding Sibaya in 2002 he was European Vice President for a publicly traded healthcare company. In addition he has held various country general management positions and directorships. Recent home healthcare projects include European business development, acquisition strategy and advice, competitive benchmarking, Asian outsourcing and turnaround management. He works out of the Paris office.
wHing France – The Next Innovation In Consumer Friendly Power Wheelchairs?
The new wHing powered wheelchair, designed and built in France may offer wheelchair users several distinct advantages over current products in the French and perhaps other markets. This is the second innovative French powered wheelchair in the recent past – the first being Topchair which we blogged about here. wHing was developed by SEGULA Technologies [...]
To all Homecare CEO’s – What RONA and IRR Don’t Tell You In Outsourcing Decisions
Don’t forget to include the following in your next calculation: The cost of the knowledge that is being lost, possibly forever. The cost of being unable to innovate in future, because critical knowledge has been lost. The consequent cost of its current business being destroyed by competitors emerging who can make a better product at [...]
It’s November 14 And It’s World Diabetes Day
Frederick Banting and Charles Best, were instrumental in the discovery of insulin in 1922, and have saved millions of lives since then. So while there is cause to celebrate there is also the realization that there is no cure for this life altering disease which often attacks the young with type 1 and catches others [...]
The Emerging Private Homecare Market – People Pay For Design
Healthcare is often a forced lifestyle choice – if that makes sense. Patients often have a choice on what level of healthcare and certainly what healthcare products they they use. Of course some people unfortunately have none. If however you do have a choice then the choices are getting better as manufacturers start to produce [...]
Who Said It Can’t Be Done – Vilgo French Homecare Company Grows With 100% France Production
Despite the rush to Asian outsourcing trend and the “stereotype” of expensive French manufacturing, HMS-Vilgo a French based manufacturer makes “100% made in France” medical / homecare beds. Not only that, CEO Patrick Jude has grown the business from about 1000 beds to 24000 beds per year from 1997 and remarks that they have used [...]
Sign Of The Times In The Homecare Industry (Gentle Downsizing)
In this latest news, Invacare has released 50 employees, most from their Elyria headquarters. They are not the only company in the homecare / mobility industry to do so recently. Invacare maintains that dismissed staff are “office workers” and spokesperson Lara Mahoney is quoted as saying that they are “just ensuring that we’re running as [...]
China v USA
Update – The US Senate passes the bill. If it does not happen now, then it is just a question of time? China has threatened the US with a trade war if the US law-makers pass a bill currently under discussion that will force the value of the Chinese RMB to rise against the US [...]
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