Peter Byloos has been appointed CEO of Handicare with immediate effect. This follows the recent resignation of Per Gunnar Borhaug toward the end of 2011. Peter Byloos has extensive medical device experience having been former CR Bard European President as well as having held senior positions at Arrow and Stryker. “Peter’s combined international and industrial [...]
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FDA Targets Invacare At Elyria, Ohio Facility
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 [...]
Handicare CEO, Per Gunnar Borhaug Moves On
Per Gunnar Borhaug, CEO of Handicare has announced that he will be leaving the company at the end of 2011. Borhaug has been instrumental in taking Handicare from a 50 million Euro largely Norwegian company to a fully fledged 250 million Euro international player in the homecare and mobility industry. The board of Handicare is [...]
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 [...]
More From The French Homecare Market – Euromedis Announces Steady Growth in 2011 And Double Digit for 2012
Guest post from FG: Steady growth in 2011 for EUROMEDIS and 12% expected in 2012: After heavy restructuring, the manufacturing & distribution group for disposable medical supply and which operates the PARAMAT franchises in France, is not considering any new acquisitions, and is looking forward to grasp the benefits of both a 1,5 MEUR investment [...]
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