Med-Tech Innovation Industry News


CPAP device sales set to more than double


The North American respiratory and anaesthesia disposables market is forecast to more than double by 2019. The sector has registered annual growth of approximately 6% in the past decade. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) masks, humidifier chambers and closed circuits are anticipated to be highest growth sectors in terms of volume. The substantial growth is being fuelled by a widening of reimbursement coverage, a 2% increase in reimbursement prices and a surge in use of CPAP machines. The market is also affected by the changing preference for disposables over reusables and improved designs of CPAP masks, which have increased comfort and wearability. The market report by ABMRG, “North America Respiratory Disposable and Anesthesia Disposable Device Market – Growth Trends and Potential 2006–2019,” analyses this device market for the Continent and individual countries, the United States and Canada. www.abmrg.com


Wound innovation centre opens


The Welsh Wound Innovation Centre, based at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, was officially opened in September. The new multi-million pound centre will


conduct clinical and scientific research to develop


pioneering new wound


treatments and products. The centre is a partnership between the Welsh


Government, Welsh NHS and leading Welsh universities and it will work with the private sector.


Chronic wounds cost an estimated £42 billion globally each year and represent 5% of the UK’s total health budget. The Centre’s Director is Professor Keith Harding, head of Cardiff University School of Medicine’s Wound Healing Research Unit. Source: www.walesonline.co.uk


Oral diagnostic device


Following funding from the Technology Strategy Board, Zilico has begun development work on a device that uses electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in the detection and diagnosis of oral cancer. The funding, which comes from the Biomedical Catalyst Feasibility and Smart Funds, will help support in-depth analysis of the UK market, a product specification and a protocol for a multi-centred trial.


The University of Sheffield’s Professor of Oral Medicine, Martin Thornhill, presented on the use of EIS in the detection and diagnosis of oral cancer and dysplasia at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Oral Medicine, held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, last year. The study on 50 patients was the result of collaboration between the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Zilico. His presentation, “Use of Impedance Spectroscopy to Detect Potentially Malignant Oral Lesions,” has been accepted for publication in Nanomedicine. www.innovateuk.org


www.med-techinnovation.com Time to applaud technology


Isansys won Best New Medtech Development Programme, sponsored by Milton Park, at the OBN Awards 2014. These awards celebrate significant


achievements in the bioscience and medical technology sector over the past year. OBN is a not-for-profit business network that brings together emerging companies, corporate partners and investors.


Keith Errey, Isansys’ CEO receiving the award from Andrew Barlow, Commercial Director of Milton Park


Isansys provides a 24/7 real-time patient monitoring and analysis platform. Earlier this year, the company won two national Small Business Research Initiative contracts, which enabled it to expand its technology into the areas of patient safety and cancer. Its surveillance system is being extended to provide warning of sepsis in home-based patients. This could benefit some of the 20,000 UK patients a year undergoing chemotherapy, who are at increased risk of developing this complication. Intelligent Ultrasound won Best Emerging Medtech


Company, sponsored by The BioHub Birmingham. The company develops and sells products and services that make ultrasound imaging a more effective diagnostic tool, including software solutions used in monitoring foetal growth and image-guided surgery systems. For details of the other winners announced at an awards dinner held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on 2 October visit the website: www.obn.org.uk


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