A person's body sends countless silent messages that health care professionals need to know for optimal diagnosis and treatment. A Cleveland company creates high-tech ways to capture those messages.
Cleveland Medical Devices, or CleveMed, specializes in miniaturized wireless telemetry, physiological monitoring and rehabilitation devices. Its products are designed to help people with sleep disorders and movement disorders; they also are used in research and academic settings.
Hallmarks of CleveMed products are accuracy, portability and ease of use, which the company says makes them particularly useful in homes, hospital rooms, private practices and the like all over the world. The company holds 15 patents.
The company says it is close to launching "clinically deployable" monitors that record movement, restore control and enhance function for disorders such as Parkinson's disease, stroke and cerebral palsy.
Earlier this year CleveMed finalized a license agreement with a spinoff company, NeuroWave Systems Inc., transferring anesthesia monitoring and seizure detection technologies. NeuroWave is the only company selected by both the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense to develop seizure detection devices to monitor patients exposed to chemical warfare agents.
"The spin-off and license is a testament to the maturity of our products and success of our businesses," Robert N. Schmidt, chairman of both CleveMed and NeuroWave, says.
CleveMed was founded in 1990 and has one other spinoff to its name: Flocel Inc., a maker of in-vitro blood brain barrier testing equipment.
The company, which has 40 employees, is expanding its sales force around the U.S. to increase sales of its new home sleep apnea testing device, the SleepView. This new device and web portal will allow primary care physicians to conduct sleep tests where the patient can sleep in their own bed.
Source: Carole Nittskoff, CleveMed
Writer: Gabriella Jacobs