Bronze award for Innovation...
Midmark SleepView® Honored at Edison Awards   

VERSAILLES, Ohio (April 30, 2012) – The Midmark SleepView® Monitor/Portal has been recognized with a Bronze Award for most innovative product by the 2012 Edison Awards. SleepView was honored in the Science/Medical category, one of fifteen categories recognized by the Edison Awards. 

The Edison Awards, celebrating 25 years of honoring the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services, announced the 2012 winners at the sold-out April 26th event in New York City at the historic ballroom of New York’s famed Capitale. Hundreds of senior executives from some of the world’s most recognized companies gathered to acknowledge the hard work and commitment of all of the 2012 Edison Award winners. 

“Midmark strives to develop and introduce innovative solutions that meet the industry’s need for efficient and effective patient care,” said Tom Treon, senior product manager for Midmark. “SleepView sets a new benchmark in the testing and diagnosis of OSA. We are honored that our efforts have been recognized by the Edison Awards and we are thrilled to be in the company of the other industry-leading companies that were named Edison Award finalists.” 

Introduced in late 2011, the Midmark SleepView Monitor is the market’s smallest and lightest portable home sleep testing device for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) that meets the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s guidelines for a Type-III portable monitor. Midmark worked in partnership with Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (CleveMed) for licensing of the SleepView technology. 

SleepView allows patients to be tested for OSA in the comfort, convenience and privacy of their own home. When connected to the Midmark SleepView Portal, this system provides prescribing physicians with secure, HIPAA compliant online access to raw data or a bridge to registered polysomnographic technologists and board-certified sleep physicians who provide scoring, professional interpretation and treatment recommendations. 

OSA is a repeated interruption of normal breathing during sleep due to a collapse of the upper airway.  It is estimated to impact as many people as asthma and diabetes; yet, almost 90 percent of the population with the disease is undiagnosed and untreated. OSA does in fact hold serious health and economic consequences. Numerous studies link OSA to major chronic diseases such as stroke, heart failure, diabetes, obesity, hypertension and increased odds of serious car crash injuries.  Economic studies have also shown that people with untreated OSA have 200 percent higher healthcare costs than similar people without OSA. 

The ballot of nominees for the Edison Awards is judged by more than 3,000 senior business executives and academics from across the nation whose votes acknowledge the Finalists’ success in meeting the award criteria of Concept, Value, Delivery and Impact. The Panel includes members of the powerful Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), which has been partnered with the Edison Awards since 2009. 

The members of the Edison Awards Steering Committee are senior executives with diverse marketing, scientific, and business backgrounds who monitor the development and successful launch of innovative products each year. The Committee is responsible for bestowing the annual Edison Achievement Awards and serves as a guidepost in developing the list of nominees that is presented to the Edison Award judges. 

The 2012 Edison Awards are sponsored by Nielsen, Discovery Communications, Science Channel, USA Today, CSRware, and applepeak. For more information about the Edison Awards and a list of past winners, visit http://www.edisonawards.com. 

For more information on Midmark’s SleepView, please visit www.midmark.com/sleepview. 

About Midmark

Midmark Corporation brings efficient patient care to millions of people each day around the world. Midmark is committed to providing innovative products and services for the healthcare professional, integrating value-added technology into everything it does. By focusing on ways to constantly improve physician workflows, Midmark is redefining the future of the clinical space from the examination room to the procedure room. Its line of Midmark and Ritter products have become the industry standards in medical practices of all sizes, helping improve the patient experience while improving safety, ergonomics, productivity and profitability for the practice.  Midmark’s line of digital diagnostic solutions, allow fast and easy capture, interpretation and retrieval of patient information for single practitioners to large physician groups and offer EHR/EMR integration. With more than 1,500 teammates worldwide, Midmark’s teammates are dedicated to making a positive difference in the practice of healthcare. Headquartered in Versailles, Ohio, Midmark Corporation maintains four subsidiaries in the United States. To support international healthcare markets, it holds subsidiaries in France, India and Italy. For more information about Midmark, visit midmarkclinicalsolutions.com or midmark.com. 

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