Philips - New acute care ventilator

Anyone who saw it at the AARC, or have an idea what it will look like?

 

I saw it. It looks like an Esprit covered in used tampons. I hear Terd Schaefer, Lauren Seymour and Bud Reeves designed in their own. It's destined for greatness. My options suddenly look good!!!

Sense and Simplicity

 

LMAO!

 

Great opportunity to gain ground while PB is struggling with the agency, and some of their
best engineers have joined this much healthier corporation. Exciting if Philips will be able to putin all their legacy technology into It. Can't wait to hear and see more of it!

 

You will still be waiting this time next year!

 

The 680? Got a sneak preview but wow factor missing.
V60 on steroids. What's the deal?

 

No news are good news. Bad news like 980 travels fast.

 

This is nothing new with Philips. Same old technology put in a different box, marketed as new product. Trilogy is a Bipap on steroids and marketed as a critical care ventilator. Doesn't work well on sick kids but does on COPD adults.

 

Still waiting! Where is the little thing?

 

Dutch electronics and health care giant Philips remains in ill health
Blog Entry: December 18, 2014 2:31 PM | Author: SCOTT SUTTELL
Dutch electronics and health care giant Philips, which has had major problems at its Highland Heights manufacturing plant, remains in ill health.

So says The Wall Street Journal, which looks at the state of Philips in the wake of the company’s plan to spend $1.2 billion to buy Volcano Corp., which makes imaging catheters used to look inside organs. The company’s health care revenues would immediately increase by 3.5%, “and Volcano should return a positive operating income by 2015 and be profitable by 2016, the company said,” according to The Journal.

“Philips hasn’t specified the benefits from the deal,” the story notes. Analysts say it “needs about $1 billion in net-present-value from cross-selling products, technology sharing and cost-cutting to meet its (profit) target. That looks a tough ask.”

Either way, the newspaper says, “Philips still has more to do in addressing fundamental problems in its health care business.” And so far, “the vital signs aren’t good.”

The Journal says Philips “derives about 40% of its total revenues and more than half of its operating income from health care. But the industry is suffering from anemic growth. And manufacturing problems in Philips’s Cleveland plant continue to plague the business. Sales are forecast to shrink 1.6% for Philips’s health care business this year, according to analyst consensus, compared with a 0.8% growth rate last year and 6.4% in 2012.”

In addition, the paper reports, “global sales of health care equipment are expected to only marginally improve next year at best, analysts at J.P. Morgan said. Governments in developed markets are reigning in health care costs while growth in emerging markets is slowing.”

 

More layoffs coming Ladies!

 

Will be launched as V800 later this year, and be the great gig in sky!

 

Carlsbad recently got a Warning letter from the FDA. Does that mean anything for this project?

 

You bet ..... your sneaky bastard

 

Correct assumption time flies what is this years prediction will V offer winning proposition CE n 510k schedule FDA situation

 

Confusing thread.The truth is out there....

 

We'll kill the Viking unless it kills itself

 

Slow train coming (Rob Zd)

 

Derailed 980 soon in sight!

 

train in vain (Clash)