Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Spirometrix, an emerging technology healthcare company focused on research, development and commercialization of novel breath analysis devices for applications in disease diagnosis and management, announced today that its Fenom PRO™ Point-of-Care Breathalyzer has received CE marking and can now be sold in Europe.
Spirometrix Inc., founded in 2011 by Dr. Solomon Ssenyange and Ryan Leard as a personal mission to aid asthma patients in the management of their ailment, focuses on the development and commercialization of novel breath analysis devices for application in diagnosis and management of asthma. In recent years, non-invasive measurement and monitoring of the fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) in exhaled breath has become established as the biomarker of asthma. The sensor based technology was licensed from Professor Prabir Dutta’s innovative laboratories at The Ohio State University as the company was founded.
“The entire Spirometrix team has been working very diligently to achieve this significant milestone, and we believe that receiving CE mark will maintain our strong momentum toward commercialization,” said J. Dean Zikria, CEO of Spirometrix. “The Fenom PRO Point-of-Care Breathalyzer is the first-of-its-kind product in asthma that embraces several sensors and a digital ecosystem designed to effect documentation that may lead to enhanced clinical decision support.” The Spirometrix respiratory digital ecosystem includes data from other devices as well as the environment, such as local pollen count, local pollution index and air quality—which allow for algorithmic analysis that leads to pattern recognition and pattern management in asthma —for the first time, according to Zikria.
“FeNO monitoring in the management of asthma patients at the point of care has the potential to optimize asthma therapy, improve compliance of medication use and decrease the need for emergency visits and hospitalization,” added James Wolfe, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and a Scientific Advisor to Spirometrix. “It should be noted that both American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society have issued guidelines recommending FeNO testing for the assessment, management, and long-term monitoring of asthma.”
Source : finance.yahoo.com
