Salt Lake City, UT– April. 26, 2006 –Petersen Medical, a leading provider of home medical equipment and dedicated in-home professional service, today announced that the company will be the first provider of the Inogen One system for the state of Utah. The new lightweight product is the industry’s leading tank-free portable oxygen concentrator system. The Inogen One is designed to specifically help patients with limiting respiratory conditions breathe easier while enhancing their mobility and quality of life.
“The Inogen has improved my life enormously,” said Robert Kelly, an oxygen therapy patient who uses the Inogen One system. “It allows me to travel, visit my family more frequently, and do other activities that I’ve always enjoyed but until recent were too difficult to do.”
Named Frost & Sullivan’s Oxygen Concentrator Product of the Year, the Inogen One system defines a new category of oxygen devices. Prior to the Inogen One, the oxygen therapy market was limited in applying technological innovation to improve in-home respiratory patient care. Previous oxygen devices fulfilled clinical requirements and therapeutic functions, but patients were limited in their ability to lead more active lifestyles. Taking that into consideration, the Inogen One system was designed to act as a stationary and a portable device, and also engineered to give patients an opportunity for a more spontaneous and active life both at home, while traveling, or just performing menial tasks that were previously too difficult to complete.
“Petersen Medical is pleased to be the first provider of the Inogen One system for the state of Utah. The new Inogen system is a complete departure from current mainstream technologies of the past and redefines how oxygen therapy is delivered,” said Tom Bradley, CEO of Petersen Medical. “For qualifying patients, it replaces the large and inconvenient stationary concentrator systems and the less efficient portable devices that rely on oxygen tank replacements. Designed in conjunction with experts in PSA and conserver technology, the Inogen One system eliminates the need to choose between a stationary or portable oxygen system, giving patients much more freedom to conduct their lives the way they’d like to.”
The Inogen One’s ambulatory features have become very popular with patients and medical industry professionals. One particularly unique feature is the product’s Satellite Conserver, which extends the patient’s range by allowing oxygen to be delivered up to 100 feet from the device. The Satellite Conserver takes control of the conserving function, eliminating the need for the patient to remain close to the concentrator. This allows them to be mobile in their home without carrying the device from room to room. For example, the patient can leave the device at a central location within their home and still perform tasks in various rooms while still receiving an adequate supply of oxygen.
For providers, the system enables improved patient satisfaction. The Baby Boomer generation demands high quality in everything they purchase, and this generation is beginning to require more oxygen-related products. In addition, changes in government reimbursement policies, increasing operating costs, aging equipment, all add to the complexity of the oxygen provider's business. In an increasingly competitive marketplace due to rising heath care costs and the changing healthcare climate, the Inogen One system gives providers a product they can count on.
Petersen Medical is the first provider of the Inogen One system for the state of Utah, due to their partnership with EVO, the exclusive distributor of the Inogen nationwide. Inogen, a leading producer of oxygen therapy products, is the manufacture of the Inogen One system.
About Inogen
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Inogen was founded in 2001 to develop products that improve quality of life while increasing freedom and mobility for respiratory disease sufferers, primarily sufferers of COPD. Inogen has assembled a team of experienced healthcare entrepreneurs, skilled technologists, well-known clinicians and home healthcare veterans to produce innovative solutions to respiratory healthcare challenges. The Inogen team is passionate about their mission and committed to serving the unique needs of respiratory patients and providers. To learn more about Inogen, please visit www.inogen.net.
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