CleveMed Awarded Sleep Diagnostic Services Agreement with Premier, Inc.

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Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) June 11, 2014

Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (CleveMed) has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for Sleep Diagnostic Services with Premier, Inc. Effective June 1, 2014, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for CleveMed sleep monitoring products and services, including SleepView® monitor and cloud-based software.

"We are very excited to work with Premier to further expand our offerings nationwide and solidify our leading position in the Home Sleep Testing market. The number of SleepView studies performed by healthcare providers nationwide has more than tripled in 2013 when compared to 2012. The growth is expected to continue over the coming few years because our solutions help healthcare organizations fulfill the three aims crucial for success: improve patient experience with easy-to-use home testing, lower insurance carrier costs, and speed care delivery with web-based diagnosis and care coordination", said Hani Kayyali, CleveMed president.

CleveMed offers a number of portable products that cover the entire spectrum of sleep diagnostic needs: Sapphire PSG™ is a 22 - channel wireless polysomnography system for in-lab testing, SleepScout™ is a 9 - channel wireless system for inpatient assessment of sleep disordered breathing, and SleepView®, which is the smallest and lightest home sleep testing product on the market. SleepView® is an 8 - channel system for OSA diagnosis in the home that interfaces with http://www.ClevemedSleepview.com, a HIPAA compliant, cloud-based portal software that can integrate with EMR's via REST API or HL7 messaging.

About Premier, Inc.
Premier, Inc. is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 3,000 U.S. hospitals and 110,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and advisory and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier, a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient, plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. Please visit Premier's news and investor sites on http://www.premierinc.com; as well as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Foursquare and Premier's blog for more information about the company.

About CleveMed
CleveMed is a leader in portable sleep monitoring and web-based technologies. CleveMed has developed a growing range of products that address the needs of patients with sleep disorders, including Sapphire PSG™, SleepScout™, SleepView® and SleepViewSM web portal. CleveMed's cloud-based solutions allow home sleep studies to be initiated directly from the physician's practice, which is convenient to patients, speeds the diagnosis and treatment for providers, and reduces healthcare costs to payers. For more information, please visit http://www.CleveMed.com (Follow us on Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn, and Facebook). SleepView is a registered trademark and a service mark; and Sapphire PSG and SleepScout are trademarks of Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. of Cleveland, OH.