US SALES FOR MEDICAL FIRM

The AGE

A small Melbourne medical-computer company is about to enter the lucrative United States sleep-disorder market with a $15 million-a-year export agreement. The company, Compumedics, is regarded as a world leader in producing technology for diagnosing sleep disorders, including sleep apnea, and previously sold equipment to NASA’s space shuttle program. Under the contract, it will sell and distribute monitoring computers to up to 1500 US sleep centres.