Invacare Corp., Elyria, Ohio, has received its fourth EDI Innovation Award from Enterprise Development, Cleveland, for the gearless-brushless motor in its Arrow Storm Series power chair.

Sunrise Medical, Longmont, Colo., launched an electronic business site on the World Wide Web in July. Targeted to home medical equipment providers, the Web site (www.sunlinkweb.com) offers detailed order-tracking, inventory availability, serial number history, pricing and invoicing information. "[HME providers] can now access via the Web on a real-time basis the same detailed data they previously had to call our customer service department to obtain," said Richard Chandler, chairman and president.

In other news, the company has won a bronze in the 1999 Industrial Design Excellence Awards for its Quickie XTR manual wheelchair. Earlier this year, the same chair won a gold at the Medical Design & Manufacturing Conference.

LifeSleep Systems, San Francisco, received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market its PillowPositive as a product designed to reduce symptoms of mild obstructive sleep apnea.

Mallinckrodt Inc., St. Louis, received accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission to run continuing education programs for nurses and respiratory therapists. The company can now award credits to health care professionals who attend its courses.