Cameron Health Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Cameron Health believes that the market for implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) is underpenetrated because of the complexity involved in implanting and programming current devices. The company's cardiologist founders created an implantable device that effectively terminates ventricular defibrillation, without using leads that contact the heart directly. Heart leads are the weakest link of current devices, since they can break, become dislodged, or incur infection, Cameron's Health device, which can be implanted subcutaneously in a ten minute procedure should help electrophysiologists handle a higher volume of patients and enable cardiologists to get a share of the procedures as well.