DIVE INTO DIALYSIS: NxStage Aims To Transform Home Hemodialysis Into $2bn Market
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
For the second part of Clinica’s three-part special series on the dialysis market, Reed Miller talked to the CEO of NxStage Medical, a Massachusetts-based company that markets the NxStage System One, which the firm touts as the only “truly portable” hemodialysis system FDA-cleared for home hemodialysis and home nocturnal hemodialysis. As the company is set to face competition for home hemodialysis customers from upstarts like Quanta, profiled in part 1 of this series, and giants like Fresenius Medical Care, the subject of part 3, NxStage is planning to use home hemodialysis as a “beachhead” to invade other, more lucrative markets
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