Philips Buys Heart Imaging Tech Firm Set Up By Biosense Founder
Executive Summary
Philips is bulking-up its image-guided therapy portfolio with the acquisition of EPD Solutions, which has a recently CE-marked cardiac imaging and navigation system for ablation procedures to treat heart arrhythmias. EPD was founded by serial inventor and entrepreneur, Shlomo Ben-Haim, the man behind Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster business.
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