Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.(CPI), doing business as Guidant Cardiac Rhythm Management, manufactured implantable cardiac rhythm management devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators. It also sold insulin pumps controlled by microprocessors and various equipments to regulate heart rhythm. In addition, Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. developed therapies for the treatment of irregular heartbeats. The company was founded in 1971 and is based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Boston Scientific Corporation.

Pacesetter, Inc., a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories, is a company headquartered in the United States that manufactures, and distributes cardiovascular and implantable neuro stimulation medical devices.

Proteus Digital Health® is creating a new category of pharmaceuticals: Digital Medicines. Digital Medicines includes drugs that communicate when they’ve been taken, wearable sensors that capture physiologic response, applications that support patient self-care and physician decision making and data analytics to serve the needs of doctors and health systems. The goal of Digital Medicines is to empower patients and their families, enable physicians and health systems to more effectively manage risk and ensure that outcomes are reliably achieved.

BG Medicine, Inc. is a life sciences company. It engages in developing and delivering innovative solutions for healthcare providers that provide insight and transform the clinical care of heart failure and related disorders. The firm distributes products such as BGM Galectin-3 to clinical laboratories, hospitals, and healthcare providers. The company was founded in February 2000 by Jan van der Greef and is headquartered in Foxboro, MA.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded in 1896). Among independent teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center consistently ranks in the top three recipients of biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Research funding totals nearly $200 million annually. BIDMC researchers run more than 850 active sponsored projects and 200 clinical trials. The Harvard-Thorndike General Clinical Research Center, the oldest clinical research laboratory in the United States, has been located on this site since 1973.

St. Jude Medical, Inc. was an American global medical device company headquartered in Little Canada, Minnesota, U.S., a suburb of Saint Paul. The company had more than 20 principal operations and manufacturing facilities worldwide with products sold in more than 100 countries. Its major markets include the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The company was named after Jude the Apostle, the patron saint of lost causes.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides near-comprehensive healthcare services to eligible military veterans at VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country; several non-healthcare benefits including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, education assistance, home loans, and life insurance; and provides burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members at 135 national cemeteries.

NewPace Ltd. develops a novel implantable subcutaneous string defibrillator. It is used for the prevention of cardiac arrest. The company was founded by Robert S. Fishel in 2012 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Sorin CRM SAS designs and manufactures implantable pacemakers and defibrillators. It offers ICDs, leads, holter equipment, and electrophysiology catheters. The company was founded on July 25, 1977 and is headquartered in Clamart, France.

Biotronik (Biotronik SE & Co. KG; Biotronik Worldwide) is a privately held multinational biomedical technology company headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The company offers complete solutions for diagnosis, treatment, and therapy support in the areas of cardiac rhythm management, electrophysiology and vascular intervention. In the area of cardiac rhythm management, Biotronik Home Monitoring® uses telemonitoring technology to provide doctors with up-to-date information for implant patients.

EBR Systems, Inc. engages in the development of implantable systems for wireless tissue stimulation. Its WiCS Wireless Cardiac Stimulation technology helps address the significant opportunity to eliminate cardiac pacing leads. The company was founded by Richard E. Riley and Debra Sheryl Echt in 2003 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

CVRx is a medical device company that develops implantable technology for the treatment of high blood pressure. Its products include Rheos implantable pulse generator that provides control and delivery of the activation energy; and Rheos carotid sinus leads, which conducts activation energy from the Rheos implantable pulse generator to the left and right carotid arteries. The company also offers a Rheos programmer system that communicates with the Rheos pulse generator. CVRx was founded in 2001 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Transoma Medical, Inc., headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a medical technology company engaged in developing, manufacturing and distributing implantable, wireless diagnostic and monitoring systems. Transoma is focused specifically on diagnostic and monitoring technology and dedicated to providing physicians with information needed to accurately and quickly diagnose unexplained, infrequent symptoms and to monitor changing, often asymptomatic complex arrhythmias.\nTransoma has an extensive technology platform based on more than 20 years experience in developing implantable wireless diagnostic systems for use in biomedical research. These innovative tools have played a key role in drug discovery, pre-clinical evaluation of safety and efficacy, and other academic and government basic research. Customers have turned to DSI for more accurate, timely physiological data, highly humane research practices, and faster times to market. In 2003 the Patient Management division was formed utilizing this proven technology platform and paving the way for the formation of Transoma Medical.

Catheter Precision, Inc. engages in the provision of biological cardiovascular implants. It offers a medical device that focuses on cardiovascular diseases. The company is headquartered in Mt. Olive, NJ.

Part of BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, Biotronik AG is a Swiss company located in Bulach that manufactures devices for vascular intervention and electrotherapy of heart.\nThe company says this about itself: BIOTRONIK is a leading medical device company that has been developing trusted and innovative cardiovascular and endovascular solutions for more than 50 years. Driven by a purpose to perfectly match technology with the human body, BIOTRONIK innovations deliver care that saves and improves the lives of millions diagnosed with heart and blood vessel diseases every year. BIOTRONIK is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and represented in over 100 countries.

Pie Medical Imaging BV, part of Esaote SpA, is a company headquartered in the Netherlands that develops medical imaging software solutions.

UMC Utrecht Holding BV engages in utilization and commercialization of academic researches. It offers research support and training services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht operates as medical research centre. The company is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.