MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Big Changes for Local Technology Leader
Preventice Solutions, a medical technology company founded in Rochester in 2007, is being purchased by Boston Scientific for $925 million. Preventice has a product portfolio that includes the BodyGuardian family of remote, wearable cardiac monitors for adult and pediatric patients. BodyGuardian was created by Preventice in collaboration with research licensed from Mayo Clinic. "We have been humbled to provide thousands of physician practices with services based on near real-time clinical data to enable the diagnosis and management of more than one million cardiac patients, without needing to interrupt their daily activities," said Jon Otterstatter, chief executive officer of Preventice Solutions. "Boston Scientific has been a key investor in Preventice for more than five years and we believe the company has the commercial reach, diagnostics expertise and operational infrastructure to bring these advanced monitoring technologies to more patients worldwide."
HGA Wins National Design Competition
HGA won Healthcare Design Magazine’s national conceptual design competition calling for solutions to the future delivery of healthcare.
The firm secured the industry-leading Breaking Through award with their solution “Farm to Pharm”—a concept that imagines a health care system retooled to support the distribution of healthy food as a preventive individual and community- wide health measure where it's needed the most. The HGA team included Rochester natives Hal Henderson, the new office director Kim Jensen, and Maggie Sutton. Farm to Pharm merges pharmaceutical treatment with modified and fortified food. This refocuses investments from disease management to prevention and population health through personalized, in-home “Grow Sheets.” The second focus is on the numerous challenges of food education, access and distribution that span demographics and geographies. The solution creates economic opportunities in agricultural and biomedical fields while equalizing access through transportable, modular, food production and health-themed community centers called “Grow Hubs”.
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