Disrupting Ultrasound
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
In ultrasound, small companies are few and far between; here, capital equipment companies rarely get venture backing, and the diversity of clinical segments that ultrasound serves requires sellers to have both large technical and marketing resources. But small companies like SonoSite, with new high-performing and lower-cost hand-held devices hope to disrupt the big-company, radiology-oriented status quo. The small companies are carving out some new non-radiology markets--guidance for catheter insertion, emergency medicine, Ob/Gyn and primary care--by positioning ultrasound as a new kind of triage tool.
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