Clarius Mobile Health
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| Founded 📆 | September 30, 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Clarius Mobile Health is a company that designs and manufactures portable ultrasound devices, and more specifically, wireless.[1] ultrasound used for diagnostic purposes. The company merged the power of mobile phones[2] and other mobile devices with a system on chip[3] technology to provide ultrasound imaging with an image quality[4] comparable to traditional cart-based ultrasound systems that have been on the market for over 30 years.
Clarius received it's first 510(k) clearance to sell it's devices into the United States in December 2016.[5]
History[edit]
Clarius was founded in 2014 by a group of ultrasound innovators[6] who previously founded other Pacific Northwest ultrasound companies, namely Ultrasonix (acquired by Analogic 2013)[7] and SonoSite (acquired by FujiFilm 2011)[8], in the late 1990's and early 2000's. At the time when the company was created, ultrasound systems were already miniaturized into laptop like devices which could be carried or docked on a rolling trolley hospital cart, typically consuming 30-50 Watts of power while imaging. Because ultrasound machines were typically plugged into AC mains, there was less initiative in the semiconductor industry to produce components, namely for the transmission and reception of the ultrasound signal, that were low enough power to be placed in a battery operated handheld unit.
The company helped leverage some of the first lower-power integrated circuits[9], as well as novel signal and image processing methods to develop a wireless handheld ultrasound device that had the same performance capabilities, with respect to the number of transducer elements and ADCs, when compared to traditional cart based ultrasound systems.
Ultimately, Clarius created a range of wireless ultrasound devices that make use of both WiFi and Bluetooth technologies to capture and send ultrasound images in real-time to consumer devices such as Apple's iPhone or the variety of Android phones and tablets that exist on the market. Specialities in which the Clarius devices can be used include Emergency Medicine[10] , Anesthesia[11], Primary Care[12], and Extreme Settings[13]
Commercialization[edit]
Clarius started shipping product in January 2017, soon after their FDA clearance in late 2016. After one year of commercialization, the company had delivered over 2000 units to end users and partners.
Partnerships[edit]
- In 2017, Clarius and Arthrex, a privately held company specializing in surgical instruments and devices, partnered[14] to bring the Synergy MSK ultrasound device to market. The Synergy product is aimed at orthopedic surgeons and other practitioners performing surgical and rehabilitation procedures.
- In 2018, Clarius and Hologic, a public women's health company, partnered[15] to bring the Viera Breast ultrasound device to market. The Viera product is aimed at breast surgeons and radiologists performing surgical and diagnostic procedures.
References[edit]
- ↑ Lesage, Anne-Cecile; Garbey, Marc (2017). Augmenting a Wireless Portable Ultrasound Imaging with a real-time Hemodynamics Solver. Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE. doi:10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-51. eISSN 2471-7819. ISBN 978-1-5386-1324-5.
- ↑ "This Mobile Ultrasound Startup Is Reshaping A $6 Billion Healthcare Market". www.forbes.com. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
- ↑ "Clarius Takes Ultrasounds Further". www.embedded-computing.com. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
- ↑ Lundin J, Dumont G (2017). "Medical mobile technologies – what is needed for a sustainable and scalable implementation on a global scale?". Global Health Action. 10 (sup3): 1344046. doi:10.1080/16549716.2017.1344046. PMC 5786339. PMID 28838308.
- ↑ "510(k) Premarket Notification". www.fda.gov.
- ↑ "This Handheld Ultrasound Scanner Could Be the Next Stethoscope". www.smithsonianmag.com.
- ↑ "Analogic Signs Agreement to Acquire Ultrasonix Medical Corporation, Supplier of Advanced Ultrasound Solutions". www.analogic.com.
- ↑ "FujiFilm Holdings Announces Agreement to Acquire Sonosite, Inc". www.sonosite.com.
- ↑ "Clarius Case Study". www.avnet.com.
- ↑ Liu, Rachel; Moore, Christopher; Tayal, Vivek (August 2017). "Ultrasound Program Management". Ultrasound Program Management: A Comprehensive Resource for Administrating Point-of-Care, Emergency, and Clinical Ultrasound. Springer International Publishing. pp. 145–176. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63143-1_12. ISBN 978-3-319-63143-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Sadeghi, Neda; Gadsden, Jeff (March 2018). "Future Trends in Equipment". Essentials of Regional Anesthesia. Springer International Publishing. pp. 685–694. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74838-2_38. ISBN 978-3-319-74838-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Narula J, Chandrashekhar YY, Braunwald E (2018). "Time to add a fifth pillar to bedside physical examination: Inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, and insonation". JAMA Cardiology. 3 (4): 346–350. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2018.0001. PMID 29490335.
- ↑ Feletti F, Mucci V, Aliverti A (2018). "Chest Ultrasonography in Modern Day Extreme Settings: From Military Setting and Natural Disasters to Space Flights and Extreme Sports". Canadian Respiratory Journal. 2018: 8739704. doi:10.1155/2018/8739704. PMC 5875054. PMID 29736195.
- ↑ Hirahara A, Andersen W (2017). "High-Resolution Wireless Ultrasound". American Journal of Orthopedics. 46 (2): 109–110.
- ↑ "Hologic, Clarius ink deal on wireless ultrasound". www.auntminnie.com.
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