WAcelity L.P. Inc., was a privately held medical device company. It was a non-operating holding company who wholly owned subsidiaries developed advanced wound therapeutics products. The advanced wound therapeutics business was conducted by Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) and its subsidiaries, including Systagenix.
WAlere Inc. was a global manufacturer of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. The company was founded in 1991 and was headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. As of January 2017, the company had a market capitalization of $3.47 billion with an enterprise value of $5.9 billion. The company was formerly known as Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. and changed its name to Alere Inc. in 2010.
WAlign Technology is a manufacturer of 3D digital scanners and the Invisalign clear aligners used in orthodontics. It is headquartered in San Jose, California; it manufactures the aligners in Juarez, Mexico and its scanners in Israel and China.
WAlterG, Inc. is an American medical device company founded in 2005 by Sean Whalen in Fremont, California. The company makes mobility enhancement products for physical therapy and athletic training. The first product, the Anti-Gravity Treadmill, now includes a product line including the M/F320, Via 400 and 400X, and Pro 200 and 500. In 2013 the company acquired Tibion Corporation and added the Bionic Leg to its list of products. Charles Remsberg is CEO.
WAPI Healthcare is based in Hartford, Wisconsin and is a developer of healthcare-specific workforce management software. The company is best known for providing workforce management solutions to the healthcare industry.
WApplied Spectral Imaging or ASI is a multinational biomedical company that develops and manufactures microscopy imaging and digital analysis tools for hospitals, service laboratories and research centers. The company provides cytogenetic, pathology and research laboratories with brightfield, fluorescence and spectral imaging clinical applications. Test slides can be scanned, captured, archived, reviewed on screen, analyzed with computer-assisted algorithms and reported. ASI system platforms automate the workflow process to reduce human error in the identification and classification of chromosomal disorders, genome instability, various oncological malignancies, among other diseases.
WC. R. Bard, Inc., now branded simply as Bard, headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, was a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of medical technologies in the fields of vascular, urology, oncology, and surgical specialties before its acquisition by BD.
WBausch + Lomb is an eye health products company based in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of contact lenses, lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products. The company was founded in Rochester, New York, in 1853 by optician John Bausch and cabinet maker turned financial backer Henry Lomb. Until its sale in 2013, Bausch + Lomb was one of the oldest continually operating companies in the United States.
WBecton, Dickinson and Company, commonly known as BD, is an American multinational medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents. BD also provides consulting and analytics services in certain geographies.
WBicon Dental Implants is a privately owned company located in Boston, MA. The company specializes in short dental implants that use a locking taper or cold welding connection to secure the abutment to the implant. Bicon is notable and worthy of mention for the following three reasons: First, Bicon implants are extremely short in length. The size of Bicon implants allow them to be placed in regions that are crowded with natural teeth and/or implants, or in regions that would otherwise require bone grafting. Second, the implants do not have the screw-form design typical of other available implants. Third, the abutments are connected to the implant via a locking taper. This is notable from both a medical and engineering standpoint as no other implant company offers an implant with a biological seal at the implant/abutment interface; almost all other implants possess an internal screw to connect their abutments.
WBio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. is an American developer and manufacturer of specialized technological products for the life science research and clinical diagnostics markets. The company was founded in 1952 in Berkeley, California, by husband and wife team David and Alice Schwartz, both graduates of the University of California, Berkeley. Bio-Rad is based in Hercules, California, and has operations worldwide.
WBoston Scientific Corporation, doing business as Boston Scientific, is a manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology.
WCordis develops and manufactures medical devices for diagnostics and interventional procedures to treat patients suffering from coronary and peripheral vascular diseases.
WDeRoyal Industries is a vertically integrated manufacturer and marketer of health care products. It is a privately held company with headquarters in Powell, Tennessee and manufacturing facilities in the U.S. states of Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic Estonia, and Guatemala. As of 2017, DeRoyal reported having approximately 1900 employees.
WDynasplint Systems, Incorporated (DSI) is a company that designs, manufactures and sells dynamic splints that are used for range of motion rehabilitation. The corporate headquarters are located in Severna Park, Maryland and it is considered a major employer in Anne Arundel County. Products are Made in the USA in Stevensville, Maryland. There is a national sales force throughout the US as well as a presence in Canada and Europe.
WEdwards Lifesciences is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It developed the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via catheter. The company has manufacturing facilities at the Irvine headquarters, as well as in Draper, Utah; Costa Rica; the Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico; and Singapore; and is building a new facility due to be completed in 2021 in Limerick, Ireland.
WEthicon, Inc. is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. It was incorporated as a separate company under the Johnson & Johnson umbrella in 1949 to expand and diversify the Johnson & Johnson product line.
WFIGS is an American online medical apparel retailer based in Los Angeles, California. The company primarily sells scrubs that come in a variety of colors and styles. It was founded in 2013 by Heather Hasson and Trina Spear who both serve as co-CEOs.
WGlobus Medical, Inc. is a publicly traded medical device company headquartered in Audubon, Pennsylvania. Globus is focused on the design, development, and commercialization of products that enable surgeons to promote healing in patients with musculoskeletal disorders.
WGoodRx is an American healthcare company that operates a telemedicine platform and a free-to-use website and mobile app that track prescription drug prices in the United States and provide free drug coupons for discounts on medications. GoodRx checks more than 75,000 pharmacies in the United States. The website gets about fourteen million visitors a month. As of February 25, 2020, "millions of people" had downloaded the GoodRx app.
WHalyard, formerly Kimberly-Clark Health Care, now part of Owens & Minor, sells sterilization wrap, facial protection, gloves, protective apparel, surgical drapes and gowns in more than 100 countries.
WHansen Medical, Inc, headquartered in Mountain View, California, designs and manufactures medical robotics for positioning and control of catheter-based technologies that was founded in 2002 by Frederic Moll, M.D. to develop tools that manipulate catheters by combining robotic technology and computerized movement.
WHillrom is an American medical technology provider.
WIntuitive Surgical, Inc. is an American corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery, most notably with the da Vinci Surgical System. The company is part of the NASDAQ-100 and S&P 500. As of December 31, 2019, Intuitive Surgical had an installed base of 5,582 da Vinci Surgical Systems, including 3,531 in the U.S., 977 in Europe, 780 in Asia, and 294 in the rest of the world.
WJohnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is ranked No. 37 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Johnson & Johnson is one of the world's most valuable companies, and is one of only two U.S.-based companies that has a prime credit rating of AAA, higher than that of the United States government.
WKalispell Medical Equipment is a durable medical equipment supplier in Kalispell, Montana. Kalispell Medical Equipment is a division of Kalispell Regional Healthcare, which was transferred from the Sisters of Mercy's ownership to the community of Kalispell in 1973. Kalispell Medical Equipment was created in 1994. KRH is the largest employer in Northwest Montana, employing upwards of 2900 people and is the largest medical equipment supplier to Northwest Montana, providing rehab mobility products such as wheelchairs and scooters, oxygen concentrators, and ambulatory aids such as walkers. Kalispell Medical Equipment services nearly 20,000 square miles and 170,000 people around the Flathead Valley, including Flathead County, Lake County, and Lincoln County.
WMasimo is an American manufacturer of noninvasive patient monitoring technologies based in Irvine, California. The company sells pulse oximetry to hospitals. Masimo was founded in 1989 by electrical engineer Joe Kiani, who was later joined by fellow engineer Mohamed Diab.
WMiracle-Ear, Inc. is a hearing aid company consisting of a network of franchised and corporately-owned retail outlets. The company is a subsidiary of Amplifon, the worldwide distributor of hearing aids based in Italy. Miracle-Ear’s U.S. headquarters are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2014 it has more than 1,200 locations in the United States, and it is the best-known hearing aid brand in the U.S. In 2014, the company added several locations in Canada, with plans to open more Canadian outlets. According to the company, Miracle-Ear outlets offer free hearing tests and consultations, and the hearing aids include a risk-free 30-day trial period plus service, warranty, and lifetime after-care.
WNxStage Medical, Inc. Is an American company that develops, manufactures, and markets systems for the treatment of chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, and hypervolemia. It is a subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care. System One, a portable hemodialysis system, is the company's primary product.
WOmniGuide, Inc. is a private medical device company developing and commercializing minimally-invasive surgical tools. Founded in 2000, OmniGuide's manufacturing facilities and executive offices are located in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. The Company’s manufacturing plant, located at OmniGuide’s headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, has manufacturing processes that are capable of manufacturing fibers with semiconductor level tolerances and microscopic layers in a scalable manner.
WOrthoCor Medical, Inc. is a privately owned medical device company based in Arden Hills, Minnesota. Founded in 2007, OrthoCor develops drug-free, noninvasive, mobile medical devices aimed at alleviating pain and reducing edema.
WPac-Kit Safety Equipment Company has roots dating back to 1880 when Silas Burroughs, a former representative of the US pharmaceutical company John Wyeth & Co, and his business associate Henry Wellcome formed Burroughs Wellcome & Co in the UK. The two started manufacturing compressed pharmaceuticals, a novelty in those days and much safer than medicines prepared by pestle and mortar.
WSarcos is an American developer of robotics and microelectromechanical systems and related technologies. It was founded in the early 1980s when it was spun out from the University of Utah. The company specializes in creating robotic devices for military and industrial applications. Sarcos' work can be found in a wide variety of applications, ranging from the robotic pirates and dinosaurs at theme parks, to the robotic fountains in front of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, to NASA space suit testing equipment, prosthetic limbs, and MEMS sensors. Time Magazine named Sarcos’ Guardian XO full-body, powered exoskeleton one of “The 100 Best Inventions of 2020”.
WSirona Dental Systems Inc. (Sirona) was a global dental equipment manufacturer, and the world's largest dental equipment provider, which used to be part of Siemens. On 15 September 2015, it was acquired by Dentsply and renamed to Dentsply Sirona.
WSpacelabs Healthcare is an American manufacturer of medical equipment and is a wholly owned subsidiary of OSI Systems of Hawthorne, California and offers products and services from three divisions: patient monitoring and connectivity, anesthesia delivery and diagnostic cardiology. The company headquarters are in Snoqualmie, Washington State and it employs over one thousand people around the world.
WSynCardia Systems, LLC, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, was founded in 2001 and is the sole manufacturer and provider of the world's only clinically proven and commercially approved Total Artificial Heart.
WVarian Medical Systems (VAR) is an American radiation oncology treatments and software maker based in Palo Alto, California. Their medical devices include linear accelerators and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company supplies software for managing cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers, and medical oncology practices. Varian is a supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical diagnostics, dentistry, veterinary care, scientific, security, industrial inspection including high-energy X-ray technology for cargo screening. Varian Medical Systems employs more than 7,100 people at manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and China and approximately 70 sites globally.
WWelch Allyn, Inc. was founded in 1915 and is an American manufacturer of medical diagnostic devices and patient monitoring systems. Headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, New York, it was family-owned until it was acquired in 2015 by Hillrom.
WWi, Inc. is an American medical device development corporation incorporated and headquartered outside of the Denver Tech Center in Centennial, CO. Wi's contract design and manufacturing services focus on commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic microfluidic disposable cartridges and instrumentation, as well as an array of therapeutic and other medical devices. Wi programs have achieved significant industry success and recognition, notably with the LifePort Kidney Transporter a 2004 Gold Winner and GenMark's ePlex platform a 2017 Silver Winner of the Medical Design Excellence Awards.
WXenco Medical is an American medical technology company headquartered in San Diego, California that designs, develops, and distributes composite polymer medical devices.
WZephyr Technology Corporation, is a privately owned manufacturer of advanced heart rate monitors, remote physiological monitoring and wireless telehealth systems for remote patient monitoring.
WZipline is an American medical product delivery company headquartered in South San Francisco, California that designs, manufactures, and operates delivery drones. The company operates distribution centers in Rwanda, Ghana, and the US. As of February 2021, its drones have flown more than 4 million miles and made nearly 400,000 deliveries in the last five years.
WZynex, Inc. is a medical device manufacturer that produces and markets electrotherapy devices for use in pain management, physical rehabilitation, neurological diagnosis and cardiac monitoring. Thomas Sandgaard founded Zynex Medical in 1996.