Is there an Engineer in the House?
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
The recent clinical successes of artificial hearts and VADs knock over the first barrier to adoption of a new, life-saving therapy. But other hurdles remain, including providing the infrastructure to service large numbers of patients going about with extremely complicated, often quirky high-tech implantable devices on which their lives depend. The University of Pittsburgh is marshalling its bioengineering resources into a commercial entity, start-up Vital Engineering, which will be able to provide post-implant services on a wider, even global scale.