Philips Buys Heart Imaging Tech Firm Set Up By Biosense Founder

05 Jun 2018

• By Tina Tan

Philips is bulking-up its image-guided therapy portfolio with the acquisition of EPD Solutions, which has a recently CE-marked cardiac imaging and navigation system for ablation procedures to treat heart arrhythmias. EPD was founded by serial inventor and entrepreneur, Shlomo Ben-Haim, the man behind Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster business.

Philips Healthcare has agreed to acquire EPD Solutions, a privately-held specialist in technologies enabling image-guided therapies for cardiac arrhythmias, in a deal worth up to €460m ($542m).

CE marked in February, EPD's cardiac imaging and navigation system comprises proprietary algorithms and single-use electromagnetic sensors to generate a...