ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Cardiologist and entrepreneur Aaron V. Kaplan discusses the need for blending patient needs, industry imperatives, health policy, and reimbursement to build a successful medtech start-up.
It is a medtech truism that most devices that improve patient care are developed through the efforts of physicians and engineers working together to solve a problem. But there is a small group of physician/entrepreneurs who themselves combine both the clinical and engineering expertise necessary to develop breakthrough products and launch start-up companies. Aaron V. Kaplan, MD, is one of those, combining engineering and interventional cardiology training to both treat patients and co-found a string of device companies.
