Mindchild Medical, Inc.
MindChild Medical, Inc., is a privately funded medical device company founded in 2008. MindChild’s principal technology platform, the MERIDIAN M110 non-invasive fetal electrocardiograph (fECG) monitor, is designed to report fetal heart rate data equivalent to the gold standard fetal scalp electrode in addition to novel ECG metrics intended to provide obstetricians a deeper understanding of fetal/maternal health and management.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Monitoring
- Market Focus:
- Nationally (across the country)
- Year Founded:
- 2008
About Us
MindChild MindChild was co-founded by Adam Wolfberg, MD, MFM and Assistant Professor, Tufts Medical Center, Gari Clifford, PhD, Principal Research Scientist at Harvard-MIT Division of Health and Science Technology, James Robertson, President and CEO, and Jay Ward, Executive Vice President, both of E-TROLZ, Inc. MindChild has exclusively licensed intellectual property from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts Medical Center and E-TROLZ, Inc., a Massachusetts technology company that develops and commercializes breakthrough physiologic monitoring platforms for a wide variety of applications.
About the Fetal Heart Monitoring Market
Over 85% of the 4,000,000 live births occurring in the US during 2011 required fetal monitoring during labor and delivery. Current non-invasive Doppler, employing ultrasound to detect FHR, is subject to loss of fetal heart rate due to maternal/fetal movement. Fetal Scalp Electrodes (FSE) that connect directly to the fetus during the later stages of labor and delivery are associated with increased risk of maternal/fetal infection. There are an estimated 28,000 fetal monitors spread over 3,400 hospitals in the US, representing an investment of over $700,000,000. MERIDIAN M110 has been developed to provide interruptible fECG data while addressing the deficiencies in both Doppler and FSE via innovative non-invasive monitoring technology.