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KESTRA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.CIK 0001877184 · Surgical & Medical Instruments
We are a commercial-stage wearable medical device and digital healthcare company focused on transforming patient outcomes in cardiovascular disease through connected monitoring, therapeutic intervention, and data-driven clinical insights. We have developed and are commercializing the Cardiac… About this business →
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About KESTRA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed July 14, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
Item 1. Business.
Overview
We are a commercial-stage wearable medical device and digital healthcare company focused on transforming patient outcomes in cardiovascular disease through connected monitoring, therapeutic intervention, and data-driven clinical insights. We have developed and are commercializing the Cardiac Recovery System platform, an integrated cardiac recovery ecosystem designed to support patients at elevated risk of sudden cardiac arrest (“SCA”) during vulnerable periods of recovery.
Our Cardiac Recovery System platform is anchored by the ASSURE® Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (“WCD”), which continuously monitors patient heart rhythms and automatically delivers defibrillation therapy when life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias are detected. The platform also includes digital patient engagement and clinical workflow solutions designed to improve patient adherence, support care coordination, and provide actionable clinical insights throughout the recovery process.
We believe the ASSURE WCD is differentiated by its patient-centered design, including comfort, wearability, and low false alarm rates, which are intended to improve patient compliance during extended wear periods. In addition, our integrated platform generates continuous cardiac rhythm data and clinically actionable insights that may assist healthcare providers in managing patients during vulnerable recovery periods. We believe these capabilities position Kestra to participate in the growing cardiac recovery market and support future platform expansion opportunities. As of April 30, 2026, our ASSURE WCD has protected nearly 40,000 patients since commercial launch.
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Market Overview and Opportunity
There are three primary types of defibrillators used to treat life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias: implantable cardioverter defibrillators (“ICDs”), external defibrillators, and wearable cardioverter defibrillators (“WCDs”). ICDs are permanently implanted devices intended for long-term protection, while external defibrillators are typically used in acute emergency settings and require intervention by another individual. WCDs provide continuous, non-invasive protection during temporary periods of elevated sudden cardiac arrest risk.
Many patients recovering from recent myocardial infarction, newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy, or other cardiac events are not immediate candidates for ICD implantation due to clinical guidelines, reimbursement requirements, or the need for optimization of guideline-directed medical therapy. During this recovery period, patients may remain at meaningful risk for life-threatening arrhythmias.
We believe WCD therapy plays an important role during this vulnerable interval by providing continuous protection while supporting clinical decision-making throughout the recovery process. We further believe the combination of therapy delivery, patient engagement, and clinically actionable cardiac insights positions our Cardiac Recovery System platform to address an important unmet need in cardiac recovery management. The expected wear duration of the WCD varies based on the patient indication, with most patients being prescribed the WCD for three months or longer.
Limitations of Other Commercially Available WCDs
The WCD is indicated for use in patients who are at risk for SCA and are not candidates for, or refuse, an ICD. However, limitations of other commercially available WCDs, such as patient comfort and false alarm rate, as well as gaps in awareness by healthcare providers of its broader diagnostic utility have led to underutilization of the therapy. Many indicated patients do not receive a prescription and some choose not to wear a WCD. Patients who choose not to wear a WCD are often left reliant on first responders or EMS in the event of a SCA. This reliance poses a significant risk, as only 16% of sudden cardiac events occur in public places where an automated external defibrillator might be available according to the American Heart Association. Based on data from the American Medical Association, the average time for EMS arrival is 7 minutes from the time of a 911 call, and often longer in rural communities. During this critical time, survival rates decline by 7% to 10% for every minute that passes.
Our Market Opportunity
Since the approval of the first WCD in 2001, global WCD revenues have grown significantly, reaching approximately $1.1 billion in 2025, with over 80% of the revenues coming from the United States. Based on our commercial results and publicly reported financial data from our competitor, we estimate the WCD market grew in the low to mid-teens in 2025, an acceleration from high single digit growth in recent years. We expect that growth to continue, driven by increased awareness and education about WCD
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therapy, a growing body of clinical evidence, and the rapidly growing heart failure population. Despite being available for over 25 years and proven effective in treating dangerous cardiac rhythms when worn by patients, WCD therapy reached just 16% of eligible U.S. patients in 2025, highlighting a significant opportunity for growth. We attribute this low penetration to poor patient compliance, driven by the limitations of our leading competitor’s device. The ASSURE WCD, as part of our broader Cardiac Recovery System platform, is designed to prioritize patient comfort and compliance, addressing common barriers to acceptance experienced by other commercially available WCDs.
The WCD is indicated for use in patients who are at risk for SCA and are not candidates for, or refuse, an ICD. Medical guidelines recommend WCD use in those patients with a low left ventricular ejection fraction ("LVEF") and a recent myocardial infarction (MI), recent revascularization procedure or newly diagnosed nonischemic cardiomyopathy with heart failure symptoms. In addition, patients with documented ventricular tachycardia ("VT") or ventricular fibrillation ("VF") or an inherited genetic condition that places them at high risk for SCA, or patients who have had their ICD temporarily explanted are also indicated for WCDs. According to the Americal Heart Association ("AHA"), approximately 1.8 million people in the U.S. each year experience a serious cardiac event, such as an MI, or are diagnosed with heart failure. Among these patients, around 800,000 patients have low LVEF, placing them at an elevated risk of SCA. Additionally, approximately 50,000 patients each year either have documented VT or VF, an inherited genetic condition, or have had their ICD temporarily explanted. Based on the foregoing annual incidences, the current Medicare reimbursement rate of $3,589 per patient per month, and our average initial WCD prescription length of 3.4 months, we believe the total, annual addressable market in the U.S. for the ASSURE WCD is approximately $10 billion.
While our current commercial focus is on the U.S., 18% of global WCD revenues in 2025 were generated internationally, representing approximately $200 million, and that has primarily been concentrated in Western Europe where the market has been most developed, as well as in Japan. In select international markets, we estimate based on patient population data collected by various third-party industry sources that there are approximately 3.7 million people each year who experience an MI, are diagnosed with heart failure, have documented VT or VF, have an inherited genetic condition, or have had their ICD temporarily explanted. Among these patients, based on the same third-party industry sources, we estimate that approximately 1.8 million patients meet the indications for WCD therapy. Based on estimated average WCD wear prescription length in these international markets of 2.5 months per patient and estimated average reimbursement rate of $3,000 per patient per month derived from industry data and internal estimates, we believe this represents an approximately $14 billion total annual market opportunity outside the U.S. as of 2025. We have not received any regulatory approvals to commercialize our products outside of the U.S. and have not submitted any applications to obtain such regulatory approvals. However, we are currently planning to pursue CE Mark approval in Europe and, in the future, intend to strategically commercialize in selected international countries. We anticipate Western Europe to be our initial focus due to favorable market dynamics and our goal is to obtain regulatory approvals to begin distributing our ASSURE WCD in certain markets in Western Europe within the next three years.
Our Solution
Our Product
The ASSURE WCD serves as the foundation our Cardiac Recovery System platform, which pairs proven protection with clinically informed insights to support patients throughout the recovery journey. The ASSURE WCD automatically monitors elevated risk patients and, if needed, delivers a defibrillation shock to return the patient’s heart to normal rhythm. It was purpose-built to enhance patient comfort and compliance and directly address the key barriers to adoption associated with the other commercially available WCDs. The ASSURE WCD received FDA approval on July 27, 2021 for adult patients at elevated risk of SCA who are not candidates for, or decline, an ICD.
Our Platform
Building on this foundation, the Cardiac Recovery System platform includes a suite of digital and clinical support solutions designed to provide a more connected approach to patient management. Integrated solutions—including the ASSURE patient application, Kestra CareStation® remote patient management platform, Heart Alert Services, and ASSURE Assist®—provide clinicians with greater visibility into patient status and support informed care decisions.
The ASSURE patient application engages patients through real-time mobile connectivity and facilitates communication between patients and healthcare providers. The Kestra CareStation remote patient management platform equips providers with alert-based notifications and patient data that may support timely clinical decision-making. Heart Alert Services and ASSURE Assist work together to enhance patient safety by notifying healthcare providers of significant arrhythmias and facilitating emergency response when therapy is delivered. ASSURE Assist is designed to notify emergency services when a therapeutic shock is administered, helping to support timely post-event care.
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In April 2026, we announced the release of the Enhanced ASSURE Detection Algorithm, a software enhancement to the ASSURE WCD that incorporates insights derived from the ASSURE WCD Clinical Evaluation Post-Approval Study ("ACE-PAS") registry dataset. The Enhanced ASSURE Detection Algorithm was designed to further improve rhythm discrimination and reduce unnecessary alarms while maintaining the device's ability to identify and treat life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. The graphic below provides an overview of the integrated components of our Cardiac Recovery System platform and how they support patients and healthcare providers:
Key Benefits of Our Solution
We believe our Cardiac Recovery System platform offers notable benefits and an improved user-experience that differentiates it from the only other commercially available WCD. These benefits include:
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Modern and advanced design to improve comfort, performance and maximize wearability. The Sensorfit garments were developed with an athletic and sportswear designer and are tailored for body inclusivity, offering two styles and a wide range of sizes. We believe that having separate, gender-specific designs is particularly important given women make up approximately 40% of SCA patients. Overall wearability is further supported by the results of our post-approval study (“ACE-PAS”) which demonstrate a median wear time of greater than 23 hours per day. In addition to improving comfort and wearability, our unique Sensorfit garment design incorporates cushioned electrodes that are embedded in the fabric to improve electrode contact and, ultimately, improve electrocardiogram (“ECG”) signal quality.
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High fidelity ECG leading to fewer false alarms. The ASSURE WCD is designed to minimize false alarms. Reduction in false alarms may lead to lower patient anxiety, improved patient satisfaction and increased patient compliance. The overall level of noise is reduced through use of resistive ECG electrodes that are cushioned and securely bonded to the fabric, custom shielded cables, and isolation circuitry. The ASSURE WCD also utilizes four channels of high-quality ECG, combined with
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Adaptive Patient Intelligence (“API”), a proprietary technology that adapts to the patient heart rhythm to filter out artifacts and improve performance even in a noisy environment. Primary results from ACE-PAS, announced in November 2025, which enrolled 21,612 patients across the United States, reported a low false alarm rate with only 6% of our patients experiencing a false alarm. The latest updates to the ASSURE WCD include the Enhanced ASSURE Detection Algorithm, whose projected impact is estimated to result in only 3% of ASSURE patients experiencing a false alarm. This compares to 46% of patients experiencing a false alarm for the leading competitor’s device, as reported in the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology Study.
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Product innovations and integrated digital solutions and services supporting the patient throughout the cardiac care continuum. Our Cardiac Recovery System platform is a comprehensive suite of proprietary wearable and fully integrated digital solutions and services for monitoring, diagnosing, and protecting patients through their cardiac recovery journey. We believe our Cardiac Recovery System platform represents a competitive advantage, with the goal of ultimately improving the prescriber and patient experience, maximizing patient comfort and compliance, and increasing adoption of our system. In addition, our Cardiac Recovery System platform’s capabilities allow healthcare providers to identify other clinically significant arrhythmias.
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Improved energy delivery to enhance efficacy and safety. The ASSURE WCD delivers a 170-joule shock to better serve patients with higher defibrillation thresholds, compared to the leading competitor device which delivers a 150-joule shock. In addition, our system has a minimum defibrillation capacity of 25 shocks, providing a significant safety buffer for patients who experience multiple cardiac events within a short period of time, such as a VT storm—a condition characterized by repeated episodes of sustained VT requiring intervention.
Our Product Portfolio
In addition to our commercialized products, we continue to invest in expanding our offerings and product portfolio. For example, in January 2026, we announced a strategic collaboration with Biobeat Technologies (“Biobeat”), which has developed the only clinically validated, FDA-cleared cuffless, patch-worn ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (“ABPM”) device. The device leverages photoplethysmography-based sensing to deliver continuous, noninvasive blood pressure measurement over a 24-hour period for hypertension diagnosis and management in the outpatient cardiac recovery setting. We intend to integrate Biobeat’s technology into its product portfolio to make ABPM data available for patients prescribed the ASSURE WCD.
Our Strategy
We believe the continued growth of our company will be driven by the following success factors:
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Large, growing, and underpenetrated WCD market;
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Highly innovative Cardiac Recovery System platform designed to protect patients from SCA and improve patient compliance and healthcare provider adoption;
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Comprehensive and fully integrated suite of mission critical digital solutions and services for driving patient and healthcare provider engagement;
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Material investments in infrastructure to support rapid growth and scale;
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Established reimbursement and favorable payor coverage;
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Strong and compelling body of clinical evidence;
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Broad research and development capabilities and a robust intellectual property portfolio; and
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Highly experienced management team and board with proven commercial growth success.
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To fully achieve our mission of providing innovative, intuitive medical technologies to protect and support at-risk patients, we intend to pursue the following growth strategies:
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Continue to capture share of the current WCD prescriptions in the U.S.;
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Expand adoption of our Cardiac Recovery System platform in the U.S. to increase the penetration of the U.S. total addressable WCD market;
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Build upon our strong base of clinical evidence;
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Continue our payor engagement to broaden coverage and increase reimbursement;
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Innovate our system and bolster our digital healthcare platform and data management capabilities;
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Drive gross profit expansion and operating leverage;
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Pursue expansion in international markets; and
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Strategically pursue adjacent markets with new products offerings and differentiated services.
Clinical Trials
We are committed to building upon our strong foundation of clinical evidence demonstrating the efficacy of our ASSURE WCD and our broader Cardiac Recovery System platform, with 10 publications completed to date. We believe our ongoing clinical initiatives will further validate the benefits of our system and may support stronger guideline recommendations for WCD therapy.
Preclinical and human clinical safety and effectiveness data provided the basis for PMA approval of the ASSURE WCD in July 2021. That evidence included an extensive series of engineering verification tests and statistically robust animal studies, followed by two investigational device exemption (“IDE”) human trials, ACE-DETECT and ACE-CONVERT. Our ASSURE Patient Registry continues to serve as a cornerstone for generating real-world evidence on our ASSURE WCD’s performance. All patients prescribed the ASSURE WCD in the U.S. after August 5, 2022 are included in the Registry. As of April 30, 2026, our ongoing registry has enrolled approximately 40,000 patients.
Most recently, we announced the primary results of primary results from the ASSURE WCD Clinical Evaluation Post-Approval Study (“ACE-PAS”) in November 2025, which underscored the ASSURE WCD’s competitive advantages in wearability, usability, and patient compliance, providing strong support for continued adoption. ACE-PAS has been the largest prospective real-world study of wearable defibrillators to date. Key outcomes from ACE-PAS include 100% successful conversion rate for VT and VF events and an inappropriate-shock rate of 0.0065 per patient-month, with only 6% of our patients experiencing a false alarm, compared to 46% for our leading competitor’s device. Among 16,441 patients who completed wear at data cut-off, median daily use was more than 23 hours per day, with one third of patients in the study continuing use beyond 90 days. The study also revealed that 2.6% of patients experienced at least one life-threatening VT or VF event within only a few months of being prescribed the ASSURE WCD, highlighting the need for the product. The ASSURE system facilitated the detection of high-rate atrial fibrillation in 4.2% of patients (35% previously undiagnosed) and severe bradycardia or asystole in 0.3% of patients, enabling the potential for more timely intervention.
Third Party Coverage, Reimbursement and Payor Relations
We derive nearly all our revenue from the direct billing of various third-party payors, including Medicare, Medicaid, private payors and other healthcare-related organizations, for the lease of our ASSURE WCD to patients as part of our Cardiac Recovery System platform. Additionally, any costs associated with our solution that are not covered by third-party payors, such as co-payments, are billed directly to the patient by our team.
We have strong, established payor relationships, including some of the largest private payors in the U.S. Based on our estimates, we are contracted or enrolled as an in-network healthcare provider with payors currently covering over 290 million lives as of April 30, 2026. These contracts allow us to be an in-network healthcare provider for patients, enabling them to access our system at
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a competitive rate and copay. These established payor relationships reduce our administrative burden in authorization and billing for our ASSURE WCD. Our payor relationships are supported by our revenue cycle management platform, which streamlines reimbursement processes by ensuring claims are accurately prepared and submitted according to individual payor requirements, facilitating timely collections. These capabilities are an important element in our strategy to increase operational efficiency and support both patient and healthcare provider satisfaction.
WCDs are reimbursed as Durable Medical Equipment under the DMEPOS Fee Schedule and our ASSURE WCD is eligible for payment under the existing HCPCS code K0606. Code K0606 falls under the Capped Rental monthly reimbursement rate for lease payments. K0606 is an active 2026 HCPCS code defined as an automated external defibrillator, with integrated ECG analysis, garment type. The Medicare allowable for code K0606 is approximately $3,589 per month for months one to three and reduces 25% to $2,692 for months four to thirteen published in the CMS DMEPOS Fee Schedule in January 2026, while the maximum Medicare allowable over the course of their lease is approximately $37,683. The standard patient co-insurance is 20%. We have been issued a Medicare Provider Number by the CMS, which enables us to bill Medicare for reimbursement for our ASSURE WCD. Reimbursement rates for WCDs have shown consistent, favorable trends, with published Medicare reimbursement rates having increased at a CAGR of over 2.5% from 2016 to 2026.
Private payor reimbursement rates are generally in line with Medicare rates and vary based on several factors, including but are not limited to, the payor, geographic location, and contract terms. Most large, national payors have established coverage policies in place to cover WCD therapy.
Outside the U.S., reimbursement levels vary by country and by region. Some countries or regions may require us to gather additional clinical data before granting coverage and reimbursement for our ASSURE WCD. We intend to work with payors to obtain coverage and reimbursement approval in countries and regions we intend to enter in the future, including select countries in Western Europe such as Germany and France. We estimate that these two countries include approximately 600,000 WCD-indicated patients, representing a sizeable opportunity for future international expansion.
Sales and Marketing
Our commercial strategy and our direct sales force primarily target general cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists, and advanced practice providers within hospitals and clinics in the U.S., as these represent the primary healthcare providers managing the care of patients at elevated risk of SCA and who typically make decisions regarding WCD prescriptions. Our sales, marketing and product education efforts are focused on capturing market share and driving adoption by offering healthcare providers an innovative, safe and effective WCD alternative.
Our commercial team is comprised of approximately 130 direct sales representatives as well as more than 40 sales and clinical support professionals as of April 30, 2026. This team is responsible for developing sales territory business plans, targeting and opening new accounts, and driving adoption of our Cardiac Recovery System platform. Once a healthcare provider prescribes our ASSURE WCD to a patient, our direct sales team is supported by a contracted team of over 500 Assure Patient Specialists ("APS") who assist patients with fitting and training. These specialists assist with fitting patients with the appropriate size and gender-specific option of the ASSURE WCD and provide training on its proper wear and use. At fitting, we deliver our ASSURE WCD from our distribution network to the patient. When a patient’s wear time has concluded, the device is returned for reprocessing and reintroduction into the distribution network.
We have initially focused on establishing key customer accounts and expansion into high WCD-volume areas. Our commercial team has been successful at driving adoption of the ASSURE WCD with hospitals ranging from top academic medical centers to community hospitals, and we plan to continue to further scale our commercial team to reach a wider range of healthcare providers across the entire U.S. Long term, we plan to expand internationally, and we believe the prevalence of single payor health systems outside of the U.S. provides an opportunity to efficiently penetrate large pools of net new eligible lives. As of April 30, 2026, we have not received any regulatory approvals to commercialize our products outside of the U.S. and have not submitted any applications to obtain such regulatory approvals. However, we are currently planning to pursue CE Mark approval in Europe and, in the future, intend to strategically commercialize in select international countries. We anticipate Western Europe to be our initial focus due to favorable market dynamics and our goal is to obtain regulatory approvals to begin distributing our ASSURE WCD in certain markets in Western Europe within the next three years.
Research & Development
We are committed to investing in research and development activities to advance our Cardiac Recovery System platform as well as develop and commercialize next-generation products. Over a decade of investment in our research and development capabilities has resulted in a highly experienced and capable innovation engine. Designed as a scalable platform, our Cardiac
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Recovery System platform supports future extensions and enhancements, enabling the integration of new therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities to support our existing fleet of ASSURE WCDs. The platform also enables data collection from patients that will support training of automated algorithms to detect and predict clinically relevant events. We also intend to leverage the Class I nature of our broader suite of digital solutions to continually enhance the digital capabilities of our Cardiac Recovery System platform, offering greater data transparency, diagnostic flexibility, and workflow efficiency.
Through the ASSURE Patient Registry, we are maximizing the utility of this system to collect and leverage aggregated, de-identified data to build clinical evidence and support innovations in prediction, prevention, and therapy. For example, we aim to develop advanced capabilities to deliver personalized clinical decision support. Our efforts to continuously innovate reflect our vision of leveraging our unique capabilities to deliver smarter, more effective solutions for cardiac patients.
In addition to serving high-acuity patient populations, we believe we are positioned to expand our offerings to a broader range of cardiac patients, including those with previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, advanced hypertension, and other cardiac conditions. Our long-term vision is to deliver a comprehensive and cohesive ecosystem of monitoring, diagnostics, and therapy that seamlessly supports patients as their health conditions evolve. In addition, in January 2026, we announced a strategic collaboration with Biobeat Technologies, which has developed the only clinically validated, FDA-cleared cuffless, patch-worn ABPM device. The device leverages photoplethysmography-based sensing to deliver continuous, noninvasive blood pressure measurement over a 24-hour period for hypertension diagnosis and management in the outpatient cardiac recovery setting. We intend to integrate Biobeat’s technology into its product portfolio to make ABPM data available for patients prescribed the ASSURE WCD.
We have established a tenured and dedicated research and development team comprised of highly skilled engineers and program managers with extensive experience in external and implantable defibrillation, as well as more than a decade of experience creating our next generation wearable medical device. In addition, we have strong software development resources capable of innovating advanced algorithms, user interfaces, and connectivity solutions to enhance the functionality and user experience of our Cardiac Recovery System platform.
Manufacturing and Supply
We utilize third-party manufacturing and supply partners to manufacture our ASSURE WCD and its components. We believe outsourcing the manufacture of our ASSURE WCD provides the expertise and capacity required to effectively and efficiently scale production based on the demand. We select our third-party partners to ensure that our ASSURE WCD and its components are of the highest quality and adhere to all applicable regulations. We employ a rigorous manufacturing and supplier partner assessment, qualification, and selection process to target partners that meet the requirements of the FDA and the International Organization for Standardization, as well as quality standards supported by internal policies and procedures. Our quality assurance program monitors and maintains manufacturing and supplier partner performance through qualification and periodic reviews and audits. Our tier-one third-party manufacturing and supplier partners, which supply our SensorFit Garment and assemble our ASSURE WCD, are also independently audited by the FDA. We rely on a single or limited number of suppliers for certain components of our ASSURE WCD. We seek to manage single-source supplier risk by regularly assessing the quality and capacity of our partners, as well as by qualifying alternative partners and developing contingency plans for responding to disruptions.
Our third-party manufacturing and supplier partners inspect, test, and assemble our ASSURE WCD and its components under strict manufacturing processes supported by internal policies and procedures. Our third-party partners are all in compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations applicable to our ASSURE WCD. Both of our tier-one third-party manufacturing and supplier partners are headquartered in the U.S. and provide products from their facilities based in the U.S.
We utilize a lease business model where certain components of our ASSURE WCD are reused for multiple patients. At the end of a prescription, the patient ships our ASSURE WCD back to our third-party manufacturing partner, who disposes of the single-use items, such as our SensorFit Garment, and then inspects, tests, and recertifies the other components for use by another patient. The reusable nature of our ASSURE WCD allows each device to be deployed multiple times, thereby reducing the ongoing demand for new inventory. These reconditioning processes are validated and FDA approved. We also have preventative maintenance and repair processes that can further extend the life of each ASSURE WCD.
We utilize an inventory distribution strategy where we pre-emptively deploy our ASSURE WCD and its components to a central distribution location, as well as 20 additional strategically located third-party warehouses across the U.S. This is done to ensure our ASSURE WCD is available for immediate use no matter where a patient is located. Inventory stock is allocated based on historical ASSURE WCD utilization in that territory, as well as sales forecasting to account for growing demand. Using this strategy, ASSURE WCD components are typically replenished within a 24-hour window. We believe this distribution model optimizes the availability of our ASSURE WCD inventory, supports growth, and minimizes the impact of localized weather, transportation delays, or other disruptions.
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Our tier-one third-party manufacturing and supplier partners also operate facilities in Asia and Europe, equipped with localized manufacturing and reconditioning capabilities. These facilities can leverage our proven systems and processes in the U.S. to support our future international needs.
Competition
Our currently marketed products and any future products we commercialize will be subject to competition. The WCD market has historically been served by a single incumbent commercial product, the LifeVest WCD, which is marketed by ZOLL Medical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Asahi Kasei Corporation. In May 2025, a new market entrant received FDA approval for an adhesive-based external defibrillator.
We believe that the primary factors in developing a competitive WCD include:
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product safety and effectiveness;
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detection algorithm sensitivity, specificity and false alarm rate;
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patient physical and psychological comfort and ease of use;
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ability to integrate within the patient monitoring ecosystem;
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quality, breadth and ongoing generation of clinical evidence;
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technological innovation, product enhancements and speed of innovation;
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capital required to achieve PMA approval as well as to facilitate post-commercial initial inventory; and
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regulatory status and speed to market.
Additionally, we believe that the following factors are required to commercially compete in the WCD market:
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patient and healthcare provider connectivity and engagement;
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post-event monitoring and emergency support;
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effective marketing to and education of patients, physicians, other healthcare providers and hospitals;
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company, product and brand recognition;
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device reusability and durability;
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reimbursement and payor coverage;
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complexity in building up the remote cardiac monitoring (“RCM”) capabilities and logistics to support broad-based commercialization and service levels; and
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recruitment and retention of a qualified and experienced sales force.
We believe that our Cardiac Recovery System platform will continue to be advantaged in the market due to our differentiated and integrated features enabling superior patient comfort, compliance, connectivity and support. However, our competitors, current and future, may have greater financial and personnel resources than we have and may have advantages over us in any of the aforementioned factors. For a discussion of risks related to our competition, see ‘