Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 698-056, March 1998.

They envision these devices working together to monitor our vital functions ... the medical device giant Medtronic introduced pacemakers and defibrillators that communicate wirelessly via its ...

(Courtesy of Medtronic) At the time, pacemakers were “crude devices,” with wires coming out of the person’s body and “they were susceptible like anything that uses wall power,” said ...

Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product. Shortly after Bakken’s ...

As transformational as the pacemaker was, Martha believes a new Medtronic procedure ... Their new continuous glucose monitor, ...

The Halloween 1957 power outage, caused by an explosion at the Black Dog power plant just south of Minneapolis, lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered ...

lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered pacemaker, said Dr. Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies. The blackout was ...

Minneapolis, MN, USA), and one patient had a Medtronic EnRhythm DR (Model: P1501DR). Each system had the capability of programming to the unipolar mode via the pacemaker generator. All interaction ...