iRhythm strives to ensure that cardiac rhythm monitoring becomes more accessible and available to many more patients who may be at risk for an abnormal heart rhythm, or an arrhythmia. Over the past two years, we have assembled individuals with a myriad of backgrounds who have come together to meet this challenge. We are as proud of the team that we have assembled as we are of the technology and systems that we have developed.
The multi-disciplinary flavor of iRhythm can be traced back to Stanford University’s Biodesign Program, where our founder, Uday Kumar MD, worked with two engineers and a business school graduate to understand the unmet clinical needs of patients suffering from arrhythmias. From this collaboration came a clear appreciation of the clinical need that many patients suffering from arrhythmias were simply not being diagnosed and those who were, were being diagnosed in an inefficient and untimely manner.
Understanding that the root causes of this problem could be traced to limitations of the devices and processes currently on the market inspired us to develop the Zio™ family of products and services.