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Merger Dominoes Fall as HealthPartners and Essentia Combine (opens the original)
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Duluth-based Essentia Health and Bloomington-based HealthPartners announced on Tuesday the two nonprofits will combine to form one large health system under the HealthPartners name. The combined organization will include 22 hospitals, more than 135 clinics, and 6,000 clinicians, creating one of the Midwest’s largest nonprofit health systems while extending access across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest (North Dakota and Wisconsin). The HealthPartners/Essentia Health deal is another tipped-over do
Octin Health Wins MN Cup Grand Prize of $76K, Looks Toward FDA Clearance (opens the original)
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Minneapolis medical-device startup Octin Health won the 2026 MN Cup grand prize on Monday, giving the five-person company $76,000 in non-dilutive funding as it prepares to submit its aortic-surgery device to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for clearance early next year. Octin Health’s Elika device is designed to allow surgeons to maintain blood flow to the brain and body during aortic arch surgery, potentially eliminating the need for a dangerous procedure known as deep hypothermic circula
What Does Integer’s $5.7B Private Equity Deal Mean for Minnesota’s Medical Device Industry? (opens the original)
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Integer Holdings’ catheters, pacemaker batteries, and cardiac leads end up inside medical devices made by some of the world’s biggest healthcare companies including Abbott, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic. In July, private equity giant KKR announced it was acquiring Integer for $5.7 billion—turning the company’s ownership structure private. The sale offers a glimpse into the increasingly valuable manufacturing infrastructure behind Minnesota’s medical-device industry. The company has a large Mi
Startup Snapshot: Fasikl (opens the original)
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Bloomington-based Fasikl is on a mission to improve the lives of 7 million people in the U.S. living with essential tremor, a neurological movement disorder that causes involuntary muscle quivering that can interfere with everyday activities. It can happen spontaneously, as an isolated condition, or be a symptom of other disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. CEO Zhi Yang says his startup uses artificial intelligence to personalize and improve treatments for essential trem
How Mawadda’s Disposable Hijabs Are Solving a Problem for Hospitals (opens the original)
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Firaoli Adam was sitting in the lobby of a Twin Cities hospital five years ago with her aunt who was scheduled for an MRI. Adam had come along to help translate for her aunt. When it was finally time for the MRI, a doctor approached the two women, both wearing hijabs, and told them they couldn’t wear them into the room for hygienic reasons. The doctor offered Adam’s aunt a towel instead. “[My aunt] looked at me and said, ‘This is what you do to people?’” recalls Adam, who works in healthcare as
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