Hospitals and specialist offices continue to be a fertile area for Echosens growth, with hospitals and their Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Independent Practice Associations and other models opening opportunities for market expansion. Specialty physician practices, including endocrinologists and gastroenterologists, liver specialists, cardiologists and others continue to express strong interest in adopting the Echosens technology. Building on its presence and foundation, Echosens will continue to identify and refine these market opportunities, with anticipated growth in outpatient imaging and diagnostic facilities.

HCPs are now integrating more comprehensive liver health assessment into their practices, while also taking a proactive role in educating patients on how liver function affects their health—especially if individuals are obese and might be at risk for liver disease.


As the first line of defense against the advancement of liver disease, HCPs can play a role in identifying most liver disease by adopting FibroScan to painlessly provide rapid, consistent results that enable them to make the most informed treatment decisions. Empowered with FibroScan scores and data, they can often rule out the need for an expensive and often painful liver needle biopsy or other invasive, expensive testing.

When liver stiffness and fat measurements are evaluated as part of the overall patient presentation, the HCP can make an immediate determination if referral to a liver specialist is warranted. This ability to risk stratify and monitor the patients’ liver health can reduce unnecessary and costly specialist referrals and inform earlier intervention, thus potentially impacting outcomes.

The liver stiffness and fat measurements from a FibroScan examination can serve to improve patient and HCP satisfaction. The ability to deliver immediate and actionable information to inform the patient care plan not only reduces the burden of multiple visits and specialist referrals, but also may increase engagement in lifestyle modification programs with the intent to ultimately reverse this life-threatening disease and related comorbidities.

Echosens has a growing, strong presence in HCP offices that provide primary care services. This has now expanded to include primary care provided in U.S. Federally Qualified Health Centers where HCPs work with specialists to serve the nation’s most vulnerable populations. Additionally, Echosens recognizes the opportunity to support the employer community: a full one-third (33 percent) of U.S. employers with 5,000 or more employees now offer general medical worksite clinics, with a key focus on primary and preventive care for employees and their families.

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