Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis provides information which management believes is relevant to an assessment and understanding of our condensed consolidated results of operations and financial condition. The discussion should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2024 contained in our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements and involves numerous risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those described in the “Risk Factors” sections of our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K and of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as updated and/or supplemented in subsequent filings with the SEC. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Unless the context otherwise requires, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” and “the Company” are intended to mean the business and operations of Hyperfine, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, present the financial position and results of operations of Hyperfine, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries.
Overview
We are an innovative health technology business with a mission to revolutionize patient care globally through accessible, affordable, clinically relevant artificial intelligence (“AI”)-powered portable ultra-low-field (“ULF”) magnetic resonance (“MR”) brain imaging. Our Swoop® Portable MR Imaging® System (“Swoop® system”) produces high-quality images at a lower magnetic field strength than conventional magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) scanners. Our Swoop® system is designed to transform brain MR for the patient, the clinician and the provider, enabling a highly differentiated experience for patients, timely imaging for clinicians, and favorable economics for hospital administrators. The Swoop® system is a portable, ULF MRI device for producing images that display the internal structures of the head where full diagnostic examination is not clinically practical. When interpreted by a trained physician, these images provide information that can be useful in determining a diagnosis. Healthcare professionals can use the Swoop® system to make effective clinical diagnoses and decisions in various care settings where conventional MRI devices are inaccessible or when they are not readily available. The easy-to-use interface and portable design of our Swoop® system make it easily and readily accessible anywhere in a hospital, clinic, physician office, or patient care site and it does not require any special facilities accommodations nor specialized personnel to operate safely. ULF MR does not expose patients to harmful ionizing radiation and compares favorably in this regard to X-ray, computed tomography or positron emission tomography.
The demand for MR imaging has been increasing due to the aging population and the rising prevalence of neurological, neurodegenerative, and cardiovascular conditions, recent approval of new Alzheimer’s medications, as well as the trends towards decentralized healthcare in mature, as well as low- and middle-income countries. Healthcare professionals and insurers recognize imaging as an effective, non-invasive diagnostic tool for evaluation and ongoing monitoring. The Swoop® system is the next generation brain imaging device designed to increase access to MRI in a cost-effective manner. We believe our market opportunity is significant across the multiple sites of care where the Swoop® system brings clinical and economic value. We estimate in the United States alone that our total addressable market for Swoop® system device placements is more than $16 billion.
Despite their advantages, many healthcare institutions worldwide lack the facilities, specialized operators, and capital necessary to acquire, maintain, and staff expensive conventional MRI devices. The Swoop® system is the first FDA-cleared, portable, ULF, MR brain imaging system that is capable of providing imaging at multiple sites of care, such as intensive care units, clinics, emergency departments or physicians’ offices, and can inform the timely detection, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of acute and chronic neurological conditions inside and outside the hospital. We designed the Swoop® system to address the limitations of conventional imaging technologies and make brain MR imaging accessible nearly anytime and anywhere across professional healthcare settings. We believe the adoption of the Swoop® system by healthcare professionals has clinical and economic benefits throughout healthcare communities in both high and low resource settings.
The Swoop® system is AI-powered and integrates deep learning, a form of AI in the reconstruction pipeline of T1, T2, diffusion-weighted Imaging, and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery sequences. The integration of deep learning does not require any additional steps from the user. As a result, deep learning can enhance the image quality and, consequently, the diagnostic value of images generated at ULF. The algorithms are designed to improve ULF image quality, while reducing the impact of scan artifacts. The images created with these algorithms were validated by