Archive for October 2017

Worrell, the designer of one of the more memorable logos in the industry, has built a business designing healthcare technology to be easier for physicians. Now, the Minneapolis-based design firm is building a business developing how consumer-oriented technology – like Amazon’s Alexa and virtual reality – can serve the healthcare industry. In this interview, CEO…

ClearDATA Co-founder, CEO and President Darin Brannan says his father, uncles and brother are all physicians. “I’m sort of the black sheep out in Silicon Valley,” Brannan tells Steve Krupa in this week’s Breaking Health podcast. But he found honorable work, first as a venture capitalist at firm’s like Norwest Venture Partners, and then as…

Do you know your cognitive number? This is a question that is seldom asked, but according to Mylea Charvat, PhD, CEO of Savonix, knowing the answer is important. Savonix is a digital and cost-effective cognitive assessment platform that can be used to monitor mental cognition. If you’re wondering what exactly mental cognition is, it isn’t…

Jeffrey Brewer couldn’t accept the limits on technology when his son first was diagnosed with diabetes. Back in 2002, commercial airliners could almost land themselves and nuclear plants were automated. Yet the process of measuring glucose blood levels and injecting insulin were still determined by patients and families who were forced to do the math…