Sean Duffy

Sean is the Co-Founder and CEO of Omada Health, (http://omadahealth.com), a Silicon Valley startup that aims brings thoughtful and engaging products to disease prevention and health promotion. Prior to Omada Health, Sean was enrolled in Harvard’s joint MD/MBA program, and previously worked in IDEO’s Health & Wellness group driving innovative work for providers, health technology companies, and employers. Sean also spent two years at Google, served as an editor at Medgadget.com, and was recently named as one of the "40 Under 40" top medtech innovators by MDDI. He received his BS from Columbia University.

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February 9th, 2012 Singularity University's FutureMed program is running this week. We'll soon be covering segments of the event in more depth, but yesterday we peeked into their demo room to see what sort of medical technology advances they are showcasing.  Here is a sampling of what we found: EyeNETRA grew out of a research effort at MIT's Media...
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December 5th, 2011 Last year Daniel Kraft, the chair of Singularity University's FutureMed, contacted Medgadget and asked if we'd provide on-site coverage of his new (at the time) five day executive education program. We met up in Palo Alto and Daniel shared his vision, showed us the speaker list and draft schedule, and we were immediately sold. For...
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October 31st, 2011 TEDMED 2011 finished up with a short morning session for attendees to learn just a little bit more before they checked out of the Del and headed out of San Diego. On the whole, the TEDMED crew once again pulled off a spectacular conference. The quality of the talks (especially Day 3) and social events was exceptional and we'd like to...
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October 28th, 2011 We're here at TEDMED 2011 and have just finished up day three of the conference. It was a spectacular. Yesterday (day 2) was solid and today (day 3) was stellar. The talks, ranging from mushrooms to the FDA, allowed TEDMED to really flex its muscles as a world class affair. Today's proceedings started with another song-based wrap-up...
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October 27th, 2011 We've just wrapped up day two at TEDMED, retiring to our rooms after a beach clambake at the beautiful Hotel Del Coronado. After a bit of a slow start in the morning sessions, things picked up to make a great day of talks, filled with medical innovation, performances, and more. In addition to this summary of the day's events, stay tuned...
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October 26th, 2011 Medgadget's coverage of TEDMED has one simple goal: to give you a synopsis of each day so that you can get the TEDMED highlights from afar. The full speaker list is here. If there's anything in particular you'd like us to cover in more depth, don't hesitate to let us know in the comments below.  It's that time of the year again...
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September 27th, 2011 Sleep tracking company Zeo has announced today that they'll soon be selling a mobile version of their product, compatible with both iOS and Android.  The company previously only offered what amounted to a base-station clock with a sleep monitoring  headband. Together they tracked your sleep patterns, including Light, Deep, and REM,...
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August 22nd, 2011 Microorganism diagnostics are difficult to speed up even though fast results can be tremendously useful for clinical decision making. If you're testing a patient for say, MRSA colonization, traditionally you'd either have to smear a sample on a Petri dish (or equivalent) and wait for it to grow to detectible levels, or grind the sample...
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August 2nd, 2011 Health tech enthusiasts have been recently gushing over the promise of the Basis watch, a sensor-filled arm band that'll keep an eye on your pulse, your caloric burn, your movement, the degree in which you're sweating, and then upload these data via Bluetooth to your computer and the Basis web service. A lot of companies selling...
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August 1st, 2011 We've previously written about Doximity, Jeff Tangney's new venture that aims to be the LinkedIN for doctors. Launched about 10 months ago, Doximity seems to be progressing quite nicely with a well designed, useful service (your Medgadget editors have been playing around with it). We had a chance to chat with Jeff (co-founder of...
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July 5th, 2011 We've previously reported on a novel blood pressure measurement technology by Singapore-based HealthSTATS International. In short, they're using microscopic arterial pulse waves from the radial artery to monitor a patient's blood pressure at the wrist. In a partnership with HP, cellular provider SingTel, and healthcare provider...
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