Shiv Gaglani

Shiv Gaglani is an MD/MBA candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Harvard Business School. In addition to curating the Smartphone Physical (www.smartphonephysical.org), he also contributes regularly to CardioSource World News and Emergency Physicians Monthly. He is interested in developing scalable, tech-based solutions for medicine and education; to this end he is the co-founder of the medical education tech start-up, Osmosis (www.osmosis.org).  More about Shiv: http://about.me/sgaglani

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June 29th, 2015 We recently had the opportunity to speak with Tetsuji Kunishi, the president of Tokyo-based medical technology company DCC K.K, about his company's innovative hearing aid technology. Unlike most hearing aids, which rely on air conduction, the DCC K.K.'s PRESTIN hearing aid relies on bone conduction and a technology called...
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April 3rd, 2015 In February, I presented at an educational conference of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. After my talk I met sleep physician Dr. Clifford Molin who has developed ZeeAppnea, an app that utilizes a smartphone to provide a ubiquitous way of determining sleep apnea risk. The app does not require special equipment, but rather utilizes...
Art

August 20th, 2014 Patient education and engagement will clearly be of greater importance to the health care system under the Affordable Care Act. Short digital animations help fill this niche and one of the leading companies in the field is Blausen, which we last covered more than two years ago. We recently caught up with their CEO, Bruce Blausen, to...
Diagnostics

August 19th, 2014 Novel applications of principles from the fields of physics and math have led to countless medical breakthroughs, ranging from the electrocardiogram to magnetic resonance imaging. We had the opportunity to speak with Harry Bullivant of UK-based The Technology Partnership (TTP) about a potentially disruptive gas-sensing technology called...
Cardiology

July 10th, 2014 We recently came across COSMED, a company focusing on cardiopulmonary testing, and were intrigued by their diverse customer list, which ranges from the NIH to the NFL Scouting Combine. We had the opportunity to speak with their VP of Business Development, Claudio Bellini, about their cardiopulmonary technologies. Shiv Gaglani,...
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July 8th, 2014 This is the summer of the Quantified Smoker. In May we wrote about the Quitbit, a smartphone-connected lighter that successfully met its Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign. Now a team based in Paris has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the development of Kosmo, a connected eCigarette with an associated coaching app. We had the...
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June 12th, 2014 The empowered and engaged patient is the Holy Grail of health care. If patients were able to - and wanted to - manage their own health proactively so that the healthcare system would be less reactive we would see reduced costs and improved outcomes. There are a number of technologies ranging from Quantified Self wearable devices to...
Dermatology

June 11th, 2014 At Medgadget we're optimistic about the potential of IBM's Watson computer to improve clinical workflow and efficiency, which is why we were excited to learn about the first integration of Watson into an EMR. Modernizing Medicine has staked its claim in a relatively crowded EMR space by focusing on specialty-based medicine, such as...
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With the explosion of health-related apps, it's no surprise that developers are releasing increasingly specialized and sophisticated mobile tools. One such tool is CancerRx, an app meant to inform healthcare providers on the increasingly mainstream field of precision oncology. Co-developed by MedPage Today and CollabRx, CancerRx...
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