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 6th, 2014 At Medgadget we speak with quite a few physicians-turned-entrepreneurs, and one of the most enthusiastic and impressive we've known is Dr. Amy Baxter. We first met Dr. Baxter at the AARP conference in Atlanta last October where she was showing off a simple, yet effective tool she developed for pain relief called "Buzzy." There's been a...
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May 21st, 2014 The coming changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act will require clinicians and hospitals to do a better job of managing the health of patients with chronic diseases. A recent tool called HealthCrew has launched in private beta to manage patients with diabetes and heart disease. We had the opportunity to speak with their co-founder,...
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May 20th, 2014 The number of mobile-connected health devices continues to proliferate. We recently came across one that stood out, even among the cool ideas and form factors that we've come to expect from the Quantified Self movement. Similar to how the Fitbit tracks steps, the Quitbit is a smartphone-compatible lighter that tracks every time you...
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April 17th, 2014 Four years ago Medgadget awarded Dr. Zubin Damania the “Best New Medical Weblog” award for his hilarious and educational persona, “ZDoggMD.” We came across his name again at last year’s TEDMED where he gave one of the most memorable talks of the event, during which he announced that he was teaming up with Tony Hsieh of Zappos...
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April 15th, 2014 Gamification is one of the trendiest topics these days within healthcare. Supporters believe that it can change the game (pun intended) for how we engage and motivate patients, because ultimately that will be how healthcare becomes more preventative as opposed to reactive. Medgadget has covered a number of games for health, including...
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April 14th, 2014 What do you get when you mix Google Glass and EEG? That's the question that the people at Ottawa-based Personal Neuro are on their way to answering. Given the buzz around how Google Glass can be used in healthcare, and our longstanding interest in brain-computer interface, we took the opportunity to speak with Personal Neuro's CEO,...
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April 3rd, 2014 Anyone in the medical field knows that there are hundreds of journals to choose from for virtually every specialty. Unless you have an astronomic impact factor or serve a highly unique niche, it's hard to stand out. One that certainly has stood out to us is the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), which is a peer-reviewed scientific...
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