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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February 17th, 2014 Over the past few years we've seen smartphone-based weight scales, activity monitors, and blood pressure cuffs go mainstream. It seems that at least a couple new devices enter the marketplace every week. One of the most intriguing entrants recently is BleepBleeps, the brainchild of UK-designer Tom Evans. The company just launched a...
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February 4th, 2014 At CES last month we had the opportunity to see the latest and greatest in digital health innovation. One of the earliest and most active companies in this space is iHeath Lab, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Andon Health. We had the opportunity to speak with their president, Adam Lin, about the company and their vision moving...
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January 22nd, 2014 As we've been covering over the past few years, tablets are increasingly permeating the health care environment. More and more medical students are receiving iPads as part of their tuition and some hospitalists are bringing their Surface tablets to work. In this milieu it's no surprise that there's been a proliferation of peripherals...
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January 21st, 2014 Have you ever wanted to build your own (safe) brain-computer interface device? This is the year you may be able to do that, thanks to the folks at OpenBCI. They're wrapping up a successful Kickstarter project this week to create a "customizable and fully open brain-computer interface platform that gives you access to high-quality brain...
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January 8th, 2014 Medgadget is here in Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show for the 5th Annual Digital Health Summit. Last year Forbes called 2013 the "Year of Digital Health," but based on what we've already seen at CES - and as Rock Health summarized nicely - maybe 2014 will claim that title. Part of the "Living in Digital Times" theme of CES, the...
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December 23rd, 2013 Earlier this month we wrote about precision oncology, which involves injecting multiple drugs into the same tumor to determine which agent is most effective. Once this is known, a follow up question would be how best to deliver that agent so that it maximizes destruction of the cancer while minimizing harm to healthy tissue. In order to...
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December 19th, 2013 Anyone who's had the experience of wading through databases of medical research papers has likely asked herself, "Isn't there a better way?" That's what Mitesh Patel and his team at Docphin thought of when they created their tool, hailed by TechCrunch as the "Bloomberg for Doctors." A physician entrepreneur who's also serving as a...
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December 16th, 2013 If you are an entrepreneur, you probably already know who Steve Blank is. If you want to be an entrepreneur, you definitely should know who he is. Described by many as one of the "Godfathers of Silicon Valley," Steve has had a successful career as a serial entrepreneur-turned-professor who wrote the definitive Startup Owner's Manual...
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December 4th, 2013 Networking, collaboration, and partnership with others is a major part of a lot of professionals' daily life in nearly all industries today. Doctors and their work are particularly influenced by professional relationships, and an entire movement exists to facilitate new interactions between physicians. To get a better idea of what's...
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December 3rd, 2013 As the costs of sequencing and drug testing continue to be driven down, we'll increasingly see technologies that take into account differences between people and even within people. The hope is that this will lead to ultra-personalized medicine. One of the most anticipated use cases is in oncology because there is even a level of...
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