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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March 24th, 2014 Nanotechnology continues to hold significant promise for medicine, though not only in the form of nanorobots that swim through the blood stream. We recently had the opportunity to speak with Matthew Putman, the CEO of Nanotronics, which is developing cutting-edge diagnostic systems for medicine among other fields. Shiv...
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March 4th, 2014 We've noticed an increasing number of physicians turning to entrepreneurship to effect change in the health care system. Recently, we had the opportunity to speak with one such clinician, Dr. Kourosh Parsapour, about personalRN, a company he founded to improve patient education and reduce readmissions. Shiv Gaglani, Medgadget: What is...
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March 3rd, 2014 After presenting at the MD&M Conference in Anaheim, I had the opportunity to meet Todd Gisby, the CTO of an innovative New Zealand-based company called StretchSense. He made the trip across the Pacific to attend a medical tech conference because he sees significant potential applications of his company's stretch sensors in our field....
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February 19th, 2014 We have been covering LifeScan since 2006, a company that's been a strong player in the diabetes care space, offering blood glucose monitors and strips. LifeScan recently announced that its OneTouch VerioSync system is now Bluetooth-enabled so that it automatically shares its readings with paired smartphones for easy tracking of blood...
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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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