Zach Kaufman, Author at Medgadget Medgadget

Zach Kaufman

Zach is a passionate medical technology and healthcare startup enthusiast based within the burgeoning venture powerhouse that is Cleveland, Ohio. By way of an ongoing Venture for America fellowship, he is currently serving in product development and management capacities for ImageIQ — an early-stage imaging CRO originally spun out of The Cleveland Clinic. Zach holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis. Zach is extremely excited to follow along with Medgadget readers as our time's innovations in medical technology are revealed!

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An Interview with Richard Lin, CEO of Microbiome Wellness Company Thryve

May 15th, 2017 Based in Sunnyvale, California and established less than a year ago, wellness company Thryve is attempting to revolutionize the way in which individuals understand and interact with their microbiomes. Thryve offers gut testing kits and direct-to-consumer supplements to assist with balancing the bacterial, yeast, and viral content...

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QuiO and MedCrypt Partner to Add Data Security Sophistication to Smartinjector Devices

February 16th, 2017 QuiO’s Smartinjector platform, as covered previously on Medgadget, is poised to become the first set of cloud-connected injectable therapy delivery devices available for in-home use. Following their recognition at January’s Accenture Startup Health Festival as the winner of the HealthTech Innovation Challenge, the QuiO team has...

Diagnostics

RJL Systems Launches the Quantum V BIA Device for Body Composition Analysis

February 9th, 2017 RJL Systems, a company based in Clinton Township, Michigan, launched last week the latest successor in their line of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) products, the Quantum V. The Michigan-based company, often considered the originators and chief innovators of BIA instrumentation for use in determining body composition, has...

Medicine

Holoxica Developing 3D Holographic Display for Interactive Visualization of Medical Imaging Data

January 9th, 2017 Holoxica Limited, based out of the United Kingdom’s CodeBase accelerator and working in conjunction with scientists at ACTPHAST (the Access Center for Photonics Innovations Solutions and Technology Support), is currently developing interactive holographic video technology with significant potential applications in medical imaging...

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The Complete Anatomy Platform: An Interview with Niall Johnston, President of 3D4Medical

December 19th, 2016 3D4Medical's (Dublin, Ireland) award-winning Complete Anatomy digital educational platform facilitates the exploration of human anatomical characteristics that are difficult to visualize via traditional methods or without hands-on training. The system, widely employed in medical education at the university level, offers...

Diagnostics

An Interview with Gene Saragnese, Chairman & CEO of MedyMatch Technology

December 9th, 2016 MedyMatch Technology, a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, leverages artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision technologies to offer patient-specific clinical decision support. Their application helps radiologists and emergency room physicians to detect signs of intracranial hemorrhages, which are difficult to...

Radiology

DiCoMo’s Novel X-Ray Detector Technology to Allow for Low-Dose, High-Resolution Imaging and Diagnosis

November 11th, 2016 The DiCoMo (“Direct conversion hybrid-organic X-ray detectors on metal oxide backplane”) Project promises to remove the need for diagnosticians to reconcile the value of high-resolution scanning with the safety concerns associated with exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation through the development of a novel X-ray detector....

Diagnostics

COBIOPHAD Device Promises Quicker, More Efficient Drug Allergy Diagnosis

November 9th, 2016 The COBIOPHAD (Compact Biophotonic Platform for Drug Allergy Diagnosis) Project, an initiative of the Photonics Public Private Partnership, has led to the development of a faster, low-cost allergy detector device that project coordinators aim to have available in hospitals as soon as in the next five years. Upwards of 5.4 million...

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QuiO’s Smartinjector Connected Drug Delivery Device Anticipates 2017 Release

October 31st, 2016 With the launch of QuiO‘s initial Smartinjector product, the Si One, the company aims to provide the first real-time, connected drug delivery device for injectable therapies. Their Internet of Things (IoT) enabled device and its companion software, which allows medical professionals to monitor adherence and support treatment...

Orthopedic Surgery

Touch Surgery, Episurf Medical Release Episealer Surgical Training Simulation

October 21st, 2016 Last week saw the public release of a collaborative project from Touch Surgery and Episurf Medical aimed at providing a surgical simulation training tool for Episurf Medical’s Episealer line of personalized knee resurfacing implants. Touch Surgery, based in London, UK, is a mobile-first platform for the surgical community....

Cardiac Surgery

LuxCath Optical System for Tissue Assessment Promises Simplified Cardiac Ablation Procedures

December 16th, 2015 LuxCath, an Allied Minds company, announced this week the promising results of their namesake system in its first-in-man study. The LuxCath utilizes optical technology to directly characterize tissue during cardiac ablation procedures (which are a common, minimally invasive treatment to correct arrhythmias). In essence, the novel...

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