This episode of Inside MedTech Innovation explores the evolution of point-of-care ultrasound in emergency medicine, the challenges of healthcare technology integration, and what it takes to transform medical training from the inside. Topics include how ultrasound replaced invasive diagnostic procedures, the middleware gap in health IT, why free open access medical education is democratizing clinical knowledge, and the importance of involving clinicians in medical device devel

What happens when a healthcare pioneer becomes the patient? When someone who spent decades building remote patient monitoring systems suddenly needs those very systems to save his own life? This is the story of Steve Brown—founder and CEO of CureWise, digital health pioneer, and cancer patient who nearly missed his own diagnosis. Until the Palisades Fire saved his life. Steve's journey from creating video games for kids with diabetes in the 1990s to building AI-powered cancer

Oleg Yusim has built cybersecurity teams at Baxter, Edwards Lifesciences, and Illumina. At each company, he faced the same challenge: products shipping with shared passwords, executives questioning the business case, and security budgets under constant scrutiny. The pattern repeated. Leadership would say cybersecurity mattered. Then came questions about cost, timeline impact, and whether partial security was acceptable. Most security leaders struggle with these conversations.

When your insulin pump connects to your phone, or your glucose monitor shares data with the cloud, is it secure? More importantly—what does "secure" even mean? These are the questions at the heart of my recent conversation with Jacob Combs, Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Cybersecurity at Tandem Diabetes Care. Jacob brings deep expertise from across telecom, defense, financial services, and healthcare—and now protects connected devices that deliver life-sustainin

A 30-year-old producer at CNET was losing weight fast, constantly thirsty, experiencing blurry vision. Two different doctors gave him metformin, a Type 2 diabetes drug, and sent him on his way. For six months, Justin Eastzer felt isolated, scared, and progressively worse. The doctors never ran the autoantibody test that would've revealed Type 1 diabetes. Then Justin made a TikTok video about a blood glucose meter that sent data to his phone via Bluetooth. He thought the tech

A software company was using Zendesk to track customer feedback. Every issue, from "can't log in" to actual product defects, was automatically categorized as a "complaint." Thousands of them. When Kyle Rose, president of Rook Quality Systems, showed up for their first internal audit, he found exactly what FDA reviewers would've found: a massive compliance gap that could've killed their regulatory submission. This wasn't a careless startup. This was a functioning medical devic

From 5G networks to space station surgery, exploring the invisible infrastructure that makes modern healthcare possible Remote surgery between continents. Glucose monitors competing with Netflix streams for wireless bandwidth. Surgical robots on the International Space Station. None of this is science fiction, it's the cutting edge of medical technology that Dr. Omar Al-Kalaa has been working to make safe, effective, and accessible. In this episode of Inside MedTech Innovati

The pain hit instantly. Dr. Jennifer Hackett had walked into hundreds of classrooms over her teaching career, but this newly renovated...

The year 2002 marked a turning point in cybersecurity history, though few realized it at the time. Microsoft was hemorrhaging customers...

The moment that changes everything isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it's a phone call. [00:11:00] Lane Desborough was at work when his...

A conversation with Elina Ontiskansky on removing stigma, embracing personalization, and treating the whole human in obesity medicine...

Reflections from my conversation with Ed Gaudet, CEO of Censinet Listen to the episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0idCT...

A conversation with Dr. Richard O'Neill on regulatory innovation, market optimization, and the challenges of implementing change in...

Nor would they want you to. Treat FDAers as humans, understand the context of your conversation, and remember your common goals....

The National Academies of Science released a publication on Cyber Hard Problems . I thought it would be about post-quantum cryptography,...

Matthew Holt on the Healthcare Status Quo, Data Access, and the Power Struggle Behind Digital Health “If you want to change the system,...