Opinion

June 18, 2019

Shiny moonshot tech is what healthcare needs

Healthcare needs help with the basics — but it also needs radical new health tech solutions to tackle some of society’s biggest problems, argues investor Vishal Gulati in response to a piece on Sifted.


Vishal Gulati

5 min read

A boy in an Iron Lung at the Naval Hosptial C 1960. Photo by Don Pinder.

Healthcare innovation is an important topic. In 1928, an invention called an iron lung saved the life of an eight-year-old girl with polio. The cumbersome, coffin-like contraption, created by Harvard professor Dr Philip Drinker, used an electric motor connected to two vacuum cleaners. All but the head of the patient was placed inside an air-tight chamber, and through the huge bellows attached, the patient’s lungs were pumped and emptied of air until they could breathe again. This could take hours, days, or weeks.

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Image of a boy in an Iron Lung at the Naval Hosptial C 1960, and a doctor and a nurse standing around it. The Iron Lung was a healthcare innovation that saved many lives.
A boy in an Iron Lung at the Naval Hosptial C 1960. Photo by Don Pinder.
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Image of the functionality of healthcare innovation HeartFlow; the mobile dashboard and how you can monitor HeartFlow in the human body.
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