Salvatore Viscomi - The Hospital at Home

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Salvatore Viscomi, M.D. is CEO of Carna Health, a digital platform that is making it easier for patients with chronic conditions to do tests at home that would normally have to be done in the hospital.

Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.

Highlights:

• Sal Daher Introduces Salvatore Viscomi
• What Carna Health is Solving
• "... We connect the device to our platform, we collect the data, we stage the disease, and then we share that information with the patient-provider..."
• "... The solution is really to bring the testing to the community, identify the 90% of people that don't know they have it, let them know they have it..."
• "... The devices on their own without connectivity and without a platform are really not a scalable solution for the type of programs that are needed to make an impact on these diseases ... The doctors are connected through a physician portal, and we identify all the people that are being screened..."
• Carna Health's Business Model
• "... We don't want our patients, necessarily, who are not feeling well, have medical conditions, to be exposed to other patients and potentially get infected..."
• "... One of the ways that Carna Health enables hospital home, is that it provides some of that testing in real-time, so patients don't need to go into a laboratory or phlebotomist..."
• Digital Twins: What Are They?
• Salvatore's Entrepreneurial Journey
• Advice to the Audience
• "... I think our system has been based on being very reactive to disease as opposed to prevention. The truth is that about 80% of longevity is determined by you and your environment and 20% by your genetics..."

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