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TapestryHealth Wants to Catch the Crisis Before the Night Shift
A nursing home can have plenty of data and too little time to act on it. TapestryHealth connects bedside monitoring, risk reports and clinicians in a bid to make the warning arrive before the ambulance.
Saroj Gupta
Dr. Saroj Gupta is the founder and CEO of MyDigiRecords (MDR), a patient-owned digital health records app that lets people store, organize, and share their medical history, medications, and immunizations from their phone. A Harvard-trained geriatrics dentist who taught at UMKC, Harvard, and the University of Maryland before turning entrepreneur, she built MDR after her own experience immigrating from India without vaccination records. Founded in 2022 and launched to consumers in 2023, MDR now serves 40,000+ users across India, integrates with the government's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, and partners with 20+ hospitals and clinics.
David Werdegar
Dr. David Werdegar, MD, MPH is the former President and CEO of Institute on Aging (IOA), San Francisco's leading nonprofit dedicated to helping older adults and adults with disabilities live with dignity and independence. A physician trained at New York Medical College and UCSF, Werdegar transformed IOA from a community program into a comprehensive elder-care organization serving thousands annually across the San Francisco Bay Area. Under his watch, IOA opened a landmark 50,000-square-foot campus on Geary Boulevard in 2011, consolidating programs spanning home care, dementia day enrichment, and the 24/7 Friendship Line warmline. He retired in 2022 after steering the organization to nearly $100 million in annual revenue with a staff of around 900.