In a pandemic-tinged world, telehealth has proven itself to be an important tool in modern medicine. Dr. Erika Dillard wants to take that one step farther with a device that consistently monitors the patient with little effort. And though she’s no longer based in Philadelphia, a locally focused startup booster is helping her do it.
Dillard is the founder and CEO of PopCheck Technologies, a medical device startup that is developing a remote monitoring device to detect postoperative complications. Dillard’s background is in neurosurgery, where she saw lots of patients deal with post-op complications.
“The problem with monitoring for those things is that once the patient leaves the hospital, there’s really no one watching them or observing them besides themselves or their family member or a caretaker,” she told Technical.ly.
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