HBS Mom Forms Company to Tackle Brain-Based Disorders Through Data Analytics

What do you do when you have a child that’s suffering from a neurological disorder and nothing seems to work? What do you do when each visit to the doctor leads to more questions and more confusions. It’s a scenario that no mother wants to go through, yet Malekeh Amini found herself in with her son. “He was diagnosed with one neurological disorder at the age of 5, then another when he was six and another,” Amini told MD+DI. “It just continued to become more and more complex. After running around from one clinic to another and not knowing how to manage his symptoms and not knowing really how to treat him, I walked away completely lost and alone in the process.” Amini, an engineer with more than 20 years in healthcare, took action by creating her own company to help develop applications that could give greater insight on patients suffering from neurological disorders. Her firm’s name is Trayt and it has raised about $2 million in funding. The Red Wood City, CA-based company has just launched the Trayt app, a track-and-map application for parents, caregivers, and physicians that collects and analyzes comprehensive, individualized health data to facilitate a more rapid and relevant response to the daily challenges that confront patients with brain-based disorders. “I really took this approach of wanting to understand patients holistically,” she said. “I wanted to know what was really wrong with my son and how I would take care of him given all of the different...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Digital Health Business Source Type: news