MedTech Founders Club

A wireless sensor the size of a matchbook, built to keep soldiers alive on the battlefield, is now being pointed at heart failure patients in American hospitals.Casey Boutwell and Dan Rodenhaver join The MedTech Founders Club to tell the story behind Envello Medical.

Six months to wait. Seven minutes to be seen.That's the VA appointment that started everything for Doug Benoit. After nearly 24 years in the U.S. military — Marine Corps at seventeen, Army intelligence officer through three campaigns — Doug came home with PTSD and a traumatic brain injury. What he didn't expect was that the system meant to take care of him couldn't actually see him.So he built something that could.In episode 1 of The MedTech Founders Club, Doug shares how a six-month wait at the VA, a 90-day road trip across America with twenty-two of the veterans he served with, and a question that wouldn't go away became FacialDx — a non-invasive AI screening platform that identifies 156 biomarkers from a series of facial photographs.What you'll hear:• Why the screening crisis in American medicine is a body count• What 24 years of service taught Doug about how the system fails the people it's built for• The 90-day road trip that became FacialDx's first proof• Why traditional facial diagnostic medicine — practiced for 2,000 years — was missing one thing• What he wants other medtech founders to knowLearn more about Doug & FacialDx → https://facialdx.com