Dr. John Bloom (CEO) and David Linders (Chief Product Officer), co-founders of Podimetrics, explore how a chance encounter at MIT's first Hacking Medicine hackathon in 2011 sparked a company that's now saving lives and transforming diabetic foot care.

Podimetrics has developed the Smart Mat—a remote patient monitoring device that detects early signs of diabetic foot ulcers before they become medical emergencies. With diabetic foot complications hiding across 200 billing codes and costing payers billions annually, most healthcare systems didn't even know the scope of the problem until Podimetrics showed them.

We also tour their Somerville, Massachusetts facility, meet their team, and get a hands-on demo of the next-generation Smart Mat+.

This is a story about persistence, patient-centered design, and proving that preventative care can work—even in a healthcare system built around treatment.