Our latest interviewee is David M. Spiro MD, MPH – a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician, and co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of ReelDx Education. Dr. Spiro went to medical school at UCSF, and has started incorporating video into the clinical setting while on faculty at Yale University in 2003. Since that time, he has been fascinated with the intersection of technology and clinical medicine… Here’s what Dr. Spiro had to say.

How would you pitch your company? What’s your elevator pitch?

ReelDx Education is the first online, peer reviewed HIPAA compliant platform of real patient cases. We are utilized directly by health professional schools such as medical/nursing institutions for students to learn medicine via real patient experiences, online. ReelDx Education is just one example of a use case for asynchronous video. Our platform behind the scenes, called the medvid.io ecosystem, allows any application to upload/store/share rich media.

What sets you apart from competitors?

First mover advantage.

What’s your business model?

Institutions are those that pay for the platform, which is then free to their students. Also, we have strategic partners such as Osmosis and Prodigy that are integrating our content. For the medvid.io ecosystem, we charge for upload/storage/sharing of rich media.

Can you share some numbers? How many users do you have?

We have over 10,000 registered users of ReelDx, and many institutions have signed up since we started charging for services. Prior to the paywall, we had 120,000 cases viewed the previous year. For the medvid.io ecosystem, we have 130+ companies registered to add HIPAA compliant, asynchronous video to their applications.

Where do you see the company going from here?

We are growing rapidly. I see ReelDx Education used for case based learning in every medical/nursing/dental school in 3-5 years. Also, I see the medvid.io ecosystem as the hub for HIPAA compliant rich media.

Where do you see the mHealth industry going?

Growing rapidly.

How long are we from seeing modern mHealth technologies going mainstream?

2-3 years.