Gecko Health Innovations


Overview

Gecko Health was founded in 2012 in MIT (Cambridge, MA) with a mission to simplify chronic disease management for patients, families, and health systems. Starting with respiratory diseases, our product, CareTRx, is a platform that combines sensors, clinically-based algorithms, and remote monitoring. It includes a sensor that attaches to existing inhalers and connects to smartphones and a cloud-based population health dashboard for clinicians.

Management Team

CEO

Yechiel Engelhard

Innovative physician with over 15 years of clinical, research, and administrative experience including practice management and mobile health IT implementations. Captain in the Israeli Special Air Forces leading medical and rescue teams in combat. Co-founded, operated, and advised multiple medical and HC IT companies including Healarium, athenahealth and CuraMed. Yechiel has an MD (BGU, ‘03), MHA (BGU 10'), and MBA (MIT/Sloan, ’12).

CTO

Mark Maalouf

Mark spent 5 years at Microsoft as a developer, engineering manager and team leader in the CRM business unit. Mark also worked at Samsung Telecommunications and started a sports data analysis company. Mark has a Bachelors in EE (McGill, ’02), a Masters in EE (McGill, ‘05), and an MBA (MIT/Sloan, ’12).