Healthcare Professional Entrepreneurship and Advocating for the Underserved with Dr. Jay Joshi | The Public Health Pharmacist

What does public health mean to you? Public health is the intersection where individual patient decisions meet public policy, where medicine meets law. Bio Output Medical was founded by Dr. Jay K Joshi as an Intern managing complex Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients. Concerned by the limitations of manual urine output measurements and subsequent kidney care management, he set out to develop a technology that would improve the measuring and recording of urine output to help patients with kidney injury or kidney failure. Born out of a need to improve urine output measurements, Output Medical is passionate about kidney management and saving patient lives. Abnormally low urine output (known as oliguria) is a leading indicator of acute kidney injury (AKI) among ICU patients. AKI is a rapid and dangerous loss of kidney function which seriously impacts a patient's quality of care: it increases mortality, cost of care, length of stay, and readmission. AKI occurs in 20% of all ICU admissions each year, meaning approximately two million patients in the U.S. for whom regular and automatic urine output monitoring could improve their health. The average additional cost of a patient with AKI is nearly $16,000, a significant cost to patients and hospitals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices