News that Tissue Analytics inked a deal with Intermountain Healthcare to roll out its wound monitoring technology across the Salt Lake City health system was a major coup for a young healthcare technology business. So here’s some perspective on how the company arrived at this point in its development and how it is working with Intermountain rolling out its technology platform.

Before cofounding Tissue Analytics, Kevin Keenahan and Josh Budman were just completing a project to earn their master’s degrees. As graduate biomedical engineering students inside the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Keenahan and Budman were observing nurses and doctors treat wounds in hospitals and clinics in Baltimore in 2013. Both already had their post-graduate lives set up: Keenahan had accepted a job at a healthcare consulting firm in Boston and Budman was enrolled in the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. But their time spent watching how wound data was collected in a clinical setting motivated them to form the Baltimore-based startup that creates smartphone-enabled, wound-imaging software.

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A Video Conversation with Kevin Keenahan, Co-founder and CEO of Tissue Analytics