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    Brandon Ballinger

    Brandon Ballinger

    Data for good. Co-Founder @cardiogram. Previously: HealthCare.gov rescue team, Co-Founder @sift-science, Staff Software Engineer @google.

    Software Engineer San Francisco University of Washing...
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    Experience
    Cardiogram
    Cardiogram
    Founder 2016 - Present (over 10 years)
    Preventing the preventable, starting with what can be detected from heart rate data from Apple Watch and Android Wear. Stay tuned!
    UC San Francisco
    UC San Francisco
    Data Scientist 2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)
    There's really no such thing as a data scientist in a cardiology department, but the folks at the UCSF Health eHeart Study were kind enough to let me hang around and learn... more about the future of medicine. Our collaboration is continuing as part of the upcoming mRhythm Study, using Apple Watch and Android Wear to detect a potentially life-threatening heart rhythm.
    healthcare.gov
    healthcare.gov
    Bug fixer 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)
    Part of a small team of startup and ex-Google folks drafted to help fix healthcare.gov.
    Sift
    Sift
    Founder 2011 - 2013 (almost 2 years)
    Google
    Google
    Software Engineer 2006 - 2011 (about 5 years)
    Cardiogram
    Cardiogram
    Employee
    Founder
    Sift, Cardiogram
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    Google, healthcare.gov, UC San Francisco, Cardiogram
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    Projects
    Oscar Health now covers Cardiogram Care
    Cardiogram Care
    Members of Oscar health insurance will be continuously monitored for multiple health conditions like diabetes and atrial fibrillation.
    Jack Song
    Kaiyu Hsu
    Johnson Hsieh
    Harish Kilaru
    With Harish Kilaru, Johnson Hsieh, Kaiyu Hsu, Jack Song
    Cardiogram 1.0
    Native watchOS app and heart rate complication
    Johnson Hsieh
    With Johnson Hsieh
    mRhythm Study
    Can a smart watch save you from a stroke?
    Using deep learning and heart rate data to detect atrial fibrillation, the most common abnormal heart rhythm. This study is run in partnership with the… · More Health eHeart project at UCSF Cardiology.
    Geoff Tison
    Gregory Marcus
    Jeffrey Olgin
    Johnson Hsieh
    With Johnson Hsieh, Jeffrey Olgin, Gregory Marcus , Geoff Tison
    Cardiogram Habits
    Don't just track, act.
    An “App Store for Habits.” Each Habit packages up an evidence-based behavior that has been shown to work in the medical literature, and pairs it with an… · More objective biomarker of whether it’s working for you.
    Stephanie Yee
    Johnson Hsieh
    Kaiyu Hsu
    With Kaiyu Hsu, Johnson Hsieh, Stephanie Yee
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Called in by the White House to help fix Healthcare.gov, co-founded Sift Science (machine learning for anti-fraud) and Cardiogram (machine learning for health), tech lead of Android Voice Input at Google.

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    Locations
    New York City
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