Earl Bakken, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Medtronic Inc. the world’s largest manufacturer of cardiac implantable devices, invited EpiHelp...

...to the Medtronic world headquarters in Fridley, Minnesota in August. The inventor of the pacemaker and founder of North Hawaiian Community Hospital, an acute care hospital that diagnoses and treats patients as a whole person – mind, body and spirit;  invited Raimar Boehlke, Dave Durenberger and Markus Mitter of EpiHelp for a morning meeting to present the EpiHelp application concept and business model.

Earl holds major concerns about the medical systems as they stand today. He referred to statistics such as “20% percent of patients have a false diagnosis leading to 100,000 deaths in the U.S. per year” he also stated that “physicians often treat symptoms rather than healing causes”.

After Raimar explained the working principles of a structured database and according possibilities to derive user tools from these databases, Earl recognized EpiHelp as a tool that gathers expertise and experience from all users and potential disciplines. And as an inventor in the healthcare field with a long history of success, he also realized the opportunities that EpiHelp will be able to provide to a 21st century global healthcare community.

Picture from left to right: Dave Durenberger/EpiHelp, James Dallas/Medtronic, Earl Bakken, Markus Mitter/EpiHelp, Raimar Boehlke/EpiHelp.