Healthcare Tomorrow: Pitching The Future
Oct 15, 2026 · 12 min · 7 segments
Today, we're joined by Dr. Salvatore Viscomi, CEO and co-founder of Carna Health. Carna is an AI-driven platform built to detect, manage, and prevent Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome. In just the…
Salvatore ViscomiGuestPitching the Future HostHost
Corona health started really, I think there were two important moments in my life about five years ago.
One was a professional moment where a medical device company had asked for my analysis on point of care testing portfolio they had.
And these are small handheld or desktop devices that measure biomarkers from blood and urine in a more accessible way.
And in that process of analyzing the market for these devices, I looked at where the solutions were needed.
And as I investigated chronic kidney disease, I saw, well, this is a problem that affects a billion people in the world with the prevalence and mortality going in the wrong direction.
And what I saw in terms of what people... were solving for, well, their medications are improving, dialysis is improving, and there's home dialysis and more dialysis and all sorts of different types of dialysis.
So that was an important professional moment as me as a physician to realize that something should be done.
And then on a personal level, around the same time, I was planning my wedding and I was at the bank wiring money to the wedding venue.
And the kind agent that was supporting me there, and she says, I miss my husband.
And she opened up and she said her husband died in his early 30s, not that long ago, from kidney disease.
And so what happened to him is he crashed into dialysis, meaning that he was never diagnosed with kidney disease until he ended up in the emergency room one day.
uh and told him that he needed to be on dialysis or so the lice unfortunately for him dialysis where he was located was not reliable uh they lost power and that meant the toxins built in his blood and he passed away at a young age and and this is a story now that i've heard many times around the world And so those two moments, both on a professional level and on a personal, realized that we need to do something different.
We really needed to create a solution around prevention that was sustainable and that worked.
We're spending money on the sequelae of disease rather than spending a lot less on preventing them.
Corona health started really, I think there were two important moments in my life about five years ago.
One was a professional moment where a medical device company had asked for my analysis on point of care testing portfolio they had.
And these are small handheld or desktop devices that measure biomarkers from blood and urine in a more accessible way.
And in that process of analyzing the market for these devices, I looked at where the solutions were needed.
And as I investigated chronic kidney disease, I saw, well, this is a problem that affects a billion people in the world with the prevalence and mortality going in the wrong direction.
And what I saw in terms of what people... were solving for, well, their medications are improving, dialysis is improving, and there's home dialysis and more dialysis and all sorts of different types of dialysis.
So that was an important professional moment as me as a physician to realize that something should be done.
And then on a personal level, around the same time, I was planning my wedding and I was at the bank wiring money to the wedding venue.
And the kind agent that was supporting me there, and she says, I miss my husband.
And she opened up and she said her husband died in his early 30s, not that long ago, from kidney disease.
And so what happened to him is he crashed into dialysis, meaning that he was never diagnosed with kidney disease until he ended up in the emergency room one day.
uh and told him that he needed to be on dialysis or so the lice unfortunately for him dialysis where he was located was not reliable uh they lost power and that meant the toxins built in his blood and he passed away at a young age and and this is a story now that i've heard many times around the world And so those two moments, both on a professional level and on a personal, realized that we need to do something different.
We really needed to create a solution around prevention that was sustainable and that worked.
We're spending money on the sequelae of disease rather than spending a lot less on preventing them.
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