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The co-founders of a Johns Hopkins-backed startup had personal motivations for developing better health care tracking technology.

The mother of Sathya Elumala, who is CEO of Multisensor Diagnostics, suffers from multiple chronic health conditions and spends time in hospitals almost every month. Gene Fridman, the company's chief technology officer, lost a sister who had a chronic condition that wasn't detected soon enough.