Started Corazonix in 1985.
Sold to Arrhythmia Research Technology in 1991.
Started Data Critical in 1995.
Went public in 1999 (DCCA: NASDAQ).
Sold to GE Healthcare in 2001.
Worked at GE Healthcare on New Technologies and Products.
Left GE as Chief Clinical Scientist of GE Cardiology in 2004.
Started InnovAlarm in 2004.
InnovAlarm will be split into three separate startups, each addressing unique opportunities and markets. Lifetone introduced our first product, the LIfetone HL Fire Alarm and Clock as the first UL-listed, patented low frequency and tactile fire alarm in the guise of a standard alarm clock. It is the most effective alarm for awakening all at risk people in a night time fire emergency.
Started AliveCor in 2010 to commercialize my smartphone ECG invention as one of the earliest and most clinically validated digital health innovations.
60 issued US patents, 25 currently pending.
100 published abstracts and journal articles in the Cardiovascular Literature
Specialties: Cardiovascular diagnostic devices (ECG, echo, CT, MRI, nuclear)
Audio digital signal processing (alarms, Doppler Echo)
Patents (software and devices)
David Albert has been a guest on 1 episode.
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From Clinician to $100M MedTech Giant: Dr. David Albert, Founder of AliveCor
May 6th, 2026 | Season 3 | 52 mins 20 secs
Dr. David Albert, founder of AliveCor and pioneer of digital health technology, joins DeAndre Harakas and Grant Chapman for a deep dive into building a regulated medical device company from scratch. From prototyping the first smartphone EKG using a gutted Mophie case and ultrasonic signal transmission to bootstrapping early revenue by selling to veterinarians, Dr. Albert shares the guerrilla engineering and entrepreneurial grit behind one of the most impactful consumer medical devices ever created.