No 128 AKI AL-ZUBAIDI
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THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 3,131%
Aki Al-Zubaidi was an interventional pulmonologist in Colorado who’d become fed up with the U.S. health care system. Specifically, he was shocked to find that hospitals weren’t tracking patients who’d had incidental pulmonary nodules turn up in scans; left unchecked, the small growths can develop into lung cancer. In 2015, Al-Zubaidi created patient-management software to flag the tissue abnormalities in medical records and then automatically notify both patient and doctor about the necessary follow-up exams. Six years