Anthony Dann’s Journey from Patient to Founder
Some companies are born from market opportunity, others are born from lived experience.
For Anthony Dann, Founder and CEO of Biometrica Health, healthcare was never abstract. It was personal long before it was professional.
Anthony was born with a rare congenital condition called an annular pancreas. For sixteen years, it went misdiagnosed across three countries: the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States. His childhood was defined by hospital rooms, emergency transports, and life-threatening episodes of dehydration and internal bleeding. Twice, his heart stopped during ambulance rides. His earliest memory is not a playground or classroom — it’s staring at a hospital ceiling.
When Anthony was finally diagnosed at age sixteen, his life-saving surgery at Mayo Clinic was classified as experimental. It worked. And it gave him something more than survival: clarity. He understood, at a visceral level, what happens when access, data, and timely intervention are missing — and what’s possible when care finally reaches the right patient at the right time.
After surgery, Anthony was determined to reclaim the years he lost. He completed high school in just two years, studied entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and did something once unimaginable during his years of illness: he joined the rowing team. That drive — to move forward, to build, to contribute — became a defining throughline in his life.
Anthony’s professional career took him deep into the operational side of healthcare. He co-founded a healthcare finance company serving critical access hospitals and rural health systems across the Midwest. There, he saw firsthand the fragility of rural healthcare infrastructure: understaffed facilities, razor-thin margins, long distances between patients and providers, and systems doing everything possible to deliver care with limited resources.
Later, Anthony became known as a turnaround specialist in health IT, stepping in to rescue failing EHR implementations, restore trust, and bring large-scale technology projects back on track. His work eventually brought him back to Mayo Clinic — this time not as a patient, but as a leader on the multi-billion-dollar Plummer Project, transitioning twenty-six hospitals to a single Epic EHR system. It was a full-circle moment: the institution that once saved his life now trusted him to help transform its future.
Yet even at the highest levels of healthcare technology, Anthony kept seeing the same gap he experienced as a patient years earlier: care was still episodic. Data was still delayed. And for millions of people — especially those living far from major medical centers — distance remained a barrier to timely intervention.
Biometrica Health was founded to close that gap.
Anthony didn’t set out to build just another healthcare platform. He set out to help create a system where clinicians don’t have to guess, where patients aren’t invisible between visits, and where geography no longer determines outcomes. Biometrica’s focus on continuous biometric data, system-neutral integration, and real-time visibility reflects Anthony’s belief that healthcare works best when information flows freely and care teams can act before small issues become emergencies.
Today, Anthony remains deeply grounded in service. He volunteers regularly through his church and serves as a caregiver to his mother — the woman he credits with keeping him alive through the most difficult years of his childhood. That sense of responsibility to family, to community, to those who depend on the system working continues to shape his leadership.
Biometrica Health exists because one patient experienced the cost of delayed care — and decided to build something better.
For Anthony Dann, this isn’t just a company. It’s a commitment: to ensure that no matter where a patient lives, the data that could save their life isn’t out of reach.
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