# Tom Hartle

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**Tom Hartle** is the founder of CoherentRx, a healthcare technology company that produces Patient Education Genius and other healthcare communication applications.

In 1995, Hartle founded Hour Media, which publishes *[Hour Detroit](/source/Hour_Detroit)* - a Detroit lifestyle magazine and website, with business partners John Balardo and Stefan Wanczyk. *Crain's Detroit Business* named Hartle as one of the magazine's *40 under 40* in 1998.[1]

In 2000, he sold out of the company and launched Hartle Media with then partner Heather Hartle. Hartle Media launched [*7x7*](/source/7x7_(magazine)), a bimonthly San Francisco lifestyle magazine and website, in 2001.[2] In 2004, Hartle Media bought *[California Home + Design](/source/California_Home_%2B_Design)*, a California home and garden magazine and website, with partner, the McEvoy Group.[3]

In 2006, Hartle Media partnered with the McEvoy Group to buy Spin Media, publisher of [*Spin*](/source/Spin_(magazine)), a music magazine and website. Hartle served as president of [*Spin*](/source/Spin_(magazine)) until February 2010.[4] In April 2010, he co-founded Bandwdth Publishing, an app publishing house devoted to the arts and sciences. Bandwdth Publishing creates educational products for app-enabled devices. Titles include: *Bygone Days*, an American history app for the iPad,[5] the Bandwdth Artist Dashboard for the Samsung Smart TV, [KoЯn](/source/Ko%D0%AFn) and *Uproar* Tour apps for the iPhone, a [KoЯn](/source/Ko%D0%AFn) SMS program, and a *[Patti Smith: Dream of Life](/source/Patti_Smith%3A_Dream_of_Life)* app for the iPad, a virtual art gallery complement to the documentary of the same name.

Hartle is an alumnus of [Boston University](/source/Boston_University) and [Seaholm High School](/source/Seaholm_High_School) in Birmingham, Michigan.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Benes, Ross (October 3, 2013). ["Hour Media founder Tom Hartle back in Michigan, ready to launch health care app company"](http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20131003/NEWS/131009948/hour-media-founder-tom-hartle-back-in-michigan-ready-to-launch). [Crain's Detroit Business](/source/Crain's_Detroit_Business). Retrieved April 19, 2017. {{[cite journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal)}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Engardio, Joel P. (March 14, 2001). ["Magazine Dreams: Will San Francisco finally get the city magazine it deserves?"](http://www.sfweekly.com/content/printVersion/311504/). *[SF Weekly](/source/SF_Weekly)*. Retrieved August 17, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["DeSilva+Phillips Investment Bank - Deals"](http://www.mediabankers.com/DealProfile.aspx?deal=50454). Mediabankers.com. Retrieved 2013-11-02.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Raine, George (June 24, 2011). ["S.F. group buys 20-year-old rock music magazine Spin / Nion McEvoy leads company created for the acquisition"](https://web.archive.org/web/20071113045313/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/01/BUG8VHGCI11.DTL). *The San Francisco Chronicle*. Archived from [the original](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/01/BUG8VHGCI11.DTL) on November 13, 2007.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["South Dakota Magazine: Explores the art, history, events, environment, people and places of South Dakota"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110809161754/http://southdakotamagazine.com/editors_notebook.php?p=3666). Archived from [the original](http://www.southdakotamagazine.com/editors_notebook.php?p=3666) on 2011-08-09. Retrieved 2011-04-22.

## External links

- [Patient Education Genius](https://www.patienteducationgenius.com)

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