Army and was deployed to Afghanistan, where he worked as a trauma and flight nurse and was awarded the Bronze Star. Bell also was a founding member and CEO of the healthcare education software startup iCare Academic, which was acquired in 2010 by Wolters Kluwer Health. His second startup, E2 Medical Software, developed an iPhone application named E2 Calc, designed for anesthesia providers to calculate crucial information pertinent to patients undergoing surgery rapidly and accurately.