The Journal of mHealth Vol 2 Issue 2 (Apr 2015) | Page 14

Industry News

12 US Start-ups
Influencing the Future
of Digital Health
From patient data management and 3D prosthetics to diagnostic mobile apps and personalised cancer treatment, the landscape of the healthcare industry is undergoing incredible
change. This infographic visualisation created by Northeastern University illustrates 12
companies that are helping to shape the future of digital health.

Wearable Sensor to
Allow Safer Monitoring
of Ebola Patients
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have unveiled a new biomedical suit and the Multi-Sense Memory wearable
sensor: Two innovations that point to a new
way of tackling the world’s poverty, health and
disaster response issues facing the agency.
The innovations came about as the result of
a competition call that represents a new process of sourcing technology for the agency.
“Usually we issue an RFA or RFP and we get
the usual suspects for proposal. This is a new
approach to open it to more people through
something called a ‘Grand Challenge,’” said
Ann Mei Chang, the executive director of
the U.S. Global Development Lab.
USAID, which is tasked with ending extreme
poverty and often acts as an early responder
at disasters like the 2010 earthquake in Haiti,
Japan’s 2011 tsunami and the recent Ebola
outbreak, received over 1,500 suit submissions as a result of the competition call.
The winner is a suit developed by Johns
Hopkin