Mobisante Wins FDA Approval for "Ultrasound on a Smartphone" Technology
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The startup, which began R&D work in 2007, will now race over the next several months to establish manufacturing protocols so it can deliver its new ultrasound imaging system in a way that will pass future FDA audits, says CEO Sailesh Chutani.If that can be done, then Mobisante can start to dream much bigger about getting ultrasound into the hands of healthcare workers in remote villages around the world, doing basic scans for internal bleeding, fetal health, and other common tasks.The company was founded by Chutani, a former senior director in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile group, along with David Zar, an ultrasound researcher who previously worked at Washington University in St. Louis.The Mobisante system must have that configuration because it needs a USB port so that ultrasound probes can plug in, and so it can draw enough power to capture those images of what’s going on inside the body.The smartphone’s cellular capability means that Mobisante—unlike other proprietary ultrasound systems—-can capture images taken by an unskilled health worker, who then can e-mail the file to a more trained radiologist at a hospital for a second opinion, Chutani says.
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