Interview with Sailesh Chutani, CEO, Mobisante

My first exposure to Mobisante and their disruptive diagnostic ultrasound system was the mHealth Summit in November of 2010. At that time, the consumerization of medical devices had been gaining traction, mostly in the physician office market. Consumerization offers medical device manufacturers advantages in lower design costs, shorter time-to-market, lower product costs, increased usability and lower training costs. I recently got Sailesh Chutani, co-founder and CEO of Mobisante, on the phone and we discussed their product strategy — a software based diagnostic ultrasound that runs on a variety of consumer electronics platforms. Your product is clearly a diagnostic ultrasound medical device, but one can’t help but notice the rather unique design and choice of components. What were the factors driving the eventual design and appearance of your diagnostic ultrasound? For us, in terms of where we started, our goal was to make ultrasound imaging universally accessible; to democratize it. Currently, there are three very significant barriers to broader adoption of ultrasound imaging:  cost, complexity and the difficulty of integration with workflows. Traditional ultrasounds are the way they are because historically the only way to get the high performance and image quality you need was to do custom hardware, custom everything. This is by necessity very expensive. Then, in 2007, Qualcomm came up with Snapdragon chip sets. Now, for the first time, you had enough comput...
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