Two firms awarded seed grants to develop medical devices for children
From: EurekaAlert! - 10/09/2017

Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium, based at CHOP, to fund
speech generating platform and brain injury diagnostic tool

The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) has announced its
latest round of seed grants to companies developing medical devices for
children. The Consortium chose two companies from eight finalists in a
competition to receive seed grants of $50,000 each.

The devices are a speech generating system that allows hospitalized children
who cannot speak to communicate to clinicians, and a handheld scanner to
detect intracranial bleeding in children, without using radiology.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/chop-tfa100617.php

Links:
Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium
https://ppdc.research.chop.edu

Voxello noddle (with video 1:50)
https://www.voxello.com

InfraScan Infrascanner
https://infrascanner.com

Speech Vendor Gets Grant to Aid Children
http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/News/Speech-Technology-Digest/Speech-Vendor-Gets-Grant-to-Aid-Children-120982.aspx