Better design at every heartbeat
Millions of newborns could be saved each year around the world if only they were kept warm during the first three days of life. It’s solving these types of apparently straightforward yet intractably complex challenges that drives DtM.
Each healthcare project begins with a simple premise: Empathy can lead to better outcomes. Listening to the needs of their users – often for easy-to-operate and affordable healthcare solutions – DtM has been able to push the limits of rapid prototyping and low-volume manufacturing to deliver products to people desperate for a better quality of life.
The results:
- Pelican, a portable pulse oximeter that allows low-skilled community health works to quickly diagnose newborn pneumonia
- Otter, a simple and easily cleaned newborn conductive warmer to prevent hypothermia
- Firefly, the world’s most effective newborn phototherapy device for low-resource hospitals – used in more than 20 countries by over 35,000 newborns to date
Bringing change to where it’s needed most
From its headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, to clinics all over the world, DtM and its teams need reliable computing power for problem-solving that knows no boundaries. That’s why they use the full range of Lenovo workstations, including the ThinkStation P910 for its unmatched processing speeds and the ThinkPad P40 Yoga for sketching out in the field.
"I want to design for outcomes. I didn't want to make beautiful stuff. I want to make the world a better place." Tim Prestero, DtM founder and CEO
Check out what's in Design That Matter's design labs: ThinkPad P40 Yoga and ThinkStation P910
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