Design that Matters

Great design can only have an impact if it is adopted at scale. Although individual DtM products can save hundreds of lives, they see the greatest potential impact in their influence on global health standards. DtM’s vision is that each product they develop will become the standard of care in low-resource settings.

This is the end game for a product like Firefly: providing an overwhelming incentive for multinational medical device manufacturers to follow their lead and imitate their products. Once DtM’s product concept becomes the standard, they’re free to focus their resources on other high-burden global health needs that are poorly served by the market.

DtM sees growing evidence of support for their position that international medical device standards are insufficient and often inappropriate for low-resource settings, specifically in the increasing number of government tenders for double-sided phototherapy devices. DtM partner MTTS has applied the lessons we learned together in Firefly to two new CE Mark certified devices, including a novel newborn resuscitation device (the Dolphin CPAP).