Joel Selanikio, the 45 year old COO and Co-Founder of Washington DC based DataDyne has been selected as the “Most Influential Innovation” amongst 7 technology innovators for his “EpiSurveyor disease outbeak software” by the MIT Professor of Materials Science who overseas the Lemelson-MIT Program (the largest cash prize for US innovation in the US).
“Joel Selanikio’s EpiSurveyor software helps health care workers in the developing world use mobile phones to track disease outbreaks. Health care workers can respond more quickly with up-to-date information. The World Health Organization uses EpiSurveyor in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. “The difference between 10 minutes and 10 days is probably thousands of kids exposed to polio and hundreds paralyzed or dead,” he says. Selanikio began his career as a software programmer, but switched to medical school and then working for the Center for Disease Control. He started DataDyne in 2003.”
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