10 of 15 startups building apps for healthcare

Help you sleep!

Here’s how the mobile Zeo Sleep Manager works: 

Sensors in a wireless headband detect patterns of light, deep, and REM sleep. 

Then, a companion iOS or Android app turns those data into graphs and an overall “sleep score.”

Finally, Zeo’s website suggest ways to improve.

See it at work at myzeo.com

In this 15-part series on the thrilling, disruptive potential of "mHealth," I highlight businesses using mobile technology in health care.

Leveraging the wonders of a device that's fast becoming ubiquitous – two in three people worldwide own a cell phone – a new generation of startups is building apps and add-ons that make your handheld work like high-end medical equipment.

Cheaper, sleeker, and a lot more versatile.