Noncommunicable Diseases

The burden of injury has reached epidemic proportions, especially in low-income countries. Annually, injury costs more than five million lives. The social and economic burden of injury is profound and disproportionately affects young people, the most productive demographic of the population. The introduction of an innovative electronic trauma registry allows for rapid and real-time data collection and analysis, which is essential in resource-limited settings. This will set the foundation for surveillance, education and implementation of effective policies to reduce the burden of injury.

The electronic Trauma Health Record (eTHR) is an application designed for tablet devices. Coupled with powerful educational media and validated clinical practice guidelines, eTHR allows for injury surveillance while simultaneously improving outcomes.

This project provides comprehensive diagnostic solution for most of the blindness causing eye disease in low- and middle-income countries through "EYELIKE" Platform that may be utilized by lower level health workers. The Platform is composed with three major parts: i) a portable and easy-to-use fundus camera with affordable price to be connected to smartphones, ii) Smartphone Application that corrects patient data while demonstrating the diagnostic result and the disease map, and iii) pattern recognition algorithm diagnosing various eye diseases from the fundus images.

Making medically-supervised vision care globally accessible and affordable to large populations particularly those who are under-served