Health Diagnostics

ShoeBox - Sustainable hearing healthcare: IPAD point of care diagnostic audiometry

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death around the world. In India alone, there are nearly 62 million diabetic patients, a number that is expected to rise to 80 million by 2030. There is a large unmet need to provide an affordable, simple and intelligent blood glucose monitoring solution to patients and healthcare workers, and to couple these diagnostics with clinical decision support tools that can allow the transmission of data to specialists, along with public health agencies.

Augmented Infant Resuscitator

Business Sustainability for Mobile Health: Audio-based Interfacing to Clinical Sensors

Private and public investors are injecting $2 million into a Canadian mobile health innovation that offers hope of preventing thousands of deaths and improving the health of expectant mothers, newborns and children throughout the developing world.

One of the key challenges for Bangladeshis in remote locations is the frequent monitoring of wells. (Some rural wells still have not been tested.) We are developing a cheap and portable lab-on-a-chip technique that will allow frequent tests of wells.

lastic casings and in low-cost diagnostic devices offer many advantages during the fabrication and manufacturing of the device, but are a big challenge to bio-hazard waste management after the devices are used. We address these challenges by developing a cheap all biodegradable substitute (and one that can be incinerated) for plastic.

In 2008 the WHO estimated that 664 million people have hearing impairment and that 80% of them live in low and middle income countries. Only 20% of the world's population has access to hearing testing and only 1 in 40 will be fitted with a hearing aid. In all of Africa there are only 160 audiologists for over 1 billion people. Demand for care vastly exceeds supply of equipment and professionals. Our idea is to develop a mobile point of care diagnostic tool that is so simple a child can test their own hearing. The test is fun, accurate and inexpensive.

In resource-poor settings, hearing impairment goes undiagnosed till the child is about 3 years. By then, it is too late for the care cycle to be effective and leads to speech loss & impaired communication. Sohum provides early screening that leads to timely treatment and rehabilitation, as well as savings in healthcare expenses to the system.