@anaconnav - Thanks Ana for introducing yourself.
If you have any experience or knowledge of Digital Health success in low- and middle-income countries, please share it with us here. Thanks.
Hi everyone , I'm Biki sarmah , a mechanical engineer from oxylab . As we know Rising healthcare costs put economic pressure on families and businesses in addition to constraining access to healthcare to those that can afford the increased cost.In developing countries , the high price of medical imaging systems such as MRI ,CT and PET imaging limits access to medical imaging because of both price and physical access since the sparse geographical distribution of medical imaging systems also imposes a travel barrier for those that would benefit from them.Almost 122 Indians per 10,000 die due to poor quality of care and less access to medical imaging facility each year but we can reduce those death.we try to designed a new generation of portable medical device .which may be capable of producing accurate 3-D image with less harmful effect. The device is need to be cost effective and user friendly with less technical complication so a non-specialists like nurse ,junior doctor ,general practitioners and our trained person diagnose with the same accuracy as a radiologist as a specialist . looking forward to contributing to this great global health initiative.
@biki - Welcome Biki! We're excited to have you join our online community of experts.
Congratulations on designing portable medical device. This would tremendously improve access to healthcare.
Just a quick question, is this device already in use? if yes; it would be nice to hear some success stories and any challenges faced in implementing it here.
In case you have come across any interesting reports, articles or documentaries etc. that throws light on how healthcare works in low and middle-income countries or how technology is used to overcome healthcare barriers, please share it with us here.
Many thanks.
Hi everyone! My name is Parisa Glass. I lead the entrepreneurship and innovation program at The George Institute for Global Health. We are a leading medical research institute in Australia with major office in India, China and UK.
We partner with governments, health facilities, communities and industry to address the largest health challenges and causes of death globally. We scale our impact by partnering with researchers, entrepreneurs and organisations to develop innovative affordable health solutions for low-middle-income countries or any resource poor settings. You can learn more about us on www.georgeinstitute.org and www.george-health.com
Couple of example of our work:
- SMARThealth - a decision support tool www.georgeinstitute.org/projects/systematic-medical-appraisal-referral-and-treatment-smart-health
- World's first affordable dialysis system www.ellenmedical.com
Thank you @Shashi for the invitation. I am Hongsoo KIM, a professor at Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul, South Korea. https://health.snu.ac.kr/node/232 Nice to be part of the XPRIZE community. I look forward to working with you.
Hi All, I am David Patterson Silver Wolf...a professor at Washington University in St Louis. My work focuses on incorporating performance-based practices to behavioral health and addiction services, specifically in underserved communities. While access to healthcare is vital...what's equally important are the results (i.e. health & wellness performance outcomes) of those services. We have developed and are implementing performance-based tech tools in high-need and historically underserved systems of care. Looking forward to learning more about all of you and this important effort.
@Hongsoo, @dpatterson22 - Welcome Hongsoo and David! We're excited to have you both join our online community of experts. Thank you for introducing yourself. We are extremely happy to have people from diverse background join us.
In case you have come across any interesting reports, articles or documentaries etc. that throws light on how healthcare works in low and middle-income countries or how technology is used to overcome healthcare barriers, please share it with us here.
If you know anybody else who may be interested in this, then please feel free to forward the invitation I sent you or give them the link to the community. We’re interested in getting diverse points-of-view from different countries and different disciplines. The idea is that if we put together a diverse group of experts, we avoid group think and we come up with bold and innovative ideas.
Many thanks.
Hello everyone! I am Ewunate Assaye
I'm working on my MSc. thesis in biomedical instrumentation, I was working as an Assistant lecturer in biomedical engineering department @ University of Gondar from October 2017 to September 2019 , I was working as Medical equipment service engineer @ Haremaya University specialized teaching hospital from September 2015 to October 2017.
We would love to hear your thoughts on these latest discussion topics.
In case you have come across any interesting reports, articles or documentaries etc. that throws light on how healthcare works in low and middle-income countries or how technology is used to overcome healthcare barriers, please share it with us here.
Hi all,
I am Nitesh from India. Following my brief profile:
Nitesh K. Jangir is an Electronics Engineer with focus on Embedded System Design, with an experience that includes stints at defence, industrial automation, medical devices etc. Nitesh is a co-founder of Coeo Labs, a medical device company with a vision to prevent preventable deaths in the field of emergency and critical care.
He was also a part of Stanford India Biodesign Program where he developed and commercialized a device to safely tap pleural fluid in patients with pleural effusion. This technology (Thorashield) was licensed out to a medical device manufacturing company. Nitesh is an active inventor and has filed and granted six patents in – field of medical devices and artificial intelligence.
Nitesh is a part of COVID 19 task force of WEF, Technology Pioneer at WEF, Commonwealth Innovation Award Winner, Forbes 30 Under 30 (India and Asia), Acumen India Fellow, a Leaders in Innovation Fellow-Royal Academy of Engineers UK and an INK Fellow.
@Nitesh - Thanks Nitesh for the introduction. You have an awesome background and experience in medical field. We look forward to your contribution in the community.
Hello. I'm working at Asan Medical Center, one of leading hospital in South Korea. Recently, I have interests in deep learning, 3D printing, robotics in medicine. In my google scholar, you can check the my recent works (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e93LeuwAAAAJ&hl=ko).
Greetings to everyone. I am a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford. Relevant to this endeavor, I was a first responder to the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal, and have extensive EMS (out-of-hospital care) experience as both a provider and an administrator. I am deeply involved in wilderness medicine, disaster response, and technology in medicine. One of my current projects is with the (U.S.) National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health to prepare communities and individuals to anticipate, encounter, respond to, and recover from climate change-related disaster. I can help the group understand prehospital care and its role in reaching people at the front line of a medical situation. Thank you.
@paulauerbach - Thanks Dr. Paul for the introduction.
You experience very well aligns with this project. I am curious to know if you have any thoughts on the best countries to pilot test a digital health solution. If so, please share it here
@Shashi We in the DeepDrug team, apart from running a "Skunkworks" for finding (and repurposing) therapeutics for COVID 19 (10 drugs are in-vitro and in-vivo and ready for IND exemption for human trials), are also working on digital health in Africa and Asia. In particular, we are interested in cheap drug distribution (drones) and diagnostics (Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy + AI). If you are interested, we can have a call.
@supratik12 - Thanks Dr. Supratik for sharing the link on personal health navigator. We'll go through it. We are glad to know that you are working on Digital Health in Asia and Africa. I would have a discussion with my team and follow up with you for a call.
Again, thank you for your time and for lending your expertise to this project!
Hi everyone, this is Rigveda Kadam. I lead the digital health work at Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics. My background is in public health program management, with a focus on increasing access to health services in low and middle income countries
@RKadam - Thanks Rigveda for the introduction.
You experience very well aligns with this project. I am curious to know if you have any thoughts on the best countries to pilot test a digital health solution. If so, please share it here
Hello!
My name is Kristen Wenz and I am a global expert on identity and development with a background in health. I have 15 years of experience working at the country, regional and global levels. I have served as an advisor to
governments, the United Nations, the World Bank, X-PRIZE, as well as Fortune 100 companies and small start-ups. I recently gave a TED talk at the We the Future Event during the United Nations General Assembly called “What if a single human right could change the world?” which summarizes how identity (including civil registration and vital statistics) is one of the greatest sources of untapped potential to accelerate development progress. I have a Master’s degree from Columbia University and am a proud native from the State of Vermont.
@Kwenz - Welcome Kristen! We're excited to have you join our online community of experts.
Thank you for the introduction. You have an awesome background.
At present we are discussing phases of healthcare product development. Curious to know if you have any thoughts on it. We would love to hear your thoughts on this latest discussion topic.
Hello Shashi & Team,
I'm excited to be part of this group!
I head Product Development (Mobile Apps/platform development, AI/ML and UI/UX) at Saathealth, based in India. We have launched a few mobile interventions in the last 2.5 years including our App Saathealth for Hindi-speaking LMIG families in Indian cities and semi-urban towns with over 100k users. We've published our impact report on our site, and also our research in using UX to improve health outcomes with nudges and social pats/incentives is going to be published in Frontiers in Science pretty soon this year.
I'd like to contribute in the areas of :
- using mobile Apps and human centered design to provide LMIG users with the right content based on demographics, interests
- preliminary and deeper ideation for the use of personalised content dissemination to improve knowledge levels in LMIG Users
- user of algorithms to classify users into cohorts as well as the use of ML for recommending the right content that nudges users towards better health-seeking behaviours
- linking content & incentives with supply-side offers to acceelerate usage & sustained engagement over a longer period of time
- enabling field workers / health workers / field staff to onboard people (using a partner App) -> hence implementing this conceptually, but also tracking the transactional level data for better analytics about their performance.
Let me know how and where I can engage. Happy to be on board!
@srinisatyan - Welcome Shrini! We're excited to have you join our online community of experts.
Thank you for the introduction. You experience very well aligns with this project.
As per the latest version of the competition the teams would have to design a solution that aggregates and harmonizes health data to address the primary care needs of a country. And those same teams are also asked to leverage data science techniques to enable health leadership to secondarily derive value from the harmonized data.
We have several active discussions in the prize design sections, where I feel you could contribute. Specially the use case of AI / ML in healthcare, Healthcare Data Integration and Integration process of Digital health products. We would love your thoughts on these discussions and more.
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If you have any experience or knowledge of Digital Health success in low- and middle-income countries, please share it with us here. Thanks.
Congratulations on designing portable medical device. This would tremendously improve access to healthcare.
Just a quick question, is this device already in use? if yes; it would be nice to hear some success stories and any challenges faced in implementing it here.
At present we are discussing the key issues of frontline health systems:
• How A.I. can be used to increase preventative care in low- and middle-income countries?
• Major constraints in regard to frontline health systems in LMICs and how technology can be leveraged to overcome these constraints
We would love to hear your thoughts on these latest discussion topics.
In case you have come across any interesting reports, articles or documentaries etc. that throws light on how healthcare works in low and middle-income countries or how technology is used to overcome healthcare barriers, please share it with us here.
Many thanks.
We partner with governments, health facilities, communities and industry to address the largest health challenges and causes of death globally. We scale our impact by partnering with researchers, entrepreneurs and organisations to develop innovative affordable health solutions for low-middle-income countries or any resource poor settings. You can learn more about us on www.georgeinstitute.org and www.george-health.com
Couple of example of our work:
- SMARThealth - a decision support tool www.georgeinstitute.org/projects/systematic-medical-appraisal-referral-and-treatment-smart-health
- World's first affordable dialysis system www.ellenmedical.com
At present we are discussing key issues of frontline health systems.
We would love to hear your thoughts on any of these discussion topics.
In case you have come across any interesting reports, articles or documentaries etc. that throws light on how healthcare works in low and middle-income countries or how technology is used to overcome healthcare barriers, please share it with us here.
If you know anybody else who may be interested in this, then please feel free to forward the invitation I sent you or give them the link to the community. We’re interested in getting diverse points-of-view from different countries and different disciplines. The idea is that if we put together a diverse group of experts, we avoid group think and we come up with bold and innovative ideas.
Many thanks.
I'm working on my MSc. thesis in biomedical instrumentation, I was working as an Assistant lecturer in biomedical engineering department @ University of Gondar from October 2017 to September 2019 , I was working as Medical equipment service engineer @ Haremaya University specialized teaching hospital from September 2015 to October 2017.
At present we are discussing prize ideas for frontline health challenge:
- What frameworks and criterion can be used for evaluation and success of a digital health program in a low resource environment?
- Where should we test ehealth solution?
We would love to hear your thoughts on these latest discussion topics.In case you have come across any interesting reports, articles or documentaries etc. that throws light on how healthcare works in low and middle-income countries or how technology is used to overcome healthcare barriers, please share it with us here.
I am Nitesh from India. Following my brief profile:
Nitesh K. Jangir is an Electronics Engineer with focus on Embedded System Design, with an experience that includes stints at defence, industrial automation, medical devices etc. Nitesh is a co-founder of Coeo Labs, a medical device company with a vision to prevent preventable deaths in the field of emergency and critical care.
He was also a part of Stanford India Biodesign Program where he developed and commercialized a device to safely tap pleural fluid in patients with pleural effusion. This technology (Thorashield) was licensed out to a medical device manufacturing company. Nitesh is an active inventor and has filed and granted six patents in – field of medical devices and artificial intelligence.
Nitesh is a part of COVID 19 task force of WEF, Technology Pioneer at WEF, Commonwealth Innovation Award Winner, Forbes 30 Under 30 (India and Asia), Acumen India Fellow, a Leaders in Innovation Fellow-Royal Academy of Engineers UK and an INK Fellow.
Thanks for introduction. You have an amazing experience and are keen to hear your thoughts on these latest discussion topics:
What frameworks and criterion can be used for evaluation and success of a digital health program in a low resource environment?
Which country would be Ideal to a test ehealth solution?
You experience very well aligns with this project. I am curious to know if you have any thoughts on the best countries to pilot test a digital health solution. If so, please share it here
Thank you for the introduction. Congratulations on being semifinalist of the AI XPRIZE. All the best for the finals.
At present in frontline health challenge design, we are discussing prize ideas:
- Which are the potential countries where we could test an eHealth systems?
- What frameworks and criterion can be used for evaluation and success of a digital health program in a low resource environment?
Curious to know if you have any thoughts on these latest discussion topics.https://www.dropbox.com/s/6p5pwcghmc4wbyy/Personal Health Navigator - Computer April 2019.pdf?dl=0
Again, thank you for your time and for lending your expertise to this project!
You experience very well aligns with this project. I am curious to know if you have any thoughts on the best countries to pilot test a digital health solution. If so, please share it here
My name is Kristen Wenz and I am a global expert on identity and development with a background in health. I have 15 years of experience working at the country, regional and global levels. I have served as an advisor to
governments, the United Nations, the World Bank, X-PRIZE, as well as Fortune 100 companies and small start-ups. I recently gave a TED talk at the We the Future Event during the United Nations General Assembly called “What if a single human right could change the world?” which summarizes how identity (including civil registration and vital statistics) is one of the greatest sources of untapped potential to accelerate development progress. I have a Master’s degree from Columbia University and am a proud native from the State of Vermont.
Thank you for the introduction. You have an awesome background.
At present we are discussing phases of healthcare product development. Curious to know if you have any thoughts on it. We would love to hear your thoughts on this latest discussion topic.
I'm excited to be part of this group!
I head Product Development (Mobile Apps/platform development, AI/ML and UI/UX) at Saathealth, based in India. We have launched a few mobile interventions in the last 2.5 years including our App Saathealth for Hindi-speaking LMIG families in Indian cities and semi-urban towns with over 100k users. We've published our impact report on our site, and also our research in using UX to improve health outcomes with nudges and social pats/incentives is going to be published in Frontiers in Science pretty soon this year.
I'd like to contribute in the areas of :
- using mobile Apps and human centered design to provide LMIG users with the right content based on demographics, interests
- preliminary and deeper ideation for the use of personalised content dissemination to improve knowledge levels in LMIG Users
- user of algorithms to classify users into cohorts as well as the use of ML for recommending the right content that nudges users towards better health-seeking behaviours
- linking content & incentives with supply-side offers to acceelerate usage & sustained engagement over a longer period of time
- enabling field workers / health workers / field staff to onboard people (using a partner App) -> hence implementing this conceptually, but also tracking the transactional level data for better analytics about their performance.
Let me know how and where I can engage. Happy to be on board!
Thank you for the introduction. You experience very well aligns with this project.
As per the latest version of the competition the teams would have to design a solution that aggregates and harmonizes health data to address the primary care needs of a country. And those same teams are also asked to leverage data science techniques to enable health leadership to secondarily derive value from the harmonized data.
We have several active discussions in the prize design sections, where I feel you could contribute. Specially the use case of AI / ML in healthcare, Healthcare Data Integration and Integration process of Digital health products. We would love your thoughts on these discussions and more.
We are also locking the list of potential partners for this competition - If you have any recommendations, please share them in the next few days. Thanks.