Health Innovation: Medical Instrument: Re-design of the conventional needle

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Christopher Holden, a student of Northumbria University, UK, studying Design for industry, has re-designed the conventional needle. His design, called ‘MediDome’, is intended to eliminate needle stick injuries, cross contamination of blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis and the fear of needles. The design of MediDome ensures that veins would not be ruptured during intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. A soft flexible plastic is used in manufacturing MediDome, pre-filled with a measured drug dose that avoids the need for priming

Profile: Telemedicine: India: Telemedicine at Amrita (AIMS)

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“Where there is love, distance doesn’t matter.” —Amma
In January 2003, the Amrita Telemedicine facility was inaugurated from Kavaratti on the Lakshadweep Islands located 220 nautical miles off the coast of Kerala. AIMS is the first institution in Kerala to begin using telemedicine to treat patients in remote places in India, such as the Lakshadweep Islands, Port Blair on the Andaman Islands and Leh, Ladakh, thereby vastly improving the quality of healthcare for the local populations.

Telemedicine is a method by which specialist doctors can examine, investigate, monitor and treat patients in remote areas through satellite video conferencing. AIMS’ telemedcine programme is made possible through its link with an ISRO [Indian Satellite Research Organisation] satellite. Telemedicine is used to transmit patients’ medical images, records, output from medical devices and live two-way audio and video. With the help of these, specialist doctors can advise, online, the doctors or paramedics at the patient’s end on medical care, or even guide the doctor during a surgery.

India: Health: Innovative Ideas: Loughborough University takes mobile phone health monitoring to India

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Loughborough University engineers have forged a partnership with experts in India to develop their unique mobile phone health monitoring system.

The device, which was first unveiled in 2005, uses a mobile phone to transmit a person’s vital signs, including the complex electrocardiogram (ECG) heart signal, to a hospital or clinic anywhere in the world.

Created by Professor Bryan Woodward and Dr Fadlee Rasid from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the system enables a doctor to observe remotely up to four different medical signals from a freely moving patient. Signals that can be transmitted include the ECG, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and blood glucose level.

News: Research :India: Texas Instruments (TI) and IIT Kharagpur to collaborate on breakthrough medical technology research

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Research projects to lay the foundation for a new generation of cancer diagnostics systems and health care monitoring

KOLKATA, India (April 1, 2008) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has signed a collaborative agreement with the School of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, to develop semiconductor technologies that will help improve the quality, comfort and accessibility of health care.

This is the first time that TI has partnered with any IIT in India on research projects devoted to medical electronics innovation. The announcement was made here today by Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, managing director, Texas Instruments India, and Professor Ajoy Kumar Ray, head – SMST, IIT Kharagpur.

TI works with medical device customers across the globe to make quality health care more accessible to more people. In September 2007, the company announced that it would invest a total of $15 million to fund medical technology research at selected universities worldwide with a focus on quality, accessibility and affordability. TI’s goal in supporting this research is to help develop new semiconductor technologies for personal medical devices, implantables, medical imaging, wireless healthcare systems and bio-sensor technology. The TI-IIT Kharagpur research collaboration is a part of this effort.

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Hitech Diagnostic centre, Chennai, India

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Hitech Diagnostic Centre was started in the year 1986, by Dr. SP. Ganesan MBBS, DCP and Mrs. Malini Parasuraman M.Sc.,(Biochemistry) with the objective of providing quality and reliable laboratory service at an affordable cost.

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Rural healthcare: India: CARE to leverage ITC’s e-Choupals

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The successful e-Choupal model of ITC has provided impetus to an experiment in healthcare — a model to provide quality medical facilities to the country’s rural heartland.

The Hyderabad-based CARE Group of Hospitals has launched a pilot project in Maharashtra in collaboration with ITC to test this model. The sops, offered in the recent Budget for setting up hospitals in tier II and III cities, such as a five-year tax holiday and insurance schemes are expected to prove beneficial.

The first pilot has been launched in Nagpur, where a 100-bed multi-speciality hospital has been established. This hub is electronically linked to three smaller medical centres in Yavatmal, Wardha and Amaravati. Nearly, 400 villages with a million population are brought into the network. Basically, CARE Hospitals is integrating its primary healthcare delivery model with the e-choupal network.

Typically, one e-Choupal caters to three-four villages. A choupalSagar comprises 40 such e-Choupals.CARE Hospitals has also roped in corporates to develop ’smart devices’ to capture basic health information in electronic format, while leveraging the additional bandwidth available with the e-Choupals, according to Dr N. Krishna Reddy, Managing Director of the Group.

Impact of telemedicine must be defined in developing countries

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The editorial by Edworthy shows the dangers of external commentary on what is most useful for developing countries.1 How can we measure the comparative impact of teleconsultation in Uzbekistan or Cambodia with teleconsultation in snowbound northern Canada, telemetry in Norway supporting elderly people at home, or teleradiology avoiding long painful journeys in remote parts of the British Isles? What values do we use? economic, social, quality adjusted life years, consumer feedback, political position, or provider satisfaction?

More importantly, how do we measure the impact of telemedicine on the health systems of developing countries? Will strengthening secondary care for a few disadvantage basic primary care or environmental health for the many? Will investment in the required rural telecommunications be at the expense of providing drinkable water? Will developing countries too be seduced by the expensive impact of technology led tertiary care for the few, while ignoring the endemic impact of modified health related behaviour? Will opportunistic global traders exploit the vulnerable?