AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
Radical innovation, Confident diagnosis, Life saving
COUNTRY
Denmark
DESIGNED BY
Andrew Nagel, DEVELOPA
WEBSITE
http://www.acarix.com
Acarix CADScor System
Acarix CADScor System offers a new & non-invasive diagnostic exclusion of Coronary Artery Disease.
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) has the largest death rate globally, killing 20% of all people. It affects 50% of men and 33% of women. Existing diagnostic methods involve vague lifestyle assessments and costly cardiologist investigations.
The CADScor System revolutionises this medical field by uniting the potential of industrial design, interaction design, technology design, business model design & procedural service design, resulting in a cardiac evaluation device system for use by doctors worldwide.
Acoustics and mathematical algorithms measure turbulence as blood flows over blockages in the arteries, giving fast & accurate readings. This vastly reduces the need for invasive tests, creating huge benefits for both patients & the healthcare system.
Designed for optimal usability involving doctors & cardiologists in co-creation processes. Refined through iterative processes of prototyping & user testing. Acarix CADScor System pioneers a new era in cardiac screening enabled by design.