AÑO
2017
CATEGORÍA
Cuerpo
OBJETIVOS
Salud y bienestar
PAL. CLAVE
acess to heathcare, technology, digitalization
PAÍS
Cameroon
CRÉDITOS
Arthur Zang
LINK
https://www.facebook.com/cardiopad
The Cardiopad Project
Africa’s first heart monitoring tablet to help diagnose people with heart disease.
A tablet that gives patients with heart problems a medical diagnosis within minutes could dramatically improve healthcare for rural residents far from hospitals.
The Cardio Pad, a touch-screen heart monitoring device, invented by Cameroonian entrepreneur Arthur Zang and recent winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize, records a patient’s heart activity via Bluetooth-connected electrodes. It sends a digitized electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) to a national healthcare center for a cardiologist to evaluate and return a diagnosis to the patient. The whole process takes less than 20 minutes and the doctor and patient never have to interact.