Point-of-care medical diagnostic using smartphone.


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Creator/Artist: Omkar R. Jambovane

Category: Product Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2013-2015

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Presentation pdf

Supervisor: Prof. N. Sadhu


Detailed Description

Remote health monitoring and disease detection in rural India are hampered by a lack of accurate, convenient, and affordable diagnostic tests. As per my field study, I observed that many of the basic tests administered in well-equipped clinical laboratories are inappropriate for the setting encountered at the point of care, where poor or even low-income patients may be best served. To address this problem, I have designed a smart scope that is useful for conducting rapid basic tests at the point of care by a single patient or a person who can conduct these tests door-to-door and carry the sample to the clinics in rural India. This project is a design for the initial implementation of diagnostics with a smartphone application that supports health workers in rural India.