Abstract
Smartphones have become near ubiquitous on the global stage placing the power of both computational analytics and communication into the hands of users in both high and low-resource regions alike. The potential to leverage these devices to address inequities in healthcare are enormous. Our development team theorizes that we can create a medical device blending a traditional pediatric phototherapy irradiance meter for the treatment of neonatal jaundice with a mobile smartphone to create a reasonably priced irradiance meter with improved performance specifically for low-resource regions. The result of our work is a minimum viable prototype based on an Android operating system tethered wirelessly to a remote sensor that incorporates a clinical training feature. Based on laboratory tests simulating a clinical environment and field testing in Northern Nigeria, the results were equivalent to standard phototherapy meters with additional expected benefits of cost, mobility, access and clinical training.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020 |
Publisher | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780791883549 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2020 |
Event | 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020 - Minneapolis, United States Duration: Apr 6 2020 → Apr 9 2020 |
Publication series
Name | Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020 |
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Conference
Conference | 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Minneapolis |
Period | 4/6/20 → 4/9/20 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The team would like to thank the following participating institutions: Thrasher Research Fund, who provided partial project funding; University of Minnesota, Department of Pediatrics; HHRI (Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute), Department of Pediatrics; DISHER Engineering (Zeeland, Michigan); Arbor Grace (Detroit, Michigan); Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria); Beltline Center (Detroit, Michigan) and Internet Mobility Cellular (Plano, Texas).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 ASME
Keywords
- 10/90 Gap
- 3D Printing
- Agile
- Bandwidth
- Bluetooth
- Dongle
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Irradiance
- Jaundice
- Meter
- Minimum Viable Prototype
- Neonate
- Open Source
- Pediatrics
- Phototherapy
- Photovoltaic
- Sensor
- Smartphone
- Wireless