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Click Medix uses mobile diagnostic technology to save lives in Haiti

12/9/2013

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Click Medix mobile diagnostics in use (http://clickmedix.com/)
This summary provided by SEAD Student Assistant Lizzy Knippler, Duke '16.

When disaster struck Haiti in 2010, Dr. Sandeep Kohli says the Internet was not necessary to provide medical care following the earthquake. According to Dr. Kohli, who works in internal medicine and critical care, the most advanced piece of technology at the Port Au Prince hospital where he worked was a self-made EKG machine constructed of old machine parts. But three years later, things have changed. The hospital now uses an iPhone-powered iEKG, a product created by Dr. Kohli's medical device startup, Triomi Medical innovations. Dr. Kohli now sees the Internet as a way to save lives in Haiti.

Dr. Kohli has teamed up with Tingh Shih, the founder and CEO of Click Medix. Click Medix, part of the 2013 SEAD Innovator Cohort, is a mobile diagnostic company.  The partnership "integrate[s] the EKG machine with Click Medix diagnostic equipment to provide over-the-phone consultations to residents of remote villages with no nearby health clinics.

Click Medix technology is used to help community technicians in India, Ghana, and 11 other countries reach diagnoses for a variety of medical issues, including cancer, diabetes, and eye examinations. Dr. Kohli hopes to introduce a prototype of the new Click Medix cardiology program in the Port Au Prince hospital when it is ready in February. The diagnostic programs have "transformed 16-year-old dropouts in India into medical professionals able to work in the nation's top hospitals," and Dr. Kohli is optimistic that similar breakthroughs can occur in Haiti.

Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article here!

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5/20/2014 04:21:04 pm

Two innovative devices that use modified mobile phone technology to diagnose disease now have funds for more research and field tests in developing countries.

The 'CelloPhone' and the 'CellScope' — diagnostic imaging tools made from everyday camera phones — were winners of the Vodafone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Project prize, announced last week (8 April).

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