With the advent of medical tourism, the proliferation of routine tests, improved healthcare and a booming population of people who are able to seek medical care, there is a proliferation of data available to healthcare professionals. Furthermore, with the increase in outsourcing and lack of specialists, the ability for physicians to do remote patient consultations is rapidly becoming a critical necessity.
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Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions. According to the International Diabetes Federation's latest figures, approximately 194 million adults have diabetes worldwide, and this number is expected to reach 333 million by the year 2025. In India alone approximately 317 million people have diabetes and this number is expected to reach at least 794 million by 2030. This challenge is to focus on a specific aspect of diabetes and design a new system, device or method that improves the quality of life for patients who suffer from this disease.
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There has been a price to pay for India's economic boom in the past decade. The proliferation of a sedentary lifestyle, along with the increased capital and a larger middle class means that diseases like heart failure are on the rise. In particular, it is conservatively estimated that sudden cardiac death was responsible for the deaths of more than 2 Million Indians and that number is expected to grow rapidly in the next decade.
In critical care units of many hospitals and emergency rooms, electrodes continuously monitor and record the patient's pulse, EKG and blood oxygen levels. With the current computing power that is available, a portable, miniature, personal monitor could be used to continuously monitor the status of heart failure patients - or people at risk of sudden cardiac death - and generate a warning to their family members and physician.
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Severe Renal Disease affects over 800 million people worldwide and over 250 million people in India. It is estimated that 100,000 patients develop End Stage Renal Disease(Kidney failure) every year in India but 90 per cent of them never see a nephrologist. One of the major reasons for the high percentage of deaths related to kidney failure is the cost involved in the treatment of the disease. So there arises a need to develop a cost effective solution.
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