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The 2nd Annual WHCC Affordable Health Innovation Exhibit and Awards Program features innovations from around the globe that are working to provide sustainable health solutions to populations that often lack basic care. While some of the innovations utilize cutting-edge technologies, others provide simple health solutions that improve the quality of drinking water, improve sanitary conditions and build programs and finance models that provide a vastly improved infrastructure for health care. A select number of the presenters will be chosen to receive awards for their efforts in the field.
From a video game that helps youths with cancer fight the disease to a diagnostic tool that fits that power of a lab into a postage stamp-sized piece of paper, the WHCC Affordable Heath Innovation Exhibit demonstrates how health care can be uniquely innovative and affordable.
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"Game On" Against Cancer
Pam Omidyar, Founder and Board Chair, HopeLab
Developed by HopeLab, the video game, "Re-Mission", helps youths and adolescents battling cancer become more compliant with their treatments. Research suggests the game improves awareness and efficacy towards cancer, and an increased likelihood of self-care. (full abstract)
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A Blue Wavelength Light Can Make a Newborns Life Bright
Elizabeth Johansen, Director of Product Development, Design that Matters
Developed by Design that Matters, low-cost phototherapy helps treats jaundice in newborns and prevents neurological disease. (full abstract)
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A Decision-Support Platform for Better Nutrition
Chad Bonner, Co-Founder, Usable Health
Usable Health is a wellness and disease management organization that Improves health, while reducing costs associated with chronic illness, obesity, diabetes and coronary artery disease. (full abstract)
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A New Design in Safe, Affordable and Accessible Female Contraceptive
Maggie Kilbourne-Brook, Program Officer, PATH
Developed by PATH, the SILCS Diaphragm overcomes obstacles that have limited the use of traditional diaphragms and dramatically increases access to a safe and reliable contraceptive. (full abstract)
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A Novel System for Electronically Confirming Adherence to Tuberculosis Therapy
Kit Yee Au-Yeung, PhD, Senior Clinical Scientist, Proteus Biomedical, Inc.
Poor adherence during oral tuberculosis treatment leads to treatment failure and drug-resistance. Directly observed therapy (DOT) confirms therapy, but is resource-intensive and time-consuming. Proteus Biomedical uses an edible sensor and small detector worn on the torso as a novel approach to improve outcomes. (full abstract)
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A Public Health Program Oriented to Highly Mobile Indigenous Populations
Pablo Ortiz-Roses, MD, CCSS, Costa Rica
See how Costa Rica is aiding the health needs of an indigenous population that suffers from extremely poor health conditions, social and cultural exclusion, poor economic resources and lack of access to education (full abstract)
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Affordable Point of Care, HIV-1 Test for Infants
Sujit Jangam, GraduateSstudent, Northwestern University
Infant testing in rural village is expensive and time-consuming. This point -of-care test developed at Northwestern University analyzes the blood with a device that can be powered by a car battery. (full abstract)
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An "ex-CELL-ent" Ultrasound Device
David Zar, Chief Technology Officer, Mobisante
Mobisante develops a smartphone that can serve as an ultrasound scanner. It stores information, sends images to hospitals for diagnosis, and employs a touch-screen interface (full abstract)
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An Aggressive Diabetes Care Model in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley
Joe Seringer, VirtualHealthCheck.com
With wireless blood pressure, patient outreach, weight/glucose information, caring for health is more cost effective and convenient for all patients, and diseases. (full abstract)
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An Innovative Online Platform for Funding and Developing New Technologies
Ewa Wojkowska, Co-Founder, Kopernik
An innovative online platform for emerging technologies, Kopernik reaches developing countries where technology is most needed and allows the public help to decide which products get funded for development. (full abstract)
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Anamatix - Convenient Musculoskeletal Care Without the Expensive Doctor Visits
Jim Killin, CEO, Anamatix
Anamatix patented musculoskeletal care system advances the current health care paradigm, providing consistent, personalized, accessible, clinical care that is offered on a flexible, user-dictated schedule and at a tremendous cost savings to payers, providers, employers and patients with enhanced compliance and patient outcomes. (full abstract)
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CATCH-ing Childhood Obesity Before It Leads to a Life-long Condition
Tiffni Menendez, Research Coordinator II, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
Forty two percent of Texas fourth graders and 36 percent of eight-graders are overweight or obese. Funded by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) is a widely implemented school-based health promotion in the United States that targets major individual and environmental influences of behavioral change. (full abstract)
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CellScope: Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis
Erik Douglas, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
By fitting a microscopy attachment to a conventional cell phone, CellScope is extending telemedicine to developing countries to dramatically improve diagnosis or tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. (full abstract)
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CholerID: Cholera Surveillance of Drinking Water in the Developing World
Stephen Morton, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
The Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University is developing a technology that will facilitate rapid analysis of cholera contamination in water supplies prior to consumption. (full abstract)
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Design a Community Cognitive Health Program
Adriane Berg, CEO, Generation Bold
Discover the step-by-step process by which Rockland County New York's Mental Health Association created a cognitive fitness program for older residents, implemented it, and created a research protocol, training manual for professionals, caregivers and older adults to improve and strengthen memory, driving skills and more, toward an increased abilty to "age in place." Strategies for effective public, private and governmental coalitions for low cost service delivery revealed. (full abstract)
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Diagnostics & Medicines at Villages Doorsteps
A.P. Rango Rao, Chief Advisor, HMRI
See how the Health Management Research Institute (HMRI) is uses mobile health units to dramatically improve care delivery to populations that do not have easy access to medical facilities. (full abstract)
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Empowering Health Care to Transcend Time and Terrain
A.P. Rango Rao, Chief Advisor, HMRI
See how The Health Management Research Institute's (HMRI) telemedicine service develops a point of care, user-friendly, cost-effective, integrated multi-functional device for rural telemedicine applications with emphasis on general physician functionality. (full abstract)
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GE Healthcare's Vscan Potentially Redefines a Patient's Physical Exam
GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare's VscanTM is a pocket-sized visualization tool developed to provide physicians with imaging capabilities at the point-of-care. (full abstract)
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Geared to Reach Out to 80 Million People and Beyond
A.P. Rango Rao, Chief Advisor, HMRI
See how The Health Management Research Institute's (HMRI) helpline is improving health care though a service that handles 1.5 million calls per month. (full abstract)
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Health Care at My Fingertips
Craig Lehmann, Dean/Professor, Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University is combining electronic medical records, hand-held portable ultrasound diagnostics, e-health technology and community health workers to improve access to care in Kenya. (full abstract)
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Heart To Go: Turning a Commodity Smartphone into a Mobile Cardiovascular Diseases Real-Time Monitoring Apparatus
Allen C. Cheng, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Developed at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Heart To Go is using the smartphone at a monitoring device to help patients monitor a disease that is a No. 1 global killer, accounting for 30 percent of deaths worldwide. (full abstract)
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High Quality and Affordable Maternal Healthcare
Anant Kumar, CEO, LifeSpring Hospitals
LifeSpring Hospitals offers high quality maternal health care at an affordable price for low-income women and children in India LifeSpring Hospitals is an expanding chain of maternity hospitals that fills the void of high quality maternal healthcare for India’s lower income population. (full abstract)
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High-Quality and Accessible Care in Community Hospitals
Jeffrey L. Williams, Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Good Samaritan Health System
This report is not an attempt to show that community hospitals should perform EP device implants. Rather, we have described our system and objectively analyzed our outcomes to demonstrate that a focused community hospital electrophysiology team can develop an EP program with exceptional outcomes. (full abstract)
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How Sunlight is Helping the Hearing Impaired
Howard Weinstein, Social Entrepreneur, Solar Ear
Through the development of affordable hearing aids that are recharged by the sun, SolarEar helps the hearing-impaired improve their opportunity for education and employment. (full abstract)
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Improving transparency in heath care through technology
Ryan Schwarz, Director of Operations, Nyaya Health
Nyaya Health is constructing a low cost, online technology that promotes transparency is health care delivery, and uses a “wiki” model to do it. (full abstract)
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Innovation in Health Informatics & Advanced Remote Monitoring
Hasan Sapci, MD, Asst. Professor of Medical Informatics, Northern Kentucky University
With the aging population, the need for remote monitoring applications is exploding and there is an urgent need for specialized training and research programs. The University of Northern Kentucky is building a new specialized training program to provide applied experimental learning using virtual patient-data. (full abstract)
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Innovations in Health: The Speaking Book
Brian Julius, President, Books of Hope
Developed By Books of Hope and directed at areas of poor literacy, Speaking Books provides an innovative, interactive, and influential alternative venue for health awareness. Where one written word fails, one spoken word is worth 1,000. (full abstract)
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Is our Water Driving us to DRINK?
Lindsey Hoggle, Managing Partner, Health Project Partners, LLC
This poster examines the issue of contaminated water supplies and further researches the feasibility of using mobile emergency notification systems to keep residents informed of the health risks when water contamination occurs. Based upon the expense of replacing our nation’s water infrastructure, the world-wide drinking water shortage and the incidence of disease in countries which have contaminated water, it is clear that residents should be informed and take precautions until the infrastructure improves. (full abstract)
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Men Engaged in Nonviolence, Inc. (MEN)
Vishu Magee, Founder and President, Men Engaged in Nonviolence, Inc. (MEN)
By mobilizing men to help at-risk boys, MEN® achieves the dual objective of preventing youth violence and building the male community. (full abstract)
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Pranayama - More Than Just Breathing
Ronak Mogal, Graduate student, MS Health Care Management, Marymount University
Pranayama is a yogic science of respiration. The basic principle of pranayama is to supply maximum amount of Oxygen to the body cells through various breathing techniques. In recent years, pranayama has gained attention because of its benefits discovered by many Indian doctors and yoga followers (full abstract)
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Providing Clean Drinking Water with the Tulip Siphon Filter
Henk Holtslag, Connect International
In parts of the world where centralized water distribution and treatment systems are often too complicated of expensive, the Tulip Siphon filter can be employed at the household level, providing an inexpensive method of removing harmful bacteria from the water supply. (full abstract)
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Reducing Avoidable Hospital Admissions for the Underserved and Hard to Reach Populations
Randall Williams, CEO, Pharos Innovations
Pharos Innovations is using an innovative behavior change technology that unifies care coordination and daily patient monitoring at the point of care, which is dramatically improving care in rural communities. (full abstract)
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Technology Enabled Pro-active Care to "Make Me Healthy" in India
Gaurav Mundra, Chief Operating Officer, Truworth Health
In India, the poor living with chronic disease spend a quarter of their income of private care for treatments that only address diseases that have progressed significantly. “Make Me Healthy” has devised a 15-minute, at home health risk assessment that can dramatically improve preventative health. (full abstract)
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The Family Van: Health Care on the Move Through Mobile Clinics
Jennifer Bennet, Executive Director, Harvard Medical School, The Family Van
Using nontraditional health care, with web-portals and mobile clinics, more people can access health care and prevent diseases. (full abstract)
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The Power of a Diagnostic Lab in the Size of a Postage Stamp
Patrick Beattie, Scientist, Diagnostics for All
Using paper obtained from commercially-available printers, Diagnostics For All, has created a low-cost tool for indentifying diseases that can be implemented in developing countries and dramatically reducing the cost of diagnostics. See how a lab can be as small as a postage stamp. (full abstract)
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Transforming Cows into Kilowatts
Joseph Adelegan, President, Green Globe Trust
"Cows to Kilowatts" abates water pollution, improves ecosystem health, mitigates greenhouse gas emission and creates cheap source of domestic energy with environmentally safe organic fertiliser from slaughterhouse waste through the installation of sustainable biogas plant. (full abstract)
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Wound Care Across the Continuum
Laure Stasik, Clinical Director, Innovative Outcomes I
Innovative outcomes has a unique method of improving care of chronic wounds by assigning a case coordinator to patients entering the wound care system. The care coordinator serves as the point of contact for the health care team, following evidenced-based pathways and communicate with the patient and the team as the patient moves through treatment. (full abstract)
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