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Developing Medical Technologies for Low-Resource Settings: Lessons From a Wireless Wearable Vital Signs Monitor–neoGuard

The neoGuard™ technology is a wireless wearable vital signs monitor attached to a patient's forehead to continuously measure oxygen saturation, pulse rate, respiratory rate and temperature. Developed with feedback from more than 400 health workers, primarily in East Africa, the product has been...

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Autores principales: Nantume, Assumpta, Shah, Sona, Cauvel, Teresa, Tomback, Matthew, Kilpatrick, Ryan, Afzal, Bushra, Kiwanuka, Noah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34723242
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.730951
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author Nantume, Assumpta
Shah, Sona
Cauvel, Teresa
Tomback, Matthew
Kilpatrick, Ryan
Afzal, Bushra
Kiwanuka, Noah
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description The neoGuard™ technology is a wireless wearable vital signs monitor attached to a patient's forehead to continuously measure oxygen saturation, pulse rate, respiratory rate and temperature. Developed with feedback from more than 400 health workers, primarily in East Africa, the product has been designed to meet the unique constraints of low-resource settings. This perspective piece by the innovators of neoGuard™ and some of their key partners examines the complicated journey of taking a medical technology from concept through clinical validation and finally to market. By shedding light on some of the most critical steps and common challenges encountered along the pathway to commercialization, the authors hope that their experiences will provide some valuable insights to other aspiring innovators in this space.
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spelling pubmed-85539362021-10-30 Developing Medical Technologies for Low-Resource Settings: Lessons From a Wireless Wearable Vital Signs Monitor–neoGuard Nantume, Assumpta Shah, Sona Cauvel, Teresa Tomback, Matthew Kilpatrick, Ryan Afzal, Bushra Kiwanuka, Noah Front Digit Health Digital Health The neoGuard™ technology is a wireless wearable vital signs monitor attached to a patient's forehead to continuously measure oxygen saturation, pulse rate, respiratory rate and temperature. Developed with feedback from more than 400 health workers, primarily in East Africa, the product has been designed to meet the unique constraints of low-resource settings. This perspective piece by the innovators of neoGuard™ and some of their key partners examines the complicated journey of taking a medical technology from concept through clinical validation and finally to market. By shedding light on some of the most critical steps and common challenges encountered along the pathway to commercialization, the authors hope that their experiences will provide some valuable insights to other aspiring innovators in this space. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8553936/ /pubmed/34723242 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.730951 Text en Copyright © 2021 Nantume, Shah, Cauvel, Tomback, Kilpatrick, Afzal and Kiwanuka. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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