A team of the Western Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (HES-SO) and city’s Ramesh Hospitals have embarked on a research programme to bring out advanced wearable medical devices that help doctors in early detection of cardiovascular and neurovascular diseases.
Dr. Enrico Maria Staderini, professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University and Dr. Dandamudi Prasad P.S., occupational health specialist visited the hospital where two of the University students took up research recently.
Mass production soon
Speaking on the occasion, Ramesh Hospitals’ managing director and chief cardiologist P. Ramesh Babu said wearable devices that could be used by masses would be brought out by the research team in a couple of years.
About the need for wearable medical devices, Dr. Ramesh Babu said: “In a majority of cases doctors are forced to depend on occasional data to diagnose medical conditions. As a result, patients across the globe either use an excess amount of medicine or get unwanted treatment,” he said.
“Simple, wearable devices that provide more data about a person’s condition can help us identify vulnerable patients,” he added.
Useful in India
Dr. Staderini said the wearable devices which they would produce soon will transmit vital information of the person who wears it to his mobile as well as the particular doctor’s phone. “Such devices would be useful in India with a huge rural population and the ever-increasing internet penetration will help such medical technology reach out to the masses,” he said.
“India has been importing 85% of its medical devices and such research programmes help us develop medical technology locally,” Dr. Dandamudi said.
