R. An, Qiaochu Zhang, Zoe Sekyonda, Matthew Lind, Daren Bledsoe, U. Gurkan
{"title":"First Integrated Point-of-Care Test for Malaria and Anemia","authors":"R. An, Qiaochu Zhang, Zoe Sekyonda, Matthew Lind, Daren Bledsoe, U. Gurkan","doi":"10.1109/HI-POCT54491.2022.9744056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HI-POCT54491.2022.9744056","url":null,"abstract":"Anemia affects more than 2 billion people worldwide, which is about 25% of the world’s population. Anemia has numerous causes ranging from nutritional deficiencies, primary hematologic diseases, and infectious diseases such as malaria. Among the various causes of anemia world-wide, malaria is the 3rd most prevalent cause in Sub-Saharan Africa and the 8th most prevalent cause globally. Anemia and malaria diagnosis/monitoring are challenging in low- and middle-income countries due to lack of laboratory infrastructure and skilled personnel as well as insufficient financial resources. We extended our previously established Gazelle™ malaria detection system to add total hemoglobin quantification and anemia testing capability. The new Gazelle Anemia-Malaria (Gazelle-A&M) is mass-producible at low cost and offers the first and only single point-of-care (POC) test for portable, affordable, and accurate, anemia and malaria diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":283503,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125699844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Merine, Jahnavi Pinnamraju, Darshpreet Singh, J. Gichoya, S. Purkayastha
{"title":"LibreHealth Cost-of-Care Explorer: Mobile Application for Patient-friendly Access to Hospital Chargemasters","authors":"R. Merine, Jahnavi Pinnamraju, Darshpreet Singh, J. Gichoya, S. Purkayastha","doi":"10.1109/HI-POCT54491.2022.9744078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HI-POCT54491.2022.9744078","url":null,"abstract":"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated that Charge Description Master (CDM) be available online in a machine-readable format by January 1, 2019. These changes were made to increase availability of hospital price information in order to provide patients with more access to their health information and allow physicians to spend more time with their patients. However, the mandated machine-readable formats make it impossible for a patient to interpret the pricing and hence limit price transparency. To bridge this gap, we developed a mobile application that can be used by patients to reveal the cost of a medical procedure or service before receiving it. Patients are able to compare the costs of medical procedures available in surrounding hospitals by viewing the hospital’s CDM and determine which hospital delivers the best care/medical procedures at the best price.Clinical relevance—The LibreHealth cost-of-care explorer app presents the cost of medical procedures in a consumer-friendly format. It provides patient-friendly cost estimates for medical procedures performed in US hospitals and promotes price transparency to the end users.","PeriodicalId":283503,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116674024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}