Cardiology Mobile App Sri Lanka

Cardiology Mobile Application

New Jersey 2013 – Friday, May 3rd

Current i2i Healthcare Team Sangeetha Amirthini Arunan Rajan Suthakar Nirusan Niroshan Yalnee Vaishnavi Ahilan

Ahilan Sivaganesan

Vaishnavi Sathi

Yalnee Shantharam

Niroshan Sriskandarajah

Nirusan Rajakulendran

Suthakar Sabapathy

Rajan Bala

Arunan Skandarajah

Amirthini Tharmalingam

Sangeetha Nadarajah

Healthcare Projects - 2012 Community / Local Gardening Project

Ubiquitous Mobile Application to Improve Health Concerns

Cardiology Mobile Application

Cardiologist Workflow Directed to clinic.

Clinic

call hotline when they have chest pain Directed to peripheral hospital

Peripheral hospital

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1 cardiologist in Jaffna, Sri Lanka serving 1.2 million patients

2 clinics that can administer thrombolytic 20 peripheral hospitals 10 ECG machines per 20 hospitals

Issues Identified Long wait list for cardiothoracic surgery Lack of transportation Limited number of clinics treating thrombolytic Limited number of cardiologists Limited number ECG machines available Limited health education and awareness Currently no method to track patient records electronically Difficulty in identifying patients requiring emergent care

Potential Solution Mobile medical diagnostics app

Collects and stores patient-level data

Creation of customizable questionnaires

Remote physician diagnosis

SANA Workflow

Healthcare Worker Collects

Archived and Stored

Physician Diagnoses

Stakeholders

Timeline Formation of i2i Healthcare Team

Project Selection

Connected with Dr. Arulnithy

Chose and Connected with Sana

Identified Solutions

Established Assessment of Clinical Needs

Determined feasibility with Yarl IT Hub

Feasibility and Budget Estimation

Next Steps Present proposal to IMHO board Additional funding and resources Detail workflow with Dr. Arulnithy and SANA Liaise with SANA and Yarl IT Hub Detail mobile application

Challenges Awareness for Adoption

Assessment of local resources

Developing questionnaire

Long-term sustainability

Acknowledgement Dr. Arulnithy Dr. Celi, Dr. Paik, and Winkler Sayanthan Balathasan and Ramoshan Canagasby

IMHO Board Ahilan Sivaganesan, Vaishnavi Sathi, Yalnee Shantharam, Rajan Bala, Arunan Skandarajah, Amirthini Tharmalingam, Sangeetha Nadarajah