About the project
To bring accessibility of healthcare to the underserved communities of the world.
This project has been featured in MakerFaire Barcelona 2019.
The online exhibition of London Design Beinalle: Design in the Age of Crisis 2020
This project has been submitted for the COVID-19 effort of the DESIS Labs Network.
This project was one of the finalists for the design for emergencies. in the Distributed Design Awards 2020.
Project Type : Individual
Client : Master's Thesis Project
Year : 2019
The Processflow
HelloHealth is a project which aims to bring accessibility to healthcare to the underserved communities of the world. This project aims to seek to tackle the challenge of accessibility by using a combination of low-cost medical devices, a distributed manufacturing network; this will be done using the FabLab Network by designing the devices out of standard electronics inventory and a community to develop and expand it which will be an online repository on Wikifactory which will act as the central node for the community to gather and discuss and maintain the designs and codes required to make these devices. HelloHealth takes inspiration from the “HelloWorld” code, which is universal when learning a new coding language. HelloHealth aims to be the initial start toward universal healthcare.
MakerFaire Barcelona 2019 exhibit - These would be plans for assembly.
Today the paradigm for medical devices is like the smartwatch: for it to work, you need a cellphone, a mobile network, an internet connection in some cases, more so now with the future of IoT. Instead, I wanted to create medical devices that can be self-sufficient, meaning they have their power supply and work without a cellphone grid or internet connection. Medical devices don’t work well or don’t work at all once you take them out of their environment (e.g., the hospital), but when we are providing healthcare services in the farthest reaches of the world, you need medical devices that work in those circumstances and at a cost that makes it possible for them to reach who need them the most.
Following is the exhibition I designed for MakerFaire Barcellona 2019.
HelloHealth project was one of the most challenging projects to complete. When I started working on this project, I had no idea about medical devices, and it turned out to be very difficult to get our hands on some medical devices and some knowledge about them.
The team has done everything possible to bring this product into reality. We had a lot of fun creating the prototype of this product and designing almost a system. And we were pleased when I completed it and got some positive feedback from the friends that tried our device.
I believe that this kind of technology can help people stay healthy, create new industries, and change how people think about health.
Conclusion :
More Info on the project here : Here
Prototype SpO2 mockup
Assembling ECG module
HelloECG PCB
Completed Assembly
3-D Prototype Mockup
The Process
