Implementing a hospital-based continuous patient monitoring system using consumer wearable devices in Ghana
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Funding Fogarty Program
Mobile Health (mHealth)
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Implementing a hospital-based continuous patient monitoring system using consumer wearable devices in Ghana
Principal Institution
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Ghomrawi, Hassan; Abdullah, Fizan; Appeadu-Mensah, William; Kaufmann, Elsie Effah
Project Contact Information
Email:
hassan.ghomrawi1@northwestern.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2024-2026
Country
Ghana
Collaborators
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH)
Project Description
Public hospitals in most of West Africa, including Ghana, rely on intermittent manual monitoring to detect physiologic deterioration associated with complications, resulting in missed complications. This project aims to validate and implement a continuous monitoring system based on widely available consumer wearable devices to be used in the hospitals for timely detection of physiologic deterioration.
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