Still In Development
Last Update: March 03, 2011
Winner of the Grand Prize in Global Health at the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition 2010 and Echoing Green fellows too! (http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/aman-midha-and-abhishek-sen)
Great new website & visuals on the anemia burden in India (http://www.biosense.in/the-anaemia-problem)
Biosense Technologies is introducing a cheap, portable prick-less scanning device for village health workers to screen and monitor anemia in rural India. The company estimates that 40% of maternal and neonatal mortality in India is due to anemia.
Under their Anaemedia project, Biosense has developed a prick-less anaemia scanner that can measure HB levels and help diagnose anaemia by referring to an accompanying simple chart. It is designed for use by low skilled village health workers, rugged and dust-proof to last in the countryside, and equipped with a rechargeable battery and hand crank mechanism for operation in areas with infrequent electric supply. Darshan Nayak came out of Stanford/India's Biodesign program. Biosense Technologies won the Emerging Award for innovative key entrepreneur ideation in healthcare at Sankalp 2009, India's Largest Social Enterprise and Investment Forum. The teams will undertake a pilot study with 3,000 women to be screened for anemia in primary healthcare centers in Parol and Bhatane in Maharashtra.
