Health Innovation Video Introductions

"Game On" Against Cancer

Pam Omidyar, Founder and Board Chair, HopeLab

Developed by HopeLab, the video game, "Re-Mission", helps youths and adolescents battling cancer become more compliant with their treatments. Research suggests the game improves awareness and efficacy towards cancer, and an increased likelihood of self-care. (full abstract)

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"Scoping" out better health on a cell phone

Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D., UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, Ozcan Research Group

UCLA researchers are developing a lens-free imaging device that can be affixed to a cell phone and used for medical diagnostics in developing countries. (full abstract)

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A Decision-Support Platform for Better Nutrition

Chad Bonner, Co-Founder, Usable Health

Usable Health is a wellness and disease management organization that Improves health, while reducing costs associated with chronic illness, obesity, diabetes and coronary artery disease. (full abstract)

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A Retail Clinic In a Box

Tom L. Henke, CEO, QuickCheck Health

Where standard home diagnostic tests can produce results that are confusing and difficult for clinicians to verify, QuickCheck Health's technology is simpler to understand and results can be verified online. It also aims to dramatically-reduce the cost of diagnostic testing. (full abstract)

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Affordable Health Insurance for the Developing World

Steve Coffey, Vice President, MicroEnsure

MicroEnsure is the world's first insurance intermediary dedicated to serving the poor in the developing world with an appropriate and affordable range for insurance products (full abstract)

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An Innovative Online Platform for Funding and Developing New Technologies

Ewa Wojkowska, Co-Founder, Kopernik

An innovative online platform for emerging technologies, Kopernik reaches developing countries where technology is most needed and allows the public help to decide which products get funded for development. (full abstract)

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CellScope: Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis

Erik Douglas, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

By fitting a microscopy attachment to a conventional cell phone, CellScope is extending telemedicine to developing countries to dramatically improve diagnosis or tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. (full abstract)

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Empowering the Patient: Pfizer’s Disease and Care Management Programmes for Management of Patients With Chronic Conditions

Francesca Avolio, Pfizer
Richard Mendelsohn, Pfizer
Helena Jordan, Pfizer
Andrea Musilli, Pfizer
Alberto Deales, Pfizer
Martti Talja, Pfizer

See how the disease and care management programmes aim to empower individuals to make positive changes to the way they manage their health. (full abstract)

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Harnessing the power of human milk to fight infectious diarrhea in infants, travelers

John McCoy, Chief Scientific Officer, Gylcosyn, Inc.

Worldwide, infectious diarrhea is responsible for approximately 20 percent of all mortality in children under the age of 5, and for an estimated 2 million deaths annually. In addition to directly causing illness and death, diarrhea contributes to mortality from other diseases in children, including malnutrition and malaria. Through utilizing the properties human milk, Gylcosyn is developing additives that can save lives and improve health for millions around the globe. (full abstract)

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How Sunlight is Helping the Hearing Impaired

Howard Weinstein, Social Entrepreneur, Solar Ear

Through the development of affordable hearing aids that are recharged by the sun, SolarEar helps the hearing-impaired improve their opportunity for education and employment. (full abstract)

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Implementing Telecoaching Population Health Management Program for Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in Abu Dhabi

Stefan Kottmair, almeda GmbH
Tanja Kreiser, almeda GmbH
Pawel Brocki, almeda GmbH
Dr. Alfons Grabosch, Daman National Health Insurance

With the prevalence of diabetes in the United Arab Emirates up to 18 percent and half of the population overweight or obese, almeda GmbH has created a telecoaching program that aims to influence and motivate patients to change their lifestyle, to self-manage their chronic condition in order to prevent complications and to improve the quality of life and to reduce long-term costs. (full abstract)

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The Power of a Diagnostic Lab in the Size of a Postage Stamp

Patrick Beattie, Scientist, Diagnostics for All

Using paper obtained from commercially-available printers, Diagnostics For All, has created a low-cost tool for indentifying diseases that can be implemented in developing countries and dramatically reducing the cost of diagnostics. See how a lab can be as small as a postage stamp. (full abstract)

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The Risk of Breast Cancer Among Women Who Start Smoking at Teenagers

Emmanuel Odiase, Women Action Initiative Against Tobacco, SmokeFree Foundation

This Nigerian-Kenyan program examines the effect of smoking on breast cancer risk in a large population-based cohort of women, many of whom started smoking as teenagers. (full abstract)

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The rolling water container for developing countries

Piet Hendrikse, Owner/Designer, Q Drum

In regions where potable water sources are remote and scarce, the Q Drum makes transport significantly easier than traditional methods of transport. (full abstract)

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