Blood Pressure mCuff

Overview

The Blood Pressure mCuff (BPmCuff) helps healthcare professionals and patients in hospital and home healthcare settings to measure blood pressure with an award-winning, low cost, connected device, specifically built for the needs of developing regions at less than one sixth of the cost of the cheapest existing devices. The BpMcuff is a device which can directly integrate to the infrastructure in the home and clinic, as well as support data transmission via cellular networks to a centralised Electronic Health Record system to give valuable statistics on disease prevalence.

The Problem

Globally, hypertension is a major chronic disease and it is considered by the World Health Organization to be a leading cause of death and disability with 75% of the 1 billion people affected living in developing countries.That translates to about 1 out of every 4 adults being afflicted with hypertension. Untreated, uncontrolled, and unmonitored hypertension increases the risk of damage to the arteries, heart attack, stroke, and other cardiac illnesses.

Barriers to the treatment of hypertension in low-resource settings include limited access to low cost accurate blood pressure monitors, lack of detailed data on variation of blood pressure readings over time, and lack of training on how/when to take reliable BP readings. Expensive devices are more likely to have had their accuracy validated, but it is hard to find a correctly validated low-cost device.