Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2011
Winner
Stephen Matthews: Innovation Design Engineering
Healthcare Anytime-Anywhere
This project proposes a fully integrated healthcare service to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes. A wearable patch dispenses medication from six chambers and is loaded with intelligent sensors that transmit their data via a wireless link to a mobile phone. Type I Diabetes was used as a case study to demonstrate proof of concept.
Judge's comment:
"One individual has got as far in his Masters degree as many a large corporation with multi-million-dollar budgets. This has application far beyond diabetes." Brian Firth, Swiss Precision Diagnostics
Clearblue
Clearblue is the brand name of Swiss Precision Diagnostics, which was formed in 2007 as a joint venture between Inverness Medical Innovations and Procter & Gamble to create, using its parent companies' complementary strengths, one of the world's foremost organisations in consumer diagnostics.
