Comfit HealthCare Devices Limited was established in 2017 and became one of companies in Hong Kong Science Park.
Comfit focuses on R&D of personalized healthcare technology devices for elderly, discharged patients and health conscious people.
By integrating IOT (Internet of Thing) technologies, Comfit provides vital signs and activity tracking, cloud storage, retrieval and mobile APP notification in our solution.
Vital signs (e.g. ECG, heart rate, blood pressure change and SpO2) and body posture are measured. The measured data is not only summarized to the users but their family doctors for reference though the Remote Patient Management Platform. With appropriate algorithm, the possibility of potential stroke recurrence and post myocardial Infarction can be calculated. Further down the road, machine learning will be used to analyse the data collected to help on early detection of other cardiovascular diseases.
STROKE PREVALENCE
In Hong Kong, stroke is the fourth commonest cause of death. There were 3,164 registered deaths in 2017. Stroke prevalent cases had increased by 52% in 9 years from 37,800 in 2010 to 57,500 in 2019. For elders between 75 to 84 years old, morbidity rate is as high as 7.8%.
Elders hit by Stroke may die or suffer from serious complications including mobility problem, speech problem, incontinence, difficulty in swallowing, pain, emotional problem and self-care ability.
While some stroke risk factors such as age and family history are non-modifiable, researches found that 80% are indeed preventable.
STROKE AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
Stroke can be divided into two ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Ischemic stroke accounts for over 80% of all strokes. Major causes include High Blood Pressure, High Low Density Cholesterol, Smoking, Obesity, Diabetes and Atrial Fibrillation. Around 10% of elders over 80 have Atrial Fibrillation (Afib). People having Afib have 5 times the risk than normal people for Stroke.
Reduction of elders hit by Stroke reduces (public/personal) health expenses, elderly care center resources, the suffering of the affected elders and their loved ones.
STROKE PREVENTION REMOTE PATIENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
Comfit Stroke Remote Patient Management Platform (RPM) is a closed loop system designed to reduce the prevalence of Stroke. The platform includes a Patient Mobile App to simplify the process of home monitoring. This App connects to Boomerang ECG device, BP monitor, weighing scale and automatically upload data to cloud. It also receives push Notifications, Annualized Stroke Risk and individual risk factor versus target back from the cloud system. Letting patient knows about his/her risk of having a (recurrent) stroke is the best way to improve a patient’s drug compliance which leads to reduced chance of developing a stroke.
The intelligent backend cloud system analyses the latest home monitoring data, patient clinical history, treatment targets, lab results, ECG data and makes use of Deep Learning algorithms to screen Afib, provide drug recommendations and prioritizes patients who require attention to the top of the dashboard list. As a result, a doctor can handle many more patients within the same period of time.
This platform is currently in clinical trial in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong. Three more hospitals in Sichuan and Macau will start clinical trial in the coming few months. The private healthcare provider Center Medical will start trial use before the end of 2022.
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