ECG IN A NICK OF TIME

It is no secret that the prevalence of cardio vascular diseases has increased by over 50% in India from 1990 to 2020, with an increase observed in each state. The contribution of these diseases to total deaths and disease burden in the country has almost doubled in the past 25 years. Heart disease now is the leading individual cause of disease burden in India, and stroke is the fifth leading cause. What does this tell us ? It calls for an effort to empower the electro medical sector with affordable cutting edge cardio equipment that can help us fight this disease better. We need to enable our doctors/medical workers with equipments that make their lives easier and help alleviate this burden.

The most important aspect of managing a heart problem is to be able to monitor it and capture the heart’s activity when the symptoms appear. It often happens that patients experience the symptoms and by the time they do something about it or get to a doctor the heart stops exhibiting the same behaviour and hence the cause goes undetected. Timely diagnosis is critical to achieve timely intervention. It is very important to get an ECG done within the 30minute window from the time the symptoms start to appear. 

Along with the above mentioned challenges, the public hospitals in the rural regions of India also face other problems. Deficient infrastructure and high out-of-pocket expenses are some of their major pain points. There is already a trend within the medical sector to make the equipments being used in the hospital more portable; the capability to move diagnostic equipment to a patient’s bedside instead of needing a dedicated room makes hospitals more efficient. All these factors were weighed in to create a product like that of Medigraphy’s ECG. This 12 channel ECG device is so compact and light weight(less than 100gm) that it can be carried around by the practitioners on visits as well as it can be used in hospitals/clinics with space constraints. Medical camps and mobile hospitals often face problems carrying large equipment around to serve their patients. This pocket sized ECG is a dream come true for practitioners on the go. 

The sign of a modern assistive health device is not just portability but also inclusion of e-health technology. Connectivity is another crucial factor in this new era of portable healthcare devices. The ability for devices of all kinds to connect to the Internet — the so-called Internet of Things — means that the device can be in constant contact with the professional healthcare provider and the patient. Medigraphy’s ECG is paired with a dedicated app on your smartphone where the ecg reports get generated. The app enables you to share, save or print the reports instantly. This enables us to monitor conditions in real time, view trends and take decisions faster than ever. 

As a company, we are committed to our passion of positively disrupting the electro medical equipment market. Our goal is to continue to bring together healthcare devices and technology in a way that can change lives. While we work our way to attain unequivocal quality standards for our products, we also  ensure they are affordable. Healthcare, science and technology together can change the world and we are more than excited to drive this change.