Intelligent Digital Stethoscope for Improved Auscultation and Remote Healthcare

**目的：**使用自下而上的方法设计和营销性价比高的高端技术听诊器。**问题：**市场上的听诊器创新很少。其中，大多数都是通过考虑工程师的观点而不是考虑到用户的观点来开发的。它们也往往非常昂贵，特别是对于来自发展中国家的医疗专业人员。**解决方案：**在医疗保健部门工作了十年后，我们意识到今天使用的基本临床工具在技术上已经过时。这导致了使用人工智能(AI)高端技术开发高性价比数字医疗设备的想法。我们的目标是使用基于证据的公共卫生工具-健康需求评估(HNA)-从用户的角度设计我们的产品。海航在公共卫生领域被广泛使用，以了解用户的需求，并提高提供的医疗保健的质量。该工具使用自下而上的方法为用户提供量身定做的服务。**独特性：**我们重新设计听诊器并将其数字化，考虑到四大支柱。它们是准确性、互操作性、智能性和美观性(用户友好性和外观)。目前的听诊器技术使用的是普通的基于麦克风的系统，不智能，而且缺乏跟踪、存储和共享信息的能力。我们的智能听诊器能够：*互操作性(以音频和视频格式存储和共享信息)*支持健康专业人员做出更好的决策：与机器学习和人工智能集成所有这些改进都不会影响外观，听诊器具有触摸屏显示和图形用户界面，并带有兼容的应用程序，可在移动和PC上运行。**绿色增长战略：**我们专注于绿色增长战略，目标是使用可持续和环保的材料。**平等战略**：我们致力于确保我们所做的一切都考虑到平等和人权。市场是巨大的。我们的听诊器可供医生、护士、护理人员、兽医和家庭保健人员使用。不久，这种工具将不可避免地用于远程医疗和远程医疗。预计到2028年，全球听诊器市场规模将达到8.2672亿美元。2019年全球医疗器械市场规模为4476.3亿美元。新冠肺炎的大流行向我们展示了对远程医疗工具的需求。我们的主要竞争对手是Littmann Eko和ThinkLabs。在技术、传感器、美学、算法和人工智能方面，我们比他们具有竞争优势，我们正在利用这些优势来满足用户需求。

**Purpose:** Designing and marketing cost-effective high-end technology stethoscopes using bottom-up approach.**Problem:** Stethoscopes available in the market have undergone very little innovation. Of those, most have been developed by taking into consideration the engineer's perspective and not the user's perspective in mind. They also tend to be very expensive, especially for a medical professional from developing nations.**Solution:** After working in the medical care sector for a decade, we realized that essential clinical tools used today are technologically outdated. This led to the idea of developing cost-effective digital medical devices using high-end technology with Artificial Intelligence (AI). We aim to design our products from a user's perspective using an evidence-based Public Health tool - Health Needs Assessment (HNA). HNA is widely used in Public Health to understand the needs of the user and to improve the quality of healthcare delivered. This tool uses a bottoms-up approach to provide services that are tailor-made for the users.**Uniqueness:** We re-design and digitalise the stethoscope with four pillars in mind. They are accuracy, interoperability, intelligence, and aesthetics (user friendliness, and looks). The current stethoscope technology uses a normal microphone-based system is not smart and lacks the capability to track, store and share information.Our intelligent stethoscopes are capable of:* Interoperability (Storing and sharing information in audio and video format)* Supporting health professionals for better decisions: Integrated with Machine Learning and Artificial IntelligenceAll these advancements come without compromising the looks, the stethoscopes have touch screen displays with GUI interface and come with a compatible application that runs on mobile and PCs.**Green Growth strategy:** We are focused on a green growth strategy and aim to use sustainable and environmentally friendly materials.**Equality strategy**: We are committed to ensuring that equality and human rights are considered in everything we do.The market is massive. Our stethoscopes can be used by doctors, nurses, paramedics, veterinarians, and home healthcare. Sooner this tool is going to be inevitable for remote healthcare and telemedicine. The global stethoscope market size is anticipated to reach USD 826.72 million by 2028\. The global medical devices market size accounted at US$ 447.63 billion in 2019\. The Covid-19 pandemic shown us the requirement of tools for remote healthcare. Our major competitors are Littmann Eko, and ThinkLabs. We have a competitive advantage over them in terms of technology, sensors, aesthetics, algorithm and artificial intelligence, that we are using to deliver user requirements.