Matrix: Female Health and Care

在其最基本的形式中，Matrix是21世纪的窥镜替代品，是一种为患者在临床环境中舒适和自我使用而设计的数字化设备。基质破坏了侵入性工具即窥镜及其在文化上的不当应用。窥器在妇科中应用广泛。它不是小众的——女性和有子宫的人在一生中至少会在常规和紧急妇科预约中遇到几次。矩阵不仅仅是一种产品或一种服务。Matrix是一个具有激进和开创性理念的用例，这种理念将患者体验和对母亲-女性身体的生理理解置于设计和制造的最前沿。Matrix是一个数据生成生态系统。它使患者能够完全控制体验，同时在独特的数字档案中传输实时评估的视觉数据，可以为治疗和进一步研究提供信息。临床途径非常简单，对临床医生和病人都很直接。一个人参加他们的盆腔预约并收集基质试剂盒。首先，他们应用数字设备（在这个例子中是Gloria）来拍摄照片。然后患者用棉签采集样本。可视数据直接在临床医生办公室的屏幕上传输。临床医生不需要离开办公桌。他们可以审查结果，并在患者自我检查的同时开出临床途径和治疗方案。这将通过节省时间、金钱和优化临床结果来加强临床实践。我们的使命是证明阴道的未来不是阴道，我们将通过妇女保健和护理的民主化、分散化和非殖民化来做到这一点。

In its most fundamental form, Matrix is a 21st century replacement of the speculum, a digitally enabled device designed for patient comfort and self-use in a clinical setting.Matrix is disrupting the invasive instrument that is the speculum and its culturally inappropriate application. The speculum is widely used in gynaecology. It's not niche -- women and people with uteruses come across it at least a few times in their lifetimes during routine and urgent gynaecological appointments.Matrix is not only a product or a service offering. Matrix is a use case with radical and pioneering philosophy -- a philosophy which places patient experience and physiological understanding of the maternal-female body at the forefront of design and manufacture.Matrix is a data-generating ecosystem. It enables the patient to fully control the experience, whilst transmitting visual data for real-time assessment in a unique digital archive that can inform treatment and further research.The clinical pathway is very simple is straightforward for both the clinician and the patient. A person attends their pelvic appointment and collects the matrix kit. First, they apply the digitally enabled device (in this instance is Gloria) to take a photographic image. Then the person uses the swab to take a specimen sample.The visual data is transmitted directly on-screen in the clinician's office. The clinician does not need to leave their desk. They can review results and prescribe clinical pathways and treatments whilst patients self-examine themselves. This will enhance the clinical practice by saving time, money and optimise clinical outcomes.We are on a mission to prove that the future of the speculum is not a speculum and we will do this by democratising, decentralising and decolonising women's health and care.