The AHOMKA platform, an innovative mobile app for patient-to-provider communication that developed through a collaboration between the School of Engineering and leading medical institutions in Ghana, has yielded positive results in tests with patients at high risk for heart attack or stroke.
Over the course of eight weeks, the participants’ average blood pressure readings decreased from 139/87 mmHG to a more manageable 126/83 mmHg.
More than 70% of the patients in this pilot study consistently used the digital tool at least weekly to measure their blood pressure—data that the app stored and shared with their doctors, according to the researchers in the November 2024 Health Sciences Investigations Journal.
“In Ghana, where we can have up to 7,000 patients per physician, traditional health care visits…