Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology and Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences (NISAN)
| Selected winner: | Auckland University of Technology |
| Solution name: | free Stroke Riskometer app for lay people and PreventS-MD for health professionals |
| Origin of the winner: | New Zealand |
National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences (NISAN) of Auckland University of Technology is an internationally recognised hub for research on stroke epidemiology and prevention.
free Stroke Riskometer app for lay people and PreventS-MD for health professionals
The free Stroke Riskometer app (translated into 19 languages covering 5.3 billion people) raises awareness about stroke, allows calculation of both absolute and relative risks of stroke for people aged 20-93, educates them about their stroke/cardiovascular disease risk factors and motivates them to reduce their risk. By communicating with the electronic patient management system of the health provider the PreventS-MD webapp allows semi-automatic collection of information on stroke risk factors to calculate an absolute and relative risk of stroke and heart attack and generate patient-tailored recommendations for their prevention for the individual patient.
The app has been lauded by Professor Dipes Kumar Mandal, President, Stroke Foundation of Bengal, for opening a new chapter in the field of global stroke awareness and prevention, and the people of low- and middle-income group of countries will be best benefited, where basic infrastructure of overall stroke management is not readily available.
The wide use of these tools is expected to avert at least 300 million deaths and avoid over 1 million stroke, ischaemic heart disease, dementia, diabetes mellitus and cancer events annually, and save the global economy billions of dollars.
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