{"id":64465,"date":"2023-08-13T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T16:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=64465"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:20:05","slug":"breastit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/breastit\/","title":{"rendered":"breastIT carries out timely diagnosis of breast cancer using a mobile app and a glove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>  <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Moris Atwine<\/strong> lost a close relative to breast cancer while pursuing a bachelors degree <\/span>of<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Computer Science at <em>Makerere<\/em>.\u00a0 As a student of computer science, he thought of how he could stop the spread of breast cancer within their family using science and <\/span>technology,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> since one of the most ways breast cancer is spread is through family history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Together with <strong>David Mwesigwa<\/strong> a fellow computer scientist and <strong>Alvin Kabwama<\/strong> an electrical engineering graduate, they came up with <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>breastIT<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Link to online video<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boombox-responsive-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BreastIT\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UrrfdFL2lwY?start=107&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your products and services\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>breastIT<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is one of the flagship products from <\/span>thinkIT<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Limited, a software development company focused on the development and research of eHealth applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>breastIT<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> carries out diagnosis and prevention of breast cancer using a mobile phone application designed for smartphones. It carries out <\/span>timely<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> diagnosis of breast cancer using the information relayed to it by the \u201cHyphen glove\u201d which is the hardware connected to <\/span>smartphone<span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diagnosis is one of the main features of the app and once a user selects this functionality, he or she is prompted to start. Once one chooses the start option, the hyphen glove is turned on. A user must be wearing the glove by <\/span>time<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> it is turned on, then one can gently place in front of the breast of the patient, hover around to get a clear picture of the inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The app also offers educational tips on prevention. The device can be used both by hospitals and cancer registries to improve time and accuracy of diagnosis and by individuals in their own homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your success factors\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>breastIT<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is now in the validation process. This includes working on acquiring approvals from our three targeted test markets in Uganda: Gulu, <\/span>Mukono<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and Arua. We chose these districts because they have a high number of breast cancer cases, according to the Uganda Cancer Institute\u2019s 2015 breast cancer report. <\/span>breastIT<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> has been able to carry out surveys with the above communities to assess the viability and applicability of the solution. We have also been able to iterate the technology to develop a new prototype next to a market-ready device. With this device, we are working to improve accuracy beyond 90 percent, where we are at currently. We will be running more field tests that will help us get the required approvals to go to market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>breastIT<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> offers a prompt, accurate diagnosis using an\u00a0easy to use <\/span>device<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, that doesn&#8217;t require any medical knowledge to operate and has no any side effects. The technology has the potential to revolutionize breast cancer diagnosis because it&#8217;s easy to use, comfortable and low-cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your business model\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Right now, our revenue streams will come from hardware sales, additional service fees on top of the free software like medical record integration, government grants, contracts to develop further medical solutions, partnerships with nonprofits with similar goals, and academic grants for clinical research trials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A few words about your competitors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mammography is a specific type of breast imaging that uses low dose x-rays to detect cancer and MRI uses magnetic resonance imaging that uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves which all have side effects as opposed to <\/span>breastIT<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your website<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastit.thinkitlimited.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.breastit.thinkitlimited.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moris Atwine lost a close relative to breast cancer while pursuing a bachelors degree of Computer Science at Makerere.\u00a0 As a student of computer science, he thought of how he could stop the spread of breast cancer within their family using science and technology, since one of the most ways breast cancer is spread is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":64458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1803],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213190,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64465\/revisions\/213190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}