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Digital technology is unlocking new possibilities in healthcare, with relevant current hot topics in the healthcare space including:

  • Mobile application development;
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality;
  • Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing);
  • Internet of Things (IoT); and
  • Medical Robotics

The digital health and medical device development and commercialisation research group is hosted within the Faculty of Engineering in collaboration with the Faculty of Health Sciences and the NWU Business School. We're on a mission to provide low-cost, high impact digital health solutions, to enable remote patient care and decision support for people requiring healthcare interventions in developing countries. We focus on enabling data-driven screening, diagnostics, rehabilitation, and therapy in a multidisciplinary fashion.

We offer a limited number of bursaries to qualifying candidates, but also welcome self-funded students.

Scientific Focus

The scientific focus of the group is the development of low cost, high impact devices for the allied health professions. The products we develop with the developing world and specifically BRICS countries in mind.

Objectives of the group

  • Contributing to the welfare of people by using technology to multiply the impact of healthcare professionals, providing access to affordable screening, diagnostics, rehabilitation and therapy tools;
  • Contributing to the economy by creating jobs;
  • Human capital development through training of highly skilled manpower. Advanced training (research and coursework) in relevant fields of medical device development and integration will be undertaken;
  • Contributing to the international knowledge base of medical device development; Formalising the existing informal/ad-hoc collaboration between engineering and health sciences in order to provide, besides post-graduate training, selected consulting services to industry;
  • Facilitating knowledge and skills transfer through prototype development and demonstration of the technology at pilot scale.

 

For more information contact:

Building N1A, Office 204
(+27) 18 299 4058

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