m-Track: Maternal Tracking and Risk Analysis for Preeclampsia via Digital Wearables

Kolawole Akinjiola of mDoc Healthcare in Nigeria will build on mDoc’s digital health platform for maternal self-care to pilot test a wearable, vital signs monitor for real-time monitoring of preeclampsia risk during pregnancy. The project will be a collaboration with the University of Purdue in the U.S. and Corsano Health in The Netherlands. A cohort of pregnant women at 20 weeks of gestation will be recruited in two Nigerian cities, 250 participants in Ikorodu and 50 in Kano, and they will be followed through pregnancy and delivery. Women will be given a Corsano wearable device for passive, continuous monitoring of vital signs and wireless transmission to mDoc’s CompleteHealth application. Data modeling will be used to develop a preeclampsia risk prediction model, and a subset of the cohort will be tested to determine if the key underlying model data can be captured with simpler inexpensive wearable monitors.