COPCAR consists of a system for cardiac monitoring and real-time diagnosis and direct communication with a SCC (signals collection center). It allows to decrease the patient assist time by 70% thanks to the automatic diagnostic’s agility and it’s validation by a set of specialist physicians located at the SCC. Patients can do an absolutely normal life while monitoring is underway.
The system works without any action by the patient and anywhere, as the patient will be always geographically located.
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED AND SOCIAL IMPACT
COPCAR will help reduce death stats caused by cardiovascular diseases (in Spain, 30% of cardiovascular diseases are ischemic heart disease, representing about 50.000 deaths per year). COPCAR will also reduce unnecessary asissts and thus, to decrease the problems due to the overloaded health system and overspending.
Another benefit from the system is a beneficial sense of tranquility and permanent protection for patients and their relatives, creating the needed ecosystem for independence maintaining for longer.
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world. 300 people die in Spain from cardiovascular disease each day, of which, 100 people die because of a heart attack. In 90% of cases, assistance is late, because every minute mean saving lives. In addition, people who have survived a severe cardiovascular disease, live with a high component of psychological insecurity.
Further, both public and private health systems support high query load and functional tests, which in many cases are unnecessary, assuming high hospital costs.
In this direction, the average spending on health will experience an average global growth over 4% between 2015 and 2019, according to the "global health sector Study 2016" prepared by the area of Life Sciences and Health Care of Deloitte.
In the case of COPCAR, innovation is the integration of existing technologies and, specially, the software for automatic detection of cardiovascular abnormalities developed by COPCAR (automatic diagnosis of abnormalities), which is able to alert of any cardiovascular event, including myocardial infarction, in real time and continuously, allowing the patients to do their normal life, anywhere. This software has been tested using more than 240 annotated electrocardiogram files.
The COPCAR system allows to detect risk events automatically and in real time, the evaluation of the events and actions to take, differentiating between event to take into account, urgency event and emergency event. Furthermore, the systems alerts or inform to the proper services (SCC, specialized emergency services, pre-emergency, emergency, specialists or family). The system sends only those data which, once processed in the smartphone, are capable of generating a risk episode. Thus, not all electrical activity of the heart is sent.
Through the device that the patient wears (signal collection device + garment), the system allows to control the required cardiac parameters defined by the specialist to determine the patient's condition.
The service that COPCAR offers to patients is complemented by an smartphone app to allow the patient’s family to check the cardiological status or receive alerts on detection of serious cardiovascular event from the patient.
GLOBAL GOALS
• Minimize the number of deaths from ischemic heart disease, through the monitoring of patients prone to this disease (80% of the infarcted dying due to loneliness or remoteness from instant medical care).
• Reduce unnecessary spending on health care, as the COPCAR system discovers certain anomalies or medical episodes which do not require hospital admissions (i.e.: anxiety attacks confused with heart attacks which lead to numerous hospital admissions).
• Reduce unnecessary medical visits or revisions which pose unnecessary spending for public and private health systems.
• Make available to society a novel health preventive system which save costs and time to cardiovascular patient care and its agents involved: medical, family and health system as a whole.
