Matrix: Female Health and Care
Lead Participant:
STILIYANA MINKOVSKA LTD
Abstract
In its most fundamental form, Matrix is a 21st century replacement of the speculum, a digitally enabled device designed for patient comfort and self-use in a clinical setting.
Matrix is disrupting the invasive instrument that is the speculum and its culturally inappropriate application. The speculum is widely used in gynaecology. It's not niche -- women and people with uteruses come across it at least a few times in their lifetimes during routine and urgent gynaecological appointments.
Matrix is not only a product or a service offering. Matrix is a use case with radical and pioneering philosophy -- a philosophy which places patient experience and physiological understanding of the maternal-female body at the forefront of design and manufacture.
Matrix is a data-generating ecosystem. It enables the patient to fully control the experience, whilst transmitting visual data for real-time assessment in a unique digital archive that can inform treatment and further research.
The clinical pathway is very simple is straightforward for both the clinician and the patient. A person attends their pelvic appointment and collects the matrix kit. First, they apply the digitally enabled device (in this instance is Gloria) to take a photographic image. Then the person uses the swab to take a specimen sample.
The visual data is transmitted directly on-screen in the clinician's office. The clinician does not need to leave their desk. They can review results and prescribe clinical pathways and treatments whilst patients self-examine themselves. This will enhance the clinical practice by saving time, money and optimise clinical outcomes.
We are on a mission to prove that the future of the speculum is not a speculum and we will do this by democratising, decentralising and decolonising women's health and care.
Matrix is disrupting the invasive instrument that is the speculum and its culturally inappropriate application. The speculum is widely used in gynaecology. It's not niche -- women and people with uteruses come across it at least a few times in their lifetimes during routine and urgent gynaecological appointments.
Matrix is not only a product or a service offering. Matrix is a use case with radical and pioneering philosophy -- a philosophy which places patient experience and physiological understanding of the maternal-female body at the forefront of design and manufacture.
Matrix is a data-generating ecosystem. It enables the patient to fully control the experience, whilst transmitting visual data for real-time assessment in a unique digital archive that can inform treatment and further research.
The clinical pathway is very simple is straightforward for both the clinician and the patient. A person attends their pelvic appointment and collects the matrix kit. First, they apply the digitally enabled device (in this instance is Gloria) to take a photographic image. Then the person uses the swab to take a specimen sample.
The visual data is transmitted directly on-screen in the clinician's office. The clinician does not need to leave their desk. They can review results and prescribe clinical pathways and treatments whilst patients self-examine themselves. This will enhance the clinical practice by saving time, money and optimise clinical outcomes.
We are on a mission to prove that the future of the speculum is not a speculum and we will do this by democratising, decentralising and decolonising women's health and care.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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STILIYANA MINKOVSKA LTD | £49,846 | £ 49,846 |
People |
ORCID iD |
Stiliyana Minkovska (Project Manager) |