Arthur Zang
Created the CardioPad, a tablet-based cardiac diagnostic device
At a glance
- Inventor
- Arthur Zang
- Life
- b. 1987
- Birthplace
- Mbankomo, Cameroon
- Country
- Cameroon
- Region
- Africa
- Era
- 2000–Present
- Fields
- Medicine & Health, Technology & Computing
- Evidence
- Documented
- Records
- 1 in this archive
What they did
Zang, an engineer in Yaoundé, built a touchscreen device that captures an electrocardiogram in a rural clinic and transmits it wirelessly to a cardiologist in a city hospital for interpretation.
Historical context
Cameroon has a very small number of cardiologists, nearly all concentrated in two cities, while most patients live far outside them.
The legacy
A widely cited example of African biomedical engineering designed around local infrastructure rather than imported assumptions. Zang won the Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2014.
The evidence
Rolex Award for Enterprise laureate record, 2014
Institutional record
Documentation strength
- 1
- Sources
- 0
- Primary
- 1
- Publishers
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