Role of Technology Helping Epilepsy Diagnosis in the Developing World Through TeleEEG

Abstract

UK Charity TeleEEG has proven a scalable and lean deployment model, enabling consultant physicians specializing in epilepsy diagnosis by EEG to volunteer as a virtual global team donating basic EEG equipment and skills. It was established in 2011, for the benefit of patients based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) who are suffering the long-term effects of an average 75% epilepsy treatment gap affecting neonates to octogenarians totaling 50,000,000 people worldwide. TeleEEG is delivering innovations in working practice, devices, consumables, and processes, underpinned by technology and adapting advances in machine learning.

⁺Dr Adrian J Fowle FRCP BSc, Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist President of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (BSCN).

⁺⁺Waste not, Want not. Folk Song, 1870.

*Our entirely charitable collaborations with world-class partner organizations that share our values and goals, notably include ROW Foundation, Rotary International (Durham Elvet and Darlington), Persyst, GOHE, and Lifelines iEEG through which we are able to deliver cost-effective solutions reaching the global health technical equivalent of the rural last mile.