BEACON-HD.
Funding Source
Horizon Europe - GA ID 101289715
Project Title
Building Equitable Health Systems through Telemedicine and Community-Based Models for Hypertension and Diabetes Care
Programme
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-06
Duration
June 2026 – May 2030
URLs
Cordis
Role
- Platform Development
- Exploitation
Description
Hypertension and diabetes are rising sharply across Sub-Saharan Africa, but rural health systems are stretched thin — some facilities serve over 60,000 residents, and patients can face multi-hour journeys for routine care. Led by the Technical University of Munich with a 12-partner consortium spanning Europe, the US, Rwanda, and Uganda, BEACON-HD tests two complementary care models: telemedicine-supported self-monitoring and community-based medication delivery. At the centre is CarePulse, a telemedicine platform built for low-resource settings — working over SMS and USSD on basic feature phones rather than smartphones. A cluster-randomised trial across 160 villages will generate the evidence needed to scale these models into national health policy.
Our Role
bSpoke leads Work Package 3, designing and building CarePulse end to end — architecture, real-time monitoring algorithms, and the interfaces patients and clinicians actually use.
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Platform architecture & design
end-to-end system architecture for CarePulse across enterprise, information, computational, engineering, and technology viewpoints -
Real-time monitoring algorithms
blood pressure/glucose breach detection, adherence tracking, and trend analysis -
Patient & clinician interfaces
SMS/USSD interface for feature phones, plus a clinician-facing web dashboard -
Pilot deployment & validation
first real-world deployment and stress-testing in rural Rwanda and Uganda
