Category: Apps

  • Phone-based support for psychosis

    Phone-based support for psychosis

    University of Washington’s Dror Ben Zeev has published a paper detailing a wide array of phone-based technology meant to support the recovery of psychosis throughout life — from early detection to symptom management to vocational rehabilitation, The study includes self reported mental health assessments, self-management interventions, medication reminders, messages from case managers, tele-therapy, and skill…

  • Weather, activity, sleep, stress data used to predict migraines

    Weather, activity, sleep, stress data used to predict migraines

    Migraine Alert by Second Opinion Health uses machine learning to analayze weather, activity, sleep, and stress, to determine if a user will have a migraine headache. The company claims that the algorithm is effective after 15 episodes are logged. They have launched a multi patient study with the Mayo Clinic, in which subjects use a phone and…

  • Phone camera + machine learning detect concussion

    Phone camera + machine learning detect concussion

    Shwetak Patel and UW colleagues have developed PupilScreen, an app that uses a phone’s camera to detect concussion from the pupil. The phone’s video camera and flash check the eye for its pupillary light reflex, measures size changes associated with concussion.  Machine learning algorithms confirm the diagnosis. Hospitals typically use a pen light to check…

  • Voice analysis as a diagnostic tool

    Voice analysis as a diagnostic tool

    Beyond Verbal recently used its emotion-detecting voice analysis app in an attempt to predict coronary artery disease in 150 study participants, 120 of whom had presented for angiography.  The company claims to have identified 13 voice features  associated with CAD – and one associated with a 19-fold increase in its likelihood. The researchers said that…

  • Curated, enterprise-wide, health app prescription system

    Curated, enterprise-wide, health app prescription system

    Mount Sinai Health System (with 7,100 physicians) has launched RxUniverse, an enterprise wide, curated app prescription system. Included apps have have been evaluated based on published evidence, to help physicians utilize digital health solutions, with an increased level of safety. A pilot platform was launched throughout five clinical areas at Mount Sinai earlier this year.  Physicians…

  • Mental illness symptoms self reported, empowering patients and alerting caregivers

    Mental illness symptoms self reported, empowering patients and alerting caregivers

    Monsenso is an app created to help those who suffer from mental illness gauge their own symptoms.   ApplySci applauds this and other attempts to empower the patient (as long as privacy is protected), which in itself could produce positive outcomes.  Data is continuously sent to clinicians, and emergency interventions are facilitated. Monsenso users complete…

  • Phone sensors detect anemia, irregular breathing, jaundice

    Phone sensors detect anemia, irregular breathing, jaundice

    University of Washington’s Shwetak Patel and his UbiComp Lab colleagues develop non-invasive, smartphone based tests, meant to bring diagnostics to the masses. HemaApp,  a smartphone/light  source detection  method for anemia, could be especially  useful in  areas  lacking  access to care.   Anemia is extremely common in poor  countries. In a recent study, a phone camera was  used…

  • “Data, not drugs” for elite sport performance

    “Data, not drugs” for elite sport performance

    With equal parts modesty, enthusiasm, and wearable tech expertise, Olympic cyclist Sky Christopherson came to ApplySci’s recent Wearable Tech + Digital Health + NeuroTech NYC conference to “thank this community for helping the US Olympic team before the last Olympics with a lot of the same technology to help athletes prepare, using data and not drugs.”…

  • App + wearable to quantify mindfulness

    App + wearable to quantify mindfulness

    Apple’s Breathe meditation app follows the recent trend of using wearables to quantify mindfulness and improve mental health. Every four hours (while wearing the Apple Watch) Breathe reminds one to inhale and exhale for one to five minutes. Concentric circles can be watched as they shift on the screen, or a wearer can respond to…

  • Sleep app uses wearable sensors, cloud analytics

    Sleep app uses wearable sensors, cloud analytics

    The American Sleep Apnea Association,  Apple and IBM have begun a study about the impact of sleep quality on daily activity level, alertness, productivity,  health and medical conditions. iPhone and Apple Watch sensors and the ResearchKit framework collect data from healthy and unhealthy sleepers, which is sent to the Watson Health Cloud. The SleepHealth app uses the watch’s  heart rate…

  • DeepMind Health identifies complication risks

    DeepMind Health identifies complication risks

    Google has announced DeepMind Health, which creates non-AI based apps to identify patientscomplication risk.  It is expected for AI to be integrated in the future. Acute kidney injury is the group’s initial focus, being tested by the UK National Health Service and the Royal Free Hospital London. The initial app, Streams, quickly alerts hospital staff of…

  • Concussion app gauges recovery

    Concussion app gauges recovery

    As the incidence of and focus on concussion grows, the neurotech community continues to develop diagnostic tools and treatment protocols. One such tool is the NYU developed Concussion Tracker app,  and corresponding study, designed to track self-reported physical and cognitive function after concussion.  The app does not, however, diagnose concussion. The goal is to monitor…