Your phone could soon be upgraded to help you with your health.
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There are research projects that promise to turn phones into screening tools. One promising avenue involves using the onboard microphones on a phone as a stethoscope. Patients could save time and money by traveling to a doctor with the innovations.
Greg Corrado, head of Health Artificial Intelligence at Google, told Digital Trends in an interview that they are focused on unlocking the potential of everyday devices to support people's health and wellbeing.
In using existing clinical cameras to detect diabetic eye disease, it sees promising results. It plans to fund more trials on the use of phones. The company uses an artificial intelligence engine to process images.
People can get insights into their health with the help of mobile sensors and machine learning. The feature that allows you to measure your heart rate and respiratory rate with your phone is now available on the other platforms.
One area of research explores how a phone's built-in microphones can record heart sounds. It is possible to detect heart valve disorders by listening to someone's heart and lungs with a stethoscope. A stethoscope, an in-person assessment, and specialized equipment are required for screening for the condition.
This newest area of research explores how a phone's built-in microphone can record heart sounds when placed over the chest.
The CEO of Eko, the company that created the first artificial intelligence stethoscope, told Digital Trends in an interview that it's not clear how the stethoscope feature will be rolled out to consumers.
It's possible that patients with a risk for heart disease will be able to use the microphone on their phone to listen to their heart sounds and share the data with their doctor.
It would be easy to reach a large number of patients through these apps, Landgraf said. The software will need to be reviewed by the FDA and it may be considered a medical device.
Landgraf said that stethoscopes could be used to give patients more awareness and knowledge of their heart health. Many patients with heart valve disease are never treated because they are not diagnosed early enough by their primary doctor.
There is a wave of patients with undetected cardiac conditions, and this technology could play a role in helping provide more knowledge to these patients.
Low-income parents could be helped by the help of artificial intelligence. Real-time pictures and videos of internal organs, such as blood vessels and fetuses, can be created with the use of high-frequency sound waves. More than half of all birthing parents in low-to-middle-income countries don't receive the procedure due to a lack of expertise.
With more automated and accurate evaluations of maternal and fetal health risks, we hope to lower barriers and help people get timely care in the right settings.
Hila Goldman, CEO of DiA Imaging Analysis, told Digital Trends in an interview that artificial intelligence can act as a second set of eyes for doctors or provide diagnostic power that is impossible for humans.
In our area of ultrasound tests, visually analyzing the images is subjective, error prone, and highly dependent on the operator's experience, Goldman said.
Radiologists work chronologically on a first-come-first-served basis, without necessarily knowing if there are more urgent cases down the list that need addressing first.
Elad Walach is the CEO of Aidoc, a provider of health care artificial intelligence solutions. Patients can get timely treatment if the positive cases in the radiologist's workflows are flagged.
Radiologists face larger case volumes which can lead to burnout.
In an interview with Digital Trends, Ronald Dixon, a physician and the CEO of CareHive, said that he doesn't think that the health tools will have much of an impact on patients.
He said that the focus of the effort was on how you use technology to better diagnose or better manage patients without understanding the value of what that technology might provide.
The use of artificial intelligence could raise the cost of health care for consumers.
If the cost goes up because you are using technology to solve a problem, you are actually hurting the health care system. They do that because they are technology companies. It is a technology-first strategy as opposed to a clinical need-first strategy.
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