Trying to entrust our health to the machine
Medicine online: useful services
After the pandemic, modern technologies in medicine are developing even faster – and all of them are aimed at the comfort of patients. With remote services, the life of patients becomes easier and more enjoyable: they save money and time, and you can not be afraid of getting infected during seasonal epidemics.
In addition, after 2045, life expectancy is projected to increase by a full year each year. And first of all, thanks to health-tech solutions, it will be convenient for patients to monitor their health, and it will be easier for doctors to prevent diseases.
So, let's look at what health-tech services and solutions have already appeared and why they are convenient for people.
Electronic prescription from Medicata
Russian digital platform erx.ru, which brings together a doctor, a patient and a pharmacy. It works like a regular application – the patient just needs to install it on their smartphone. So, he will always have prescribed medicines at hand, which he can easily find at a bargain price in the nearest pharmacy, and buy – by Q-code, he appears right on the platform. Moreover, the patient with the help of ER will be able to order the delivery of medicines directly to the house – even prescribed ones. And there will be no need to parse the incomprehensible handwriting of the doctor or go to him for a prescription – everything works remotely.
Ada Diagnosis Analyzer
Nowadays, nothing is easier than getting a medical diagnosis. Do you feel bad? You go to the Internet, enter “fatigue” or “headache” into the search box – and now it seems that this is definitely lupus. But not all sources on the network are reliable, and we do not have the knowledge to make diagnoses. If you feel unwell, you should go to the doctor. But if you still want to know at least something, there is Ada. This German mobile application helps to find out the possible causes of ailments, and in its work it uses a database with information on more than 10 million verified diagnoses. Initially, it was developed as a service platform for doctors, but then they realized that the application is also useful for patients.
To make a preliminary diagnosis, Ada launches a special chatbot. You list disturbing symptoms in a free form, and artificial intelligence algorithms process them and form clarifying questions. For example, if you enter “pain in the stomach”, the chatbot will ask where exactly (it will offer to choose in the picture), how long and how badly it hurts, and if there are other symptoms, such as heartburn. Whether a person is taking anti-inflammatory drugs, drinking alcohol, whether there is a sore throat or muscle pain – the application asks a lot of additional questions and their number and nature as a whole depends on the logic of the patient's answers. If the question is difficult, Ada offers a detailed explanation with pictures.
Having collected all the information, the application analyzes it and offers several options for possible diagnoses with a detailed description, the likelihood of confirmation, as well as recommendations on what should be done to solve the problem.
Ladies Doctor Flo
The Belarusian application for analyzing women's health Flo has been downloaded by more than 180 million users worldwide, and in the US it has become the most popular women's calendar. The thing is that, unlike standard applications that can only predict a regular cycle, the Flo neural network predicts the course of irregular menstruation.
The application collects a large amount of data about the user's well-being. You enter information about the cycle, physical symptoms, sleep, mood, weight, amount of water drunk – the application understands more than 70 states. Then, based on machine learning and heuristic algorithms, Flo analyzes and predicts the first day, average cycle length, ovulation date, and pregnancy probability.
In addition, Flo users receive personalized multimedia content. Diagnostic chatbots, articles, videos, and even illustrated courses help a woman better understand if everything is fine with her health. Content for Flo is created by 80 physicians from Europe and North America, as well as eight partner organizations – universities, medical associations, healthcare institutions, including the European Council and College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (EBCOG) and the Society for Endometriosis and Uterine Diseases.
About Moles
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the world. By the age of 70, it is found in one in five people. This is facilitated, first of all, by the fashion for tanning. A person who gets five or more sunburns doubles their risk of skin cancer. However, there is good news – with early diagnosis, the disease is curable in 90% of cases. Therefore, it is important to regularly examine yourself from head to toe in order to detect signs of malignant tumors in time. And if you find a suspicious mole, be sure to run to the doctor.
But it is not always possible to get to a truly experienced specialist. That is why the Volga Research Medical University (PIMU) decided to transfer the accumulated experience of dermatologists to artificial intelligence – and in cooperation with the Skolkovo resident, they created the ProRodinki mobile application.
Doctors, together with IT specialists, collected a database of several tens of thousands of images with confirmed diagnoses and trained a neural network with it. In a few seconds, the artificial intelligence of "ProRodinki" assesses the danger of a neoplasm. To do this, you indicate the features of the skin, information about where and when you noticed the mole, then take a picture of it with your phone camera and upload it to the application. The neural network analyzes all the data and issues a recommendation – visit a doctor or continue monitoring.The application has passed the tests based on pimo and showed sensitivity and specificity above the indicators of the average dermatologist.
Psychotherapy with Youuper
The famous saying that all diseases – from stress, has a completely real medical justification. Our negative emotions affect health. For example, stress and overvoltage cause a splash of cortisol hormone in the blood, and he, in turn, is a delay in menstruation or insomnia. Therefore, it is important to be aware of mental experiences and control them. But sometimes it is difficult to understand what specifically happens in the head, what thoughts and emotions cause anxiety or depression. It was for these purposes to be developed by youuper. This application combined the tools and techniques of the world's leading psychotherapeutic practices (such as cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy and meditation) with artificial intelligence algorithms.
Once a day, Youper asks: "How are you?". You answer this simultaneously simple and complex question with the help of an impressive menu from emotional states: "annoyed", "I feel guilty", "is filled with emotions", "disappointed", "tired", "sad", "I'm afraid", "happy" , "Inspired", "calm", etc. Then Youuper builds a conversation around your selection, asking additional questions. His goal is to understand what particular emotion affects well-being, as far as it is strong and most importantly, what are the causes. After identifying possible sources of concern, the application offers techniques to study the situation, and the conversation itself is abstract in the format of the emotion diary.
Healthy sleep from Sleep Space
Since the light bulb has invented, people began to sleep less. And when a 24-hour work was included in the fashion, the night rest was in principle assigned the status of empty spending time. Meanwhile, neurobiologists throughout the world are alarming and talk about the importance of eight-hour sleep in the dark. After all, the lack of sleep and dried daily biorhythms lead, at best, to problems with mood, concentration and weight, and at worst – to Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. To improve sleep, special pillows, blankets, lamps, as well as mobile applications are now developing. One of them is Sleep Space.
Sleep Space applies sleep with artificial intelligence algorithms working in a team with scientific data on the work of the brain, relaxation techniques, as well as the physics of the spread of light and sound. Returning to sleep, you put the phone next to the bed (the company even developed a special docking station for this). Sleep Space throughout the night in real time analyzes the surrounding sounds and, depending on what it "hears" is a car noise or bark of a neighbor dog – includes a special white or pink noise. This Sonic Sleep audio product, according to the creators, blocks more sound frequencies than standard white noise.And if you sleep with a snoring neighbor – "Mask from snoring" is invented for him. It neutralizes unpleasant sounds with the help of the same rose noise, and in addition – by pressing a special button – can send a vibration on the Apple Watch partner on the bed, forcing it to turn over.
In addition to monitoring the noise in the environment, the application monitors the phases and quality of sleep and includes a smart alarm clock during the light phase – such an awakening gives a sense of vigor in the morning. Also in the application built in Chat Bot, which will help to deal with such problems as long falling asleep or insomnia, and prompts the ways to overcome them.
Online Diagnostics TYTOCARE
TYTOCARE is an appliance for online diagnostics with display and interchangeable nozzles, which has a communication function with a doctor and synchronization with a medapation. So, the doctor will be able to examine the state of the lungs, inspect the ears, throat and nose, skin cover, as well as measure heart rate and temperature. The uniqueness of the decision is the ability to carry out a remote examination of the patient as close as possible to full-time. In online mode, the doctor receives data that is transmitted to TYTocare and can see an objective picture, and not just "from the patient's words." The European Medical Center launched this Israeli technology in pilot experimental mode as part of scientific research "School EMC" before receiving permits. In EMS TYTOCARE – part of the new philosophy of the digital hospital and "Health 360" – System Improvement Programs, built on a comprehensive study and monitoring of the Customer's condition within the Clinic of Preventive Medicine.
ATLAS genetic studies
Atlas offers patients with two analyzes: genetic to identify the risks of disease development, hereditary diseases, history of origin, and microbiotes from which you can learn about the state of the intestine. All information is stored in an appendix, in which, based on test results, there will be useful tips on nutrition, health data, sports restrictions, etc.