App 'stalker' locates health problems in daily gestures - ANSA.it

(ANSA) – Rome, May 23 – Thanks to an app and ‘possible for doctors to know everything of everyday life of patients, realizing then if there’ some problems. Ginger.io, tells the magazine MIT Technology Review, and ‘was made on an algorithm developed by the institution and allows for example to see if a diabetic patient and’ lethargic, a sign that he is not following the therapy.

The trial of the app, which can ‘only be used by physicians and health care facilities, and’ started in some U.S. hospitals. The program does not make diagnoses directly, but monitors all aspects of the patient’s journey, showing how it moves on the basis of the accelerometer and GPS, but also how many calls or how many text messages sent. If the system records some significant deviation from habits generates an alarm directly on the computer of the doctors, who can intervene. As well as in diabetic patients, and the app ‘in experimentation even on people with psychological problems such as depression:” At the moment the app only warns doctors – says the CEO of the company that developed the app Anmol Madan – but we are working on an automatic warning system, which could, for example, to display a message directly to the patient or to suggest a few friends to call him to check his condition.” (ANSA).