Smartphones are gradually becoming tools for medical purposes. Mobile phones are used got reading rests results, scan photos taken on phone cameras and even to check the oxygen levels instead of a pulse oximeters.
Oxygen On Phone Tips
An NPJ Digital Medicine study this week revealed that measuring oxygen in the blood is indeed possible. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of California Dan Diego and University of Washington. For this tech to work, developers have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help decipher blood oxygen reading with use of close-up videos of a your finger that a smartphone camera captures.
Summing Up
Matthew Thompson, M.D., Ph.D., from UW School of Medicine said “In an ideal world, this information could be seamlessly transmitted to a doctor’s office. This would be really beneficial for telemedicine appointments or for triage nurses to be able to quickly determine whether patients need to go to the emergency department or if they can continue to rest at home and make an appointment with their primary care provider later.” The study is yet to be conclusive since there is a need for more inclusiveness among participants. Currently the latter are six in number and are white.
