About two billion people worldwide suffer from blood conditions called anemia. People living with anemia are lower than the average number of red blood cells, or hemoglobin (HGB) protein, and as a result, oxygen vigor is reduced.
Chronic anemia may be at particular high risk with serious health issues such as heart attack and organ damage, pregnant women. So far, anemia identification requires CBC blood tests, hemoglobin and hemoglobin analysis, or a trip to the clinic for peripheral blood smear evaluation.
What if you can click on a selfie of your nails, and an AI-manual app can tell if you have anemia? This is exactly the expert Chapman university Has developed. The mobile app provides a non-invasive and convenient passage to check the signs of anemia with high level accuracy.
Does it really work?
The app has helped over 200,000 users across the United States and has done more than a million testing as part of a medical study. According to experts behind it, the app can be deployed as a highly scalable and accessible anemia surveillance tool.
The team behind the research found that their app “accuracy and demonstrated which matches the gold standard laboratory test and a sensitivity and uniqueness of 89% and 93%.” In addition, the app also offers an AI-manual privatization system for those who have already been detected anemia.
Once the app became personal, the error rate decreased even further. In this way an easily accessible digital tool will allow hundreds of crores of patients to regularly monitor their HGB levels immediately, without visiting clinics and doing expensive blood tests.
In 2020, Sangina also developed an app called Anemochec for people suffering from chronic anemia. Subsequently, the company said that it was not chasing any regulator approval for the app, and it was more than the lifestyle solution. There was a similar app tests Two years ago, India was considered good for public healthcare and screening.
What is the main advantage?
Experts at Chapman University clearly clarified that this app is not replacement for proper medical tests, nor has it been targeted on self-diagnosis. Instead, it only acts as a warning system that allows users to tell if they should consult a doctor, especially if they see the situation already deteriorating.
“The app is particularly valuable for people with chronic anemia, such as people with kidney disease or cancer, who often require frequent monitoring,” team says. In fact, when privatization facility of the app was enabled, the use increased accuracy in the target user pool by 50%.
The overroaching goal is to allow self-detection and allow experts to open doors for initial interventions, without waiting for the laboratory results to come. Interestingly, the underlying Geolocation feature of the app enabled that the team says “the first county-level anemia in the US”.
Experts behind the project are expecting that this app can help improve public health efforts by allowing population-wide anemia screening in the lead with regional mapping. More information about the project can be accessedNational Academy of Sciences proceedings (PNA) Journal.
