by Stefan Milne, University of Washington A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created an app—FeverPhone—that transforms smartphones into thermometers without adding new hardware. To take someone’s temperature, the screen of a smartphone is held to a patient’s forehead. Shown here is lead author Joseph Breda (left), a UW doctoral student in the Paul...
By Nick Lavars October 10, 2022 The Echoes app captures recordings of a user’s heartbeat through the smartphone’s microphone Cellule Design Studio Smartphones are beginning to have a real influence on the way we manage our day-to-day health, and one area they may have a significant impact is in monitoring our hearts. A new study has demonstrated that...
by European Society of Cardiology A 12 lead ECG showing atrial fibrillation at approximately 150 beats per minute. Credit: James Heilman, MD/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Atrial fibrillation screening using conventional smartphones more than doubles the detection and treatment rate in older people compared to routine screening, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line session on 28...
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Smartphones could be used to scan people’s eyes for early-warning signs of glaucoma – helping to prevent severe ocular diseases and blindness, a new study reveals. Some of the most common eye-related diseases are avoidable and display strong risk factors before onset, but it is much harder to pinpoint a group of...
by Dartmouth College Researchers used mobile sensing data to predict brain connectivity between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (red) and right amygdala (green). The functional connectivity between these two regions is known to be associated with various aspects of mental health. Credit: Jeremy Huckins. Information on social activity, screen time and location from smartphones can predict connectivity...
By Judith Graham At first, Robert Zorowitz thought his 83-year-old mother was confused. She couldn’t remember passwords to accounts on her computer. She would call and say programs had stopped working. But over time, Zorowitz realized his mother — a highly intelligent woman who was comfortable with technology ― was showing early signs of dementia....
