MOSCOW – These days, people no longer have to go to a doctor to diagnose anailment. All they need is a smartphone and a MeCare app developed in Russia.
A smartphone-enabled platform developed by a team of engineers in NizhnyNovgorod helps iPhone users diagnose ailments at an early stage.
According to the MeCare project’s author and manager Sergei Blintsov, theapplication also enables the use of a fitness-bracelet or smart watchto provide the owner with a clearer picture of his or her physicalcondition.
“MeCare has devised a unique method of diagnosing various ailmentsincluding an express-diagnostics for Parkinson’s diseaselink>and identifyingcardio-vascular conditions by analyzing a patient’s selfies,” Blintsov saidin a written interview with Sputnik.
He added that an analysis of the algorithms’ efficiency had found thatup to 95 percent of the diagnoses were correct.
The team behind the MeCare platform is developing ever newer algorithmsto expand the list of health conditions they are able to diagnose.
The idea to develop MeCare came after the team took part in the Russianfinal of the Microsoft Imagine 2017 international contest with a differentproject.
“Medicine and health care are vital spheres of our life and I’m sure thatthey will keep developing in the coming decades. It is my firm convictionthat the MeCare application must be available on a free of charge basis. Wealso plan to give paid consultations and we are developing a varietyof rehabilitation instruments for our clients,” Sergei Blintsov said.