App to track patient’s recovery status launched

Using the app, patients who have difficulty in travelling to consult doctors can update their status and the kind of medical treatment they are undergoing. Using the same application, the doctors can check the status and guide the patients on what to do next.

“There is little or no mechanism to keep track of the patient’s treatment journeys that are referred to specialists. Most of the time doctors lose their patients in referral chains. The primary treating doctors who examined the patient for the first time and knows most about the patient need to be informed about the patient’s treatment cycle,” said Tarun Sahani, Internal and Hyperbaric Medicine expert at Indraprasta Apollo Hospital. 

IVH patient care has been developed by India Virtual Hospitals, a tech-enabled specialised Medical Concierge Service. Sahani added, “This may become a platform where doctors and specialists can interact and discuss about the patient with each other.”

Researchers have developed a computer code that could help robots understand body poses and movements, allowing them to perceive what people around them are doing, what moods they are in and whether they can be interrupted. 

“We communicate almost as much with the movement of our bodies as we do with our voice. But computers are more or less blind to it,” said Yaser Sheikh, Associate Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.

The new methods for tracking 2D human form and motion open up new ways for people and machines to interact with each other, and for people to use machines to better understand the world around them. 

The ability to recognise hand poses, for instance, will make it possible for people to interact with computers in new and more natural ways, such as communicating with computers simply by pointing at things. It could also help a self-driving car get an early warning that a pedestrian is about to step into the street by monitoring body language.

Researchers have developed a technology that could make identifying fake products as convenient as simply scanning them with a smartphone app. 

“It is wonderful to be on the front line, using scientific discovery in such a positive way to wage war on a global epidemic such as counterfeiting, which ultimately costs both lives and livelihoods alike,” said Professor Robert Young of Lancaster University. The new invention uses small flakes of Graphene, which are invisible to the human eye and 1/1000th of a human hair. 

Graphene can emit light that can be measured with a camera to procure a unique signal. The signal can then be turned into a number sequence which acts as a digital fingerprint. These can then be added to everyday items such as money, credit cards, passports and gig tickets. 

The customer will be able to scan the optical tag on a product with a smartphone, which will match the 2D tag with the manufacturer’s database to detect whether the product is genuine or fake, the researchers said. This patented technology and the related application can be expected to be available to the public in the first half of 2018.