How the smartphone is living up to its name with healthcare’s latest mobile application
Orange County, CA - August 12th 2016 - Could your phone tell you that you’re healthy? Maybe it thinks you seem a bit unwell today. Would you trust it? Would a healthcare professional?
Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH), a company focused on defining and measuring health outcomes, and SoftServe, a technology company, came together to create Sense360, a mobile application that collects data in the background of your phone to help determine behavioral patterns. It is then able to recognize those patterns as good or bad.
Every trip to the doctor includes a series of questions about your monotonous day to day that most of the time is forgotten or recalled inaccurately; skewing the doctor’s perception of what could be wrong. This application has the ability to remember those things for you.
Sense360, which is only available on Android, is in alpha right now and plans to launch the beta toward the end of 2016. It collects data through sensors that are already apart of the smartphone, so no extra attachments, and is currently being used in a study where participants are living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Participants of the study allow the phone to passively collect data as they continue about their daily life and are then given surveys about each day’s outcome. This information is then compiled using machine learning algorithms and attempts to track how the participant’s diabetes is impacting their life.
Alex Amelin, senior vice president of Client Success at SoftServe, has said the app’s combination of traditional paperwork and electric monitoring, “actually allowed healthcare to be truly patient centered and personalized."
The outcome of the study will hopefully be finding the app’s most predictive factors and that they can be scalable, dependable and reproducible with minimal input from the user. CEO of OBH, Rupert Dunbar-Rees, says they’re still in the refining process of finding them.
The application runs on Funf framework and SoftServe worked hard to ensure the app reduced memory and battery consumption while still being able to record the step counter, gyroscope, data on the number of calls, texts, videos, photos, apps running, and even the amount of light in the person's environment.
