Is AI About To Replace Those Blood Pressure Monitoring Cuffs?
It could be as simple as shining a light onto your finger.
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Subscribe for free to get more stories like this directly to your inboxWe keep hearing stories about the next big thing in artificial intelligence, but every once in a while a story surfaces about a product that could really have a positive impact on our society. Many of these projects involve some aspect of the healthcare industry, from triage to surgery, and one new company thinks its platform can identify symptoms of a global killer more effectively than existing tools.
Important progress
The Switzerland-based company Aktiia has long been focused on reimagining blood pressure tech, and arguably its biggest project to date is one step closer to being used around the world. Its AI interface has been trained with a staggering 11 billion different pieces of data in order to monitor blood pressure without the expensive and intrusive inflatable cuffs found in a doctor’s office.
Making blood pressure monitoring easier and more accessible could have a huge impact. Research indicates that roughly 1.3 billion people worldwide are living with hypertension … and only about one-fifth of them have the condition under control.
Aktiia has now secured the approval of a key European Union regulator, so chances are good that its new product will continue moving toward a widespread rollout across the EU and beyond.
How it all works
Like many other breakthroughs in recent years, AI is a central component of this program. Essentially, it allows healthcare providers and patients to monitor blood pressure and heart rate using just an app and smartphone camera.
As Aktiia CEO Rags Gupta explained: “We shine a light into your finger, we capture signals and deliver back a medical valid blood pressure and heart rate reading.”
Providing easy access to screening is a “big deal,” he said, because early diagnoses and treatments can “save massive, massive costs downstream to the systems and to people’s lives.”
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