The future of healthcare might be held in the palm of your hand, with Brightlamp, a concussion-detecting app. The app uses the smartphone's camera and flash to shine a light in the user's eye, dilating the pupil. This image is then captured through your camera, stored, and sent to the cloud where it is able to be analyzed for signs of a concussion.
Through the pupil, our brain activity is on display, and the makers behind Brightlamp want to use the right sensors to ensure that the brain activity can be read when we need it the most. Through the development of mobile medicine, researchers are making the most out of smart phones, transforming them into medical devices. This application can read brain activity and detect concussions with a 98% accuracy, creating a world that's medically mobile.
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Mobile Medicine
- The development of mobile medicine is transforming smart phones into medical devices, enabling the creation of medically mobile world.
- Smartphone-based Healthcare
- Smartphones are revolutionizing healthcare by providing accurate and quick concussion-detection through apps such as Brightlamp.
- Remote Medical Diagnosis
- Remote medical diagnosis technology is making it possible to perform quick, accurate and affordable diagnosis of concussions using smartphones.
Sectors Adopting This
- Mobile App Development
- Opportunities for disruptive innovation in the mobile app development industry are vast in the area of healthcare, particularly with the development of concussion-detecting apps.
- Healthcare Technology
- The use of smartphones and apps such as Brightlamp is disrupting traditional healthcare technology industries by providing accurate and affordable medical diagnosis and treatment.
- Sports Medicine
- The sports medicine industry can take advantage of the development of concussion-detecting apps to aid in the assessment and treatment of sports injuries in real-time.
