Technology
Octubre 28, 2022 - < 1 min

Your health with a selfie

The app analyzes transdermal optical images, which allows the measurement of about 10 health indices.

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Taking the pressure just by taking a selfie with your cell phone?

This is what the Chilean healthtech Medismart through smartcheck, an application that, using artificial intelligence, detects a series of indicators that make it possible to evaluate the risk of heart attack or vascular accident.

How does it work?
As reported by DFLiVE (www.dflive.cl), the app detects hemoglobin concentration in different parts of the face by analyzing transdermal optical images, which allows it to measure about 10 health indices. It also measures mental stress levels, skin age and heart rate.

Medismart is a healthtech created in 2020 that offers telemedicine, examinations and home delivery of drugs under a B2B model, in which companies and organizations pay a subscription per user.model, in which companies and organizations pay a subscription per user. It operates in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. Smartcheck, however, is currently only available in Chile.