There is a huge amount of personal health information in the digital space. Only 20% of what keeps an individual healthy is contained in a clinical record. People have started to introduce technology into their daily routine: they run with fitness bracelets to monitor their heart rates, record their body parameters to monitor how the diet works, and calculate stress index in apps to listen to the best meditations. 

In addition, remote health monitoring apps have also gained great popularity. For example, the Heart Monitor app already has over 150K downloads on Google Play and Apple Store.

All this valuable information can be used to improve your services. Let’s see why you should collect health information and how you can do it with one tool — Shen.AI.

Why Do You Need Health Information?

Today, it is not enough to simply support online consultations with specialists. You have to keep up with the times and use new technologies to compete in the digital health market.

One solution is remote health monitoring, which can provide important information about patients and help improve services. Here are a few reasons why collecting this data has a lot of benefits:

Better And Faster Diagnostics

Daily monitoring of health indicators will help to detect health risks and advise the patient to visit a doctor when necessary. In turn, this information will be useful for the doctor to find diseases at an early stage and make an accurate diagnosis.

It is good news that patients can use personal devices and do not need special equipment.

For example, Shen.AI runs on a smartphone, tablet, or mid-range computer with a camera. This means that most of your patients will be able to start self-monitoring.

Treatment Adherence

Sometimes a correct diagnosis is not enough for successful treatment. Basically, the success of therapy depends on the patient themselves — how accurately they follow the recommendations. The patient will follow the progress in real time with the help of self-care apps, and this can motivate them to continue treatment. 

Moreover, users can provide their doctors access to health indicators and trends for additional monitoring. This is especially helpful for chronically ill patients who need to take multiple medications regularly.

Work Optimization

This argument follows logically from the first one. Since you will be able to detect diseases at an earlier stage, you can avoid a large number of crises. For example, by analyzing blood pressure indicators, it is possible to detect a violation in time and prescribe treatment before a patient has a heart attack.

Planning and control are good for any business, especially for one that is related to people’s health and well-being.

Business Growth And Monetization

You can use health information to generate more revenue. How does it work? 

Firstly, the patient will receive notifications that they should visit a specialist — this will increase the number of medical consultations booked. Secondly, you can create personalized content based on health parameters and offer additional services and products to patients. On the other hand, patients will receive medical care of the highest quality, tailored to their needs.

What Data Can Shen.AI Provide?

With Shen.AI technology, you will be able to access a large amount of health data. The tool not only scans vital signs but also provides information about health risks. Let’s look at each component in order.

Vital Signs

Vital signs include data such as blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, and blood oxygen saturation.

This information is used to measure basic bodily functions and assess the overall physical health of a person. On this basis, it is possible to suspect the presence of a disease and prescribe an examination, and then monitor the recovery process after making a diagnosis.

Measuring Vital Signs is a very important matter, but based on these Shen.AI can calculate other parameters that will provide additional information about the user.

Stress Index 

In preparation for a stressful situation, the nervous system activates many processes that help the body mobilize. This includes an increase in heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure. In addition, we can observe visual signs such as sweating, dilated pupils, flushing of the face, and more.

The stress index measures how stressed a person is during the measurement.

These indicators are important in the treatment and prevention of diseases since stress has a huge impact on all body systems. If the stress index is high, following additional examination, the doctor may determine the somatic nature of a particular disease. They will then prescribe the appropriate therapy for the patient to restore the nervous system.

Emotion Detection & Facial Expression Analysis

Emotion detection is an actively developing field of computer vision. With the help of detection technology, artificial intelligence analyzes changes in facial features — eye movements, the position of eyebrows, nostrils, lips, and gives an automatic assessment of the emotional state.

Information received helps to identify users in need of assistance and monitor the condition of patients during treatment or in the recovery phase. In the future, this technology will be the basis for predicting anxiety disorders and depression.

Cardiac Workload 

The cardiac workload is a measure of how hard the heart muscle works to pump blood throughout the body. It is calculated based on the heart rate and systolic blood pressure.

It is important to monitor this indicator both at rest and after exercise. If a patient has a high cardiac workload index at rest and after a little exercise, it may mean there is some kind of abnormality in the functioning of the cardiovascular system.

Vascular Age 

Vascular age is a measure of the age of the arteries, which is determined based on their stiffness.

If the vascular age is higher than the chronological age, this means that the patient is at risk of developing the vascular disease later in life.

Causes of vascular aging include a sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy diet, smoking, the presence of comorbidities, and more. Most of these factors are modifiable, so the analysis of this indicator can be used to conduct preventive therapy.

Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke, and Heart Failure 

These indicators show the likelihood of cardiovascular diseases in the patient within ten years.

It examines a lot of patient data such as gender, age, body mass index, blood pressure, and cholesterol, as well as information about bad habits and concomitant diseases to calculate these indicators.

According to the WHO, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. This group includes many diseases: coronary heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and more, as well as acute conditions such as heart attack, stroke, and acute heart failure.

The analysis of these indicators can help to increase the life expectancy of patients and even save their lives.

How To Get Health Information From Shen.AI?

Integrate the developer-friendly Shen.AI SDK into your app or website and access multiple patient health data in one solution. The technology supports iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows or can be built directly into dedicated hardware in a variety of applications.