A new app analyzes mobile-phone activity for warning signs of disease flare-ups.
- Tuesday, June 21, 2011
- By Emily Singer
Ginger.io, a startup spun out of the MIT Media Lab, aims to use data collected automatically from mobile phones to warn users and their physicians that they may be on the verge of a manic episode or a bout of debilitating illness.
The company has developed a mobile-phone app called DailyData that analyzes information on the user's location and the frequency of calls and text messages to determine whether that person is having health problems. Ginger.io will market the software to health insurers and others who could use the aggregate data to better understand the links between health and behavior.
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The company has developed a mobile-phone app called DailyData that analyzes information on the user's location and the frequency of calls and text messages to determine whether that person is having health problems. Ginger.io will market the software to health insurers and others who could use the aggregate data to better understand the links between health and behavior.
Read more http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37866/?ref=rss
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