pneumonia

A doctor looking at a patient's x-ray while in a video consultation
By  Adam Ang 01:39 am October 21, 2021
Fujifilm India has partnered with Bangalore-based multi-speciality private healthcare provider Sakra World Hospital to launch a new AI-enabled software assisting doctors in diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia. WHAT IT DOES The COVID-19 Pneumonia Image Analysis Programme automatically analyses chest CT images and display findings. It features Fujifilm's picture archiving and communication system SYNAPSE...
By  Jonah Comstock 01:15 pm December 19, 2017
Brisbane, Australia-based ResApp is planning to re-do its big US trial soon, but in the meantime the smartphone respiratory diagnosis company is continuing to collect data in its native country. The company released data yesterday from a clinical study of more than 1,300 adult patients at Joondalup Health Campus in Perth and Wesley Hospital in Brisbane. While the company’s previous studies have...
By  Jonah Comstock 02:26 pm October 24, 2016
ResApp, an Australian company developing an app to diagnose respiratory conditions based on cough sounds, has secured the first of three IRB approvals for its upcoming Smartcough-C pediatric trial, which will take place at the Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, and a third site yet to be announced. ResApp’s offering — an app called ResAppDx — essentially uses the smartphone...
By  Aditi Pai 03:50 pm April 20, 2016
Australia-based ResApp, a public company, has raised $9.74 million ($12.5 million Australian dollars) for its product, a smartphone-based system for diagnosing respiratory conditions. The company sold 62.5 million new ordinary shares at $0.16 ($0.20 AU) per share. ResApp’s offering essentially uses the smartphone microphone as a stethoscope to listen to a patient’s breathing. But instead of...
By  Jonah Comstock 12:44 pm April 4, 2016
A smartphone-based system for diagnosing respiratory diseases achieved an accuracy of 89 percent in a recent clinical study of 524 pediatric patients conducted by the company at Joondalup Health Campus (JHC) and Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) in Perth, Western Australia. Perth-based ResApp essentially uses the smartphone microphone as a stethoscope to listen to a patient’s breathing. But...