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“Cordio Medical”, an Israeli-based company, is developing technology that will completely change the cardiovascular health industry. Software being developed by the company, headquartered in Or Yehuda in central Israel uses recordings of patients through a smartphone to determine whether the individual is experiencing heart failure.
Cordio-Medical's platform is specifically designed for patients who suffer from congestive heart diseases, and are medically monitored. Many of the millions all over the world who suffer from such conditions are at high risk of accumulating life-threatening amounts of fluids without ever noticing until it is too late.
Cordio-Medical’s new app, “HearO”, analyzes patients' voices to establish if any excess fluids are in the heart. If the technology notices any unusual changes in tone and speech, it will notify the patient. This amazing app gives doctors a huge advantage in fighting various heart disease complications, that otherwise would go unnoticed.
Tamir Tal, the company’s CEO, explained in what ways his company is leading within the cardiovascular world. “We’re probably one of the first companies in the world using speech to actually detect clinical conditions in humans. Speech carries a lot of personal information about us. When you talk to your mom just one sentence is enough for her to know how you feel.
Monitoring Congestive Heart Failure Through Speech: Interview with Tamir Tal, CEO of Cordio Medical
Cordio Medical, a medtech company based in Israel, has developed HearO, an app that can assist in monitoring congestive heart failure. The technolog…https://t.co/6nYhkNX3bQpic.twitter.com/Mkqi6URj9f
“We’re using speech to give the physician something they can objectively use to determine a patient’s actual medical condition.” Essentially, the audio software is capable of telling when excess fluids start filling up the lungs, causing a certain change while breathing and speaking.
At this point in medicine, only a thorough medical examination can determine if someone is experiencing the symptoms mentioned in the latter. Thus, most patients go completely unaware of their slow heart failure until it is simply too late.
Cordio Medical, a medical speech processing platform, announced that its HearO® system was able to successfully predict 82% of the first heart failure cases among patients in a recent study, 18 days on average before the incident occurred.#CHF#AIhttps://t.co/BIxD9tC87Y
One of the huge benefits of having such a life-saving system on a phone app is accessibility. “People don’t like to use medical devices designed to be used at home. They’re mainly designed for clinical efficacy, rather than the user’s happiness. But people are very happy to use their iPhone or Android.”
HearO, designed by Cordio Medical, will undergo two patient trials in Israel next year and has already been approved for early marketing in Spain and the UK. If the app receives full approval, it has the potential of saving hundreds of thousands of lives annually.
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