into actionable insights, allowing doctors to better detect diseases, tumors and fractures while giving patients more information about their health.
The machine can also work far faster, diagnosing in a fraction of a second what may take several minutes for a human to determine. That can make a big difference for a doctor charged with treating dozens of patients a day. And with its ability to spot issues likeIt took three years of cold-calling hospitals to assemble the requisite data set to train Zebra Medical Vision’s system, and in 2018 Gura’s company received its first FDA clearance, for an algorithm that detects coronary blockage.
Celmatix also developed a proprietary genetic panel test, Fertilome, which screens for 46 genetic variants linked to reproductive conditions that can complicate pregnancy. “We’ve discovered non-obvious things in genes you wouldn’t normally associate with these processes,” says Beim, like previously overlooked biomarkers that can indicate increased risk of endometriosis or early menopause.
Since then, it has assembled “the largest structured data set for real-world evidence on the clinical side,” says Beim. “It is overthat we pulled from electronic medical record databases.” The smartwatch software essentially collects gesture data, monitoring how one’s hands move and tracking variances in behavior. “We train the algorithm to understand what smoking gestures look like and what eating gestures look like based on data we’ve collected from a huge pool of subjects,” says Shanmugam.
minutes, a person is likely to smoke. The system then sends text messages that anticipate — and warn against — smoking, steering the patient in a healthier direction.