Yes, smartphone nowadays is
extremely helpful and definitely changing the course of history by making
things so connected, information ready to use. A new stream of Health projects
are growing nowadays, researchers are trying to use smartphone to diagnose the
illness and to find out about the disease. Yes, you can now use your smartphone
to find diseases like HIV just in a few seconds and saving lot of money.
A small team of researchers at
Columbia University was able to create a portable-device that can diagnose
syphilis and HIV in just 15 minutes of time using just a finger prick of blood.
This device is easy to use because it can be attached to your smartphone. Once
the test is completed, the results will be displayed onto your smartphone.
It is definitely a Game Changer
in terms of Home diagnostics and will help the people which are far away from
proper Health care centers.
A single HIV test can cost up to
$20,000 according to Dr. Urbina. This device can do the same in for little
amount of $34 and on the top it can be used anytime and anywhere. Moreover, usage of this device can
be learnt in just 30 minutes and that’s it.
Although the device is so handy
and useful, it has some downside too like it can detect HIV at the end of the
month in which the patient is infected. But don’t worry the researcher are
working to make these kind of devices more efficient and will be rolled out in
couple of years.