Quick Vitals, the world’s first AI and deep learning-powered health monitoring app, is revolutionizing health data management. This innovative platform provides real-time insights and actionable data, empowering both individuals and healthcare providers to make informed decisions. By streamlining health monitoring processes, Quick Vitals enhances patient outcomes and makes healthcare more accessible and efficient. Below is a transcript from a recent email interaction between FYI9 News and Harish Bisam, Founder of Quick Vitals.
Prateek: How does Quick Vitals leverage AI and deep learning to provide accurate health monitoring, and what sets it apart from other health apps in the market?
Harish Bisam: Quick Vitals leverages technology, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning algorithms to analyze Photoplethysmography (PPG) data through a smartphone or tablet camera. This technology extracts key health metrics such as heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, stress levels, and more, without needing any additional hardware or wearables.
Our key differentiators are
#1 Non-Invasive and Convenient: Users can access accurate health readings using only their smartphone’s camera, making it more convenient and accessible than health apps that require additional devices or sensors.
#2 Real-Time Monitoring: Quick Vitals provides real-time health data, which allows for immediate insights and actions based on the user’s current physical state.
#3 Wide Range of Health Metrics: Unlike many health apps that focus on a single or limited number of health parameters, Quick Vitals tracks multiple vital signs, giving a more holistic picture of the user’s health.
#4 AI-Powered Accuracy: By leveraging advanced deep learning models, Quick Vitals continuously improves its accuracy, becoming more reliable with increased usage data, distinguishing it from other apps that rely on static algorithms.
#5 Scalable Solution: Quick Vitals can be integrated into various industries, from healthcare providers to insurers, expanding its utility beyond personal health tracking and enabling corporate wellness, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring.
This combination of convenience, accuracy, and broad applicability sets Quick Vitals apart from other health apps in the market.
Prateek: Can you elaborate on the specific vital signs that Quick Vitals tracks and how users can benefit from the real-time data and personalized health insights it provides?
Harish Bisam: Quick Vitals measures several key vital signs using a smartphone or tablet camera, offering real-time health data and personalized insights that can greatly benefit users. Here’s a breakdown of the vital signs and the advantages users can gain. Some of these are the following:
a) Heart Rate (HR): Measures the number of heartbeats per minute.
- User Benefits: Monitoring heart rate helps users understand their cardiovascular health, manage stress levels, and track fitness progress. It also allows users to detect potential heart-related issues early.
b) Oxygen Saturation (SpO2): Measures the percentage of oxygen in the blood.
- User Benefits: SpO2 levels are crucial for understanding respiratory health. Monitoring it can help identify potential issues related to lung health, sleep apnea, or respiratory diseases like COPD and asthma.
c) Blood Pressure (BP): Measures the pressure of blood exerted on the walls of the arteries, which carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body.
- User Benefits: Most people don’t know they have high Blood Pressure – especially that there may be no noticeable warning signs and therefor Blood Pressure must be measured.
d) Stress Levels: Analyzes physiological data to assess stress levels.
- User Benefits: Users can monitor stress in real-time, which helps in taking proactive steps to manage stress through relaxation techniques, exercise, or seeking medical advice if necessary.
e) Heart Rate Variability (HRV): Measures the time variation between heartbeats.
- User Benefits: HRV is a strong indicator of the autonomic nervous system’s function and helps assess recovery, fitness, and overall well-being. Higher HRV typically indicates better cardiovascular health and resilience to stress.
f) Diabetes Risk: An indicator that assesses your likelihood of developing diabetes.
- User Benefits: Diabetes Risk is is crucial for early detection and intervention. HbA1c, or glycated haemoglobin, reflects average blood sugar levels over the past three months. This indicator is used to categorise diabetes risk into low, medium or high.
How do Users Benefit from Real-Time Data?
- Early Detection and Prevention: Continuous monitoring of vital signs helps users catch potential health issues early, allowing for preventive measures or medical intervention.
- Personalized Health Insights: The real-time data provides users with tailored insights based on their individual health trends. For example, sudden drops in SpO2 or spikes in heart rate can trigger personalized recommendations, such as relaxation exercises or reminders to consult a healthcare provider.
- Improved Wellness and Performance: Users can track their performance and recovery, especially during workouts or stressful situations. The insights enable them to optimize routines, whether for fitness or mental health.
- Remote Monitoring and Sharing: The data can be shared with healthcare providers or family members, offering peace of mind through continuous health tracking, especially for those with chronic conditions or the elderly.
Overall, Quick Vitals provides holistic health monitoring, enabling users to maintain better control over their physical and mental well-being through real-time, actionable insights.
Prateek: How does the integration with Doctors Plus enhance the user experience, and how do you envision this partnership improving healthcare accessibility and patient outcomes?
Harish Bisam: The integration with Doctors Plus enhances the user experience by offering a comprehensive, cloud-based healthcare solution that is accessible globally but tailored to Indian legislation. Key features such as patient-doctor connectivity, ePrescription management, and digital record-keeping are designed to streamline healthcare interactions, making it easier for patients to manage their medical needs and for healthcare providers to deliver personalized care.
Key Enhancements to User Experience
#1 Seamless Access: Doctors Plus applications like Doctors Plus Pro allow patients and doctors to access their medical data and services from anywhere in the world. This flexibility provides patients with the convenience of managing their health remotely, including setting appointments, reviewing prescriptions, and accessing medical records.
#2 Personalized and Secure Data Sharing: The platform enables secure sharing of medical data between patients, doctors, and pharmacists, ensuring privacy while allowing for improved treatment plans. Patients can choose who to share their data with, giving them control over their healthcare experience.
#3 Efficient Healthcare Management: Doctors can manage appointments, generate ePrescriptions, and access patient medical histories digitally, reducing the administrative burden and improving the accuracy and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Improving Healthcare Accessibility and Patient Outcomes
- Enhanced Accessibility: By leveraging cloud technology, Doctors Plus breaks geographical barriers, allowing patients in remote areas to connect with healthcare providers for consultations, prescriptions, and health management.
- Improved Patient Outcomes: The integration of digital records, demographic data, allergies, and medical history ensures that doctors have comprehensive information, enabling better diagnosis and treatment. The system’s ability to share prescriptions with pharmacists further ensures medication accuracy and convenience.
- Localized yet Global: While adhering to global standards, the platform is localized to meet Indian healthcare legislation, ensuring that patients in India receive compliant care while also benefiting from modern digital healthcare tools.
The partnership with Doctors Plus is expected to significantly improve healthcare accessibility by offering patients a more connected, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience. This integration also facilitates better patient outcomes through streamlined treatment processes and enhanced communication between patients, doctors, and pharmacists
Prateek: With Quick Vitals’ emphasis on empowering users and ensuring data security, how do you balance privacy concerns with the need for seamless health data sharing between patients and healthcare providers?
Harish Bisam: Quick Vitals balances privacy concerns and seamless health data sharing by leveraging it’s AI technology, ensuring that all personal data remains secure and within the user’s control. Here’s how this balance is achieved:
a) Data Privacy and Control: End-User Data Stays on Device. Quick Vitals operates on the user’s device, meaning that all real-time health data, history, and trends are processed locally. This significantly reduces the risk of exposing sensitive medical data to external parties.
Fully controlled access to Medical Data: Only the user has full access to their own medical data. No data is stored on any other servers anywhere in the world.
b) Edge AI and Offline Functionality: Runs on the Edge, Works Offline: The app is designed to work offline without requiring internet connectivity. This ensures users can monitor their health data without worrying about constant data transmission or potential breaches when they are not connected to a secure network.
c) GDPR/HIPAA Compliance: Quick Vitals operates within strict privacy regulations (such as GDPR and HIPAA), ensuring that even when data is shared with healthcare providers, it remains protected and compliant with international data privacy standards.
d) Optional Data Sharing with Healthcare Providers: Data Ownership and Control: Users have full ownership of their data and can decide when and how it is shared. For seamless sharing with healthcare providers, the data can be stored on a secure cloud (approved by the customer) without compromising the user’s control over their personal health information.
e) Patient-Provider Collaboration: By allowing users to share data selectively with healthcare providers through secure channels, Quick Vitals ensures seamless collaboration while prioritizing the user’s right to privacy.
This approach strikes a balance between user empowerment through data ownership and seamless sharing when required, all while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance
Prateek: What future innovations or additional health metrics can users expect from Quick Vitals, and how do you plan to scale the platform to reach a global audience?
Harish Bisam: In the next three years, Quick Vitals will introduce several key innovations that expand its ability to monitor health through non-invasive means. The future roadmap includes:
Blood-less Blood Tests:
The platform will expand to measure a wide range of biomarkers, including:
- Red and white blood cells
- Hemoglobin and Hematocrit
- Platelets
- Lipids, Glucose, Creatinine
- Electrolytes like Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium
- hsCRP (C-reactive protein), Albumin, Globulin, Neutrophil count
- Detection of health markers related to conditions such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C
These bloodless tests will offer users the ability to monitor critical health parameters without traditional lab work, making health checks more accessible and immediate.
Dynamic Biomarkers:
Future health metrics will also include dynamic biomarker tracking, such as:
- Atrial fibrillation detection
- Cardiac output
- Fatigue and exhaustion scores
- Comprehensive cardio score
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