Revolutionising digital healthcare through AI tech

Developing a clinically proven AI-powered vital signs application for smartphone users

The requirement

When the revolutionary benefits of Instant video solution Gaze became clear to SaaS entrepreneur Tim Mercer, his passion for innovation and long-standing relationship with IDS acted as the catalysts for a new HealthTech project.

The vision was an app that could utilise artificial intelligence to interpret a number of automatic nervous system measures and detect a patient’s four vital signs: oxygen saturation, respiration rate, heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV). All of this, using only their smartphone.

The project at-a-glance

Detects patients’ four vital signs using only a smartphone
App now clinically proven with 90% accuracy
Beta-testing underway with additional health metrics including blood pressure
Addresses globally mounting healthcare pressures
Leverages demand for greater digital health empowerment

Our solution

Developed by a collaborative team of experts, including software developers, UX specialists, security professionals, systems integrators, business analysts, and marketers, MyVitals offers a user-friendly and clinically accurate digital healthcare solution.

By utilising the power of artificial intelligence, MyVitals can detect four vital signs—temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood oxygen saturation—using only a smartphone. This groundbreaking technology has undergone rigorous clinical testing and has demonstrated a remarkable 90% accuracy rate. Currently in beta-testing, the app is expanding its capabilities to include additional health metrics such as blood pressure.

MyVitals is not only a technological marvel but also a timely response to the growing global healthcare challenges. By empowering patients to take control of their health through digital tools, MyVitals addresses the increasing demand for accessible and efficient healthcare solutions. This innovative application has the potential to alleviate the burden on healthcare systems and improve patient outcomes worldwide.

The results

MyVitals applies a next-generation combination of signal processing and AI-powered technologies, combined with a proprietary mathematical back end, to analyse a video taken from the upper cheek region of the face.

Utilising only the camera of any smartphone to pick up a remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signal, the app can detect, extract and analyse the user’s vital signs in less than two minutes – sometimes in as little as 10 seconds – with medical-grade accuracy.

By applying motion compensation and illumination normalisation – coupled with an interface designed for utmost ease of use – MyVitals can be utilised by any individual, for maximum accessibility. The technology runs on the smartphone itself with no internet connection needed.

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With a globally ageing population, healthcare pressures are mounting on a truly worldwide scale – not least because a shortfall of 15 million doctors and nurses is being predicted by 2030." Digital health apps have been cited as one of the most important tools available to help tackle increasingly stretched, inefficient and under-resourced health institutions, yet 85% are said to not meet minimum safety standards. Given 45.04% of the global population owns a smartphone – including a reported 58.71 million people in the UK – the lack of true disruption within this space is staggering. The most exciting thing about MyVitals though, is that the use cases are varied – if not limitless. We’ve been overwhelmed by interested parties in sectors ranging from insurance to corporate wellness, and driving safety to sports and fitness, to name just a few.

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Tim Mercer

Founder, MyVitals