Revolution in East Africa’s Health Services
Medical experts in Tanzania have just built a Health Intelligent Quotient Application which uses artificial intelligence to run personal diagnosis as accurately as they come.
The personalized health application which can be downloaded from Google Play and Apple Stores records all individual information, physical profile, mental capabilities and health status, keeping the important records in its AI brain for periodical references.
Invented by Dr Ahmed Raza of Roshan Polyclinic in Arusha, the special app, which is both Intelligent and inclusive, addresses the long existing shortcomings among Tanzanians who normally never take the trouble of undergoing personal medical check-ups.
“Now each and person in Tanzania or East Africa can perform personal health diagnosis at the comfort of his or her own home, office or wherever they happen to be, in fact, more accurately and essentially cheaper,” explained the medical experts, during the application launch at the Arusha Technical College.
Dr Raza explains that all the medical data is fed into the app, kept securely and when one attends hospitals for treatment, physicians simply retrieve all the important information from the app storage, by permission from the holder.
But even before attending medical services, the app system will ask questions on lifestyle and offer advice on diet, exercise medication, therefore helping to solve health problems before they occur.
“An Artificial Intelligence brain will process the information and give daily advice as requested. It is some form of a personalized AI Doctor, who knows everything about your wellbeing,” said the Arusha-based medical scientist.
“The Health IQ system will not replace your doctor but make things simple and actually cut down the trips to the medics, solve the problem of dangerous self-medication and assist the physicians to get accurate data about their patients,” Raza maintained.
For other observers, the application will also address the problem of patients’ inability to explain their maladies, even when the person’s condition is extremely serious that they are unable to speak, doctors can retrieve their personal data, records and other information from the app.
Essentially is makes the patient have full information at hand while attending medical attention or check-ups
On the other hand, with mental health becoming the biggest challenge, arising from or causing fluctuating moods among most individuals, the app is becoming handy to address the problem at early stages.
The app asks questions and carries on diagnosis; makes an illustrative graph for better explanation and therefore eliminates the case of too late intervention, helping people to get early treatments.
Haroun Banana, the President of Arusha Technical College Students Government appreciated the fact that the application was launched by its inventors at the institution.
“The health IQ app should be part of training for the students taking biomedical engineering for them to learn how Artificial Intelligence plays an important role in medicine and the fact that it can also be associated with their learning,” said Banana.
