A man with tuberculosis in an isolation room at the Doctors Without Borders’ Kutupalong clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Dive Brief: Researchers have used a smartphone app to assess cough frequency in people with tuberculosis (TB) and other respiratory diseases, suggesting the technology can enable remote monitoring. Writing in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease , the researchers describe the use of the Hyfe Research cough tracking app to monitor 565 respiratory disease patients. The study showed patients with TB coughed more than people with other respiratory diseases and experienced distinct responses to treatment. If validated in further studies, the work could support use of the digital biomarker to stop overtreatment of TB and improve disease detection. Dive Insight: Hyfe’s CoughPro app uses algorithms to determine whether sounds picked up by smartphone microphones are coughs. Because many people are next to their smartphone all day, the app can show how the frequency of cough changes over time and facilitate remote, round-the-clock data collection using existing hardware. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco worked with collaborators in Uganda, South Africa, the Philippines, Vietnam and India to assess the use of the technology in the monitoring of […]
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