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Another voice app to detect Covid-19

Israel’s Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering has teamed up with Milan University and Cambridge University to build the Afeka app. It compares a few sentences and coughs with templates for positive and negative coronavirus patients to identify infected … Continue reading

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AstraZeneca pilots Israeli heart disease detection AI

AstraZeneca and the Bellvitge University Hospital in Spain are launching the first pilot program of the HearO™ app developed by Israel’s  Cordio Medical (see here previously) which can detect heart disease when the patient speaks on a smartphone. https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/634340933/astrazeneca-bellvitge-university-hospital-begin-pilot-of-cordio-medical-s-app-that-monitors-heart-failure-by-voice

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Risk of heart failure detected

The HearO app from Israel’s Cordio Medical (see here previously) achieved an 82% success rate in a study of 180 patients at 10 Israeli clinics. The app detected Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) an average of 18 days before it occurred, … Continue reading

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Monitoring high blood pressure in the voice

Israel’s Vocalis (reported here previously) has partnered with the Mayo Clinic to detect and monitor pulmonary hypertension (PH) from analyzing a person’s voice. Initially, they will identify PH vocal biomarkers indicating an increase in blood pressure within the arteries of … Continue reading

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Early stroke detection

The Scan&Sound app developed by students at Israel’s Technion Institute uses AI to analyze subtle changes in a potential stroke victim’s voice and facial expressions. Scan&Sound won 2nd place at John Hopkins University MedHacks in the category “Personalized Medicine Using … Continue reading

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Join a voice COVID-19 test project

Here is your opportunity to help develop a new test for coronavirus like the one that was reported here last week. This one, called Corona Voice Detect,  is being developed by Israel’s Voca.ai (reported here previously) in partnership with Carnegie … Continue reading

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Voice monitoring to diagnose brain disease

IBM Israel researchers are working on a project to detect brain diseases such as dementia, much earlier. It involves monitoring the patient’s voice remotely and detecting changes, so that activities and medication could slow down the advance of the disease. … Continue reading

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New technology at CES 2023

Of 23 Israeli startups at this year’s CES Las Vegas, these 5 are new. Cardiokol detects heart problems from speech; Eye-Minders tracks eye movements on VR devices; Polyn makes chips for listening devices; Radix manages Android TV sets; SparX Augmented … Continue reading

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Fighting fire with technology

TeleFire is Israel’s largest manufacturer of fire safety systems. It provides the hardware and software needed to help prevent, detect, and extinguish fires. It enables fast building evacuation with voice, horns, and firefighter support. It features fire suppression, smoke management … Continue reading

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Breakthrough app warns of heart failure

Israel’s Cordio Medical (see here previously) has been granted breakthrough device designation by the US FDA for its HearO smartphone app that gives early warning of congestive heart failure by detecting subtle changes in voice tone. It could save millions … Continue reading

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