Nearly 25 per cent of the world’s population is anaemic. Now researchers have created a Smartphone app that can detect the condition by using a photo.
Hema App could mean diagnosing and monitoring the blood disorder without a finger poke or blood draw.
“This is a way for anyone to screen themselves for anaemia and all they have to do is download an app,” said Wilbur Lam, a bioengineer and pediatric haematologist at Georgia Tech and Emory University in Atlanta, who led the new research. “It doesn’t require any blood at all.”
