August 28, 2014
At Gizmodo, Robert Sorokanich highlights a new mobile app with the potential to save lives:
Infant jaundice, where a baby’s liver can’t remove blood toxins, is potentially fatal. Doctors recognize it as an unusual yellow hue in a baby’s skin and eyes, but what if you’re a nervous parent far from a pediatrician? This experimental app turns your phone’s camera into a doctor’s trained eye.
BiliCam’s premise is simple: Just lay the printed color key on your baby’s belly and snap a photo. The app sends the photo’s data to the cloud, where an algorithm measures the difference between the baby’s skin tone and the color chart to instantly send an estimated bilirubin level to your phone.