Your Smartphone Knows If You're Sick, Outcomes Based Healthcare Reveals
Our smartphone are our trusty sidekicks. If they were people, they'd know too much about us—the foods we're craving, the trips we want to take, the people we like and don't like, the phobias we have, the trivia we're curious about, the books we've pretended to read. We tell our phones a lot about ourselves.
So it's a little spooky, yet fascinating, to learn that our smartphones also can tell if we're feeling ill or sad. That's what the OBH Sense360 smartphone app was designed to do. The product of a partnership between Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH), a company focused on defining and measuring health outcomes, and technology company SoftServe, Sense360 passively acquires data about a person's interactions with their phone. This information can be analyzed with machine learning algorithms to determine wellness behavioral patterns, because health and mood can impact how people interact with their phones.
So it's a little spooky, yet fascinating, to learn that our smartphones also can tell if we're feeling ill or sad. That's what the OBH Sense360 smartphone app was designed to do. The product of a partnership between Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH), a company focused on defining and measuring health outcomes, and technology company SoftServe, Sense360 passively acquires data about a person's interactions with their phone. This information can be analyzed with machine learning algorithms to determine wellness behavioral patterns, because health and mood can impact how people interact with their phones.