Phone app successfully predicts heart failure through speech on average 18 days before incident

Your smartphone, your personal medical doctor!

"Speech-processing startup Cordio Medical announced that its HearO app successfully predicted 82 percent of first congestive heart failure cases in patients that took part in a study, on average 18 days before the incident occurred.

The study collected 460,000 voice samples from 180 patients across 10 medical centers in Israel. The participants used the HearO app at home and sent a voice sample once a day in Hebrew, Arabic or Russian.

The company reported an 82% success rate, noting that a third of the 18% misdiagnosis rate was related to sounds from other respiratory diseases. ..."

Phone app successfully predicts heart failure through speech - ISRAEL21c From a person’s voice, HearO app can detect fluid accumulation in the lungs that that could lead to heart failure.