Healthy Networks ^Company

Lung Passport is a digital stethoscope paired to a mobile app that tells you whether you have lung problems and what their most likely cause is. It lets you track the condition over time and be alerted when a flare up is emerging. The assessment is done by a neural network that correlates recorded lung sounds with specific types of abnormal sounds (e.g. crackles, wheezes and rhonchi) in seconds. With a disease-specific questionnaire tailored to the user's profile Lung Passport can accurately identify four most common lower respiratory disorders: pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma and COPD - or absence thereof. The app becomes a hospital exam room on the go, addressing the #1 reason for primary care visits - respiratory diseases. Lung Passport will allow parents to distinguish common cold from pneumonia or bronchitis when their child is coughing - no need to take her to ER in the middle of the night. They have already reached 93% accuracy in detecting 4 types of sounds (including those typical for pneumonia). The system is currently undergoing clinical trials with first results available by the middle of March.