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Background. Mobile Health (mHealth) is a hot research and development topic due to massive spread of smartphones and their high technical performance. Mobile apps for health vary in their functions, from dietary assistance and planning physical activities to “take a drug” reminding and others.
Aim: Assessing the capabilities of existing mobile apps for collecting personal medical data (lab results, radiography scans etc.).
Materials and methods. We performed a systematic search and analysis of...

Auscultation is a classic method of examining patients with respiratory and cardiovascular pathologies. Auscultation is a subjective method, its diagnostic accuracy is highly dependent on the doctor’s experience. Electronic stethoscopes can increase the volume of audio recordings, eliminate noise, and store and transmit sound to a computer or smartphone. Wavelet transform, Butterworth filter, low and high pass filters are used to filter the resulting audio recordings. Machine learning methods, w...

Hypertension is a complex cardiovascular condition, defined as an abnormally high blood pressure. Such long-term and consistent increase in blood pressure could result in coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney damage and other serious debilitating conditions. Complication rate from hypertension depends on how well you can predict and prevent those complications, considering individual patient’s risks. Several mathematical models and computer algorithms that are currently used for these purposes ...