Australian Health Startup Builds App That Helps People With Dementia
PainChek, an Australian-based health startup, has built an app to help people with dementia assess and score their pain levels. People with dementia have communication difficulties. While it s easy for regular people to tell someone about their pain, it s never easy for those who can t report their sufferings.
As noted from CNN, the company believes that their AI program has a staggering 90% accuracy in detecting pain. Before rolling out the app, PainChek has done over 180,000 pain assessments on over 66,000 people worldwide.
The project started way back in 2012 when a team of scientists from Curtin University in Western Australia dreamed of a better alternative to subjective paper-based evaluations.