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[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Speaking of medical apps, there's also urine analysis ..

 http://uchek.in

"uChek is a smartphone App to analyze and interpret urine using your 
phone's camera. It can detect up to 8-10 parameters (depending upon the 
strip used) and detect up to 25 diseases, based upon these parameters. 
Some of these parameters are levels of glucose, proteins, ketones, etc
and diseases like diabetes, urinary tract infection, pre-clampsia etc."

At <http://allthingsd.com/20130226> they report .. (Feb 26th 2013)

Testing urine can reveal diseases, pregnancy, drug usage, dehydration, diet 
problems and more. But urine tests are not terrifically accessible — 
companies like Siemens make proprietary urine dipsticks that are read only 
by their expensive proprietary machines.

Now Biosense Technologies have developed an iPhone app to make the process 
much more accessible. The aim of uChek is to make analyzing pee so simple 
that people around the world can do it at home to test and monitor their 
own health.

The uChek app works with any urine-test dipstick, with the familiar set of 
colored boxes that change to indicate levels of things like ketones and pH 
in the pee.

To use the app, you dip the stick in the pee and put it down next to a 
color mat, then take a picture of the two at certain time intervals. The 
point of the mat is to provide a reference color palette that can be 
compared to the stick in any light. 

Then the app locally analyzes what it sees, and displays the levels and the 
trends.

After Ingawale demoed this process on stage with a cup of pee, nobody was 
quite sure whether to shake his hand.

Biosense Technologies employs 10 people in Mumbai, and raised $500,000 from 
Insitor Fund and GSF India, Ingawale told me in an interview offstage.
He said he expects to launch uChek on March 25. The app will likely cost 
$0.99, and the mat will cost $20. An Android version is the next priority.
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Cheers,
Stephen