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Lifelens - a mobile app from Harvard Business School student has come all over to combat malaria, and to prove better than rapid diagnostic test.

Malaria - not unknown to any, which is an infective disease, cause generally by protozoan parasite, which attack the red blood cells; the parasite is transmitted through anopheles mosquito, with it infectious bite, and the disease is marked by discontinuous and remittent fever.

Recently, a Harvard university student has come with a new mobile apps, for detection of this mosquito-borne infectious disease - MALARIA! 

Widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, viz. Africa, Asia etc., mortality rate of this dreaded disease is high, across the globe. Even though the spread of this disease has lessened - all due to global warming, it impends to expand it all again; but, to combat this disease, Cy Khormaee, a Harvard Business School student has come with his Smartphone, for early symptomatic diagnosis of malaria, without the need to go for rapid diagnostic test (RDT), where through with antigen-based stick, card/cassette test, malaria is ascertained - the colored lines show out for detection of plasmodial antigens.

The diagnostic precision of RDT is about 40% only, and physicians often go for costly medicines to treat people with symptoms of this disease, even though their RDT showed negative, on result. Cy Khormaee has made it easy for all, as now without the need to go for RDT, doctors can detect malaria easily and quickly though this device, for early treatment of people, to trim down death rate. 

Now, gone are the days we have to rely on RDT to ascertain malaria, as the wait time is high of RDT, than this mobile app - Lifelens, in Silverlight application development platform for Windows Phone 7; other with the software technology is microscopy lens, affixed to the windows phone. Blood drop of suspected patients with malarial symptoms, after pricking, is required to be smeared on the microscopy lens - and when the phone is turned on, the mobile application can be activated, for the process to start on.

The technology (Lifelens) facilitates for microscopic analysis of sample of blood smeared on the lens, of the Smartphone, and this makes it feasible for identification of malarial parasite in blood sample of the patient - and it is as simple as that, where malaria is detected in a zap.

This microscopic lens can be easily cleaned and sterilized for multiple usage, and multiple lenses can even be replaced to the same Smartphone, with the configured software, to continue with the application. With sheer determination of Cy Khormaee, it has come true of detection of malaria, with great precision through with this Smartphone, as advancement further with it will surely save time, money - and millions of lives, costlier than anything.

Let us hope to see more such come following Cy Khormaee and others, to bring in revolution in Healthcare sector. Stay tuned with MedicExchange for more on new technology innovations, and other stories from the Health IT sector.