Australian well being professionals have launched an app aimed toward simplifying the pathway to diagnosing ladies’s well being points.Â
Charli Well being makes use of AI, telehealth and self-logged knowledge to select up on situations like endometriosis.
The app is meant to assist individuals like Bianca Zouppas, who has suffered debilitating interval ache for greater than half her life.
“I might get extreme cramping, I could not train correctly,” Zouppas mentioned.
“I might really feel like my abdomen was having contractions.”
Her situation was solely identified when she struggled to fall pregnant.Â
“That they found that they may see possibly one thing shadowing that appeared like endometriosis,” Zouppas mentioned.
The situation impacts many ladies, ladies and folks born with a uterus however takes almost six years to diagnose.
Charli Well being is utilizing AI to reply questions, monitor reproductive cycles and flag when a person ought to search medical consideration for not solely potential endometriosis however every kind of girls’s well being points.
“This opens up the door for preteens all through to perimenopause,” Charli Well being co-creator Samantha Costa mentioned.
“Hopefully what is going to occur now’s ladies will probably be extra conscious there may be really an issue,” Endometriosis Australia affiliate professor Anusch Yazdani mentioned.
“Endometriosis is a situation the place the liner that’s just like the within of the uterus or endometrium grows exterior of the uterus,” Costa mentioned.
Charli Well being is free to make use of for the primary three months.
“I want it was round after I was having all that ache,” Zouppas mentioned.
