Smartphone-based point-of-care anemia screening in rural Bihar in India

Verena Haggenmüller; Lisa Bogler; Ann-Charline Weber; Abhijeet Kumar; Till Bärnighausen; Ina Danquah; Sebastian Vollmer

doi:10.1038/s43856-023-00267-z

Communications Medicine (Mar 2023)

Smartphone-based point-of-care anemia screening in rural Bihar in India

Verena Haggenmüller,
Lisa Bogler,
Ann-Charline Weber,
Abhijeet Kumar,
Till Bärnighausen,
Ina Danquah,
Sebastian Vollmer

Affiliations

Verena Haggenmüller: Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital
Lisa Bogler: Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Goettingen
Ann-Charline Weber: Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Goettingen
Abhijeet Kumar: Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Goettingen
Till Bärnighausen: Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital
Ina Danquah: Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital
Sebastian Vollmer: Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Goettingen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00267-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Haggenmüller et al. evaluate the performance of a smartphone app for non-invasive hemoglobin estimation that was developed in the USA in rural India. Performance improved when the app was retrained on the data collected in India.

Published in Communications Medicine

ISSN: 2730-664X (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsmed/

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