The team led by Professor Gervaix at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) sought to develop a device capable of automatically identifying lung and heart auscultation signs. This innovative tool would rely on artificial intelligence algorithms for the automatic analysis of sounds.
A roundtable discussion was held during the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) 2018, bringing together organizations working on similar projects. This session facilitated experience-sharing and laid the groundwork for the development of the HUG project.
The Pneumoscope was showcased at the GHF Innovation Village in 2020, and in 2022, it was awarded the Best Innovation Trophy at the forum.
Initially designed for healthcare providers in resource-limited settings, the Pneumoscope is now being considered for broader applications, including in high-resource countries. It has the potential to support diagnostics in settings with minimally trained personnel and may also enable asthmatic patients to better evaluate the severity of their asthma attacks before consulting their physician.
The project, now officially branded as Pneumoscope, continues to advance and broaden its scope.
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