[PP.15.12] MEDICUS, A MOBILE-BASED, A PATIENT-CENTERED APPROACH TO THE TRACKING, PREDICTION, AND PREVENTION OF HYPERTENSION AND CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONS

Objective: Lifestyle choices are critical contributors to the onset of hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases (1, 2). However, patients and health practitioners are often confronted with the challenge of understanding and drawing meaningful conclusions from a large number of analysis reports such as blood tests, NGS data, etc. Design and method: Medicus is a healthcare platform that converts medical reports with their cryptic numbers and medical language into a visual experience with personalized easy-to-understand health insights and actionable recommendations. Medicus is powered by a Medical Reasoning Engine that uses AI to encode medical knowledge. Results: One of our primary focuses at Medicus is hypertension and the heart health. We’re tracking biomarker changes in response to users’ profile (sex, age, ethnic origin), lifestyle habits (alcohol, smoking, diet type, activity, BMI), used medication, genetic predisposition or existing condition. To date, we cover and track vitals including blood pressure, heart rate (HR), temperature, along with other serum biomarkers such as hematological variables, lipids, glucose, renal, and liver markers. Such detailed data allows Medicus to give the user a customized hypertension and cardiovascular health risk assessment while tracking users’ progression over time and linking it to lifestyle changes among others (3). In addition to cardiac markers, new biomarkers will be added and analyzed via our algorithms, including blood pressure, and HR related variables such as resting, high resting, target, recovery HR, and HR variability in a variety of user profiles including healthy users, athletes, and hypertension or cardiac patients. By presenting our innovative platform to researchers and health practitioners, we aim to establish two-way research collaborations to improve our product and contribute to advancing the research, clinical and medical fields. Researchers can benefit from compliant patients data to support their studies and understand more the factors that affect hypertension and related cardiovascular conditions. Conclusions: In conclusion, Medicus's goal is to change the way people understand and interact with their health by promoting the predict and prevent model (3). This personalized approach will significantly reduce the onset of conditions by focusing on measurable risk factors and driving positive behavioral change.