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Uroflow Tracings an app to monitor your urine flow rates no hardware...just an app
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jbrohan
Nov 22, 2017, 11:47:22 AM11/22/17
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The app “Uroflow Tracings” tackles two Urological Problems.
no pictures...go to https://uroflowtracings.com
In general the Uroflow Tracings app moves a Doctor's Office medical test out to the home.
Laborie Uroflowmeter. The funnel may be set up to collect urine from standing or sitting position af men, women and children. Results on a nearby computer.
Versus...
Our app uses the sound of the urine stream hitting the water in a toilet (or a measuring cup) and calculates the tracing from this sound. Results on the phone and the web (very private)
There are several results from this move from the office to the home.
The test is cheaper and the results are likely to be managed using TeleMedicine
The patient can test himself and consider his own progress, putting him in charge of his disease.
The test can be done more frequently, offering a better view of the change over time of a chronic disease.
There are criticisms that the office test is not representative of the usual performance as the man is in a strange environment.
We are looking at two situations where it can be used.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, a chronic disease of older men, where the prostate gland grows and gets harder with age restricting the outflow of urine from the bladder. The most visible symptoms of this disease are slow urination, and getting up at night to pee. The disease is treated by diet and exercise, herbal remedies, pharmaceutical products and eventually surgery.
In this application the app would be recommended by a family physician and monitored by him on six-monthly intervals, probably by telemedicine (yielding $10 per patient per year to us). A specialist Urologist might recommend the app to new patients to monitor themselves for three days before he sees them. This is to have a more complete view of the patient’s problem at the first visit.
Children with dysfunctional voiding are often treated using biofeedback. Here the child comes to the clinic once a week or once a month and performs a uroflowmetry test, peeing into the uroflowmeter which measures the flow rate, duration and voided volume. The doctor or technician evaluates and encourages the child and then they come back next time. Obviously things would go quicker and better if the feedback loop was more frequent, and the app may allow the monitoring to be done at home, with the mother providing the encouragement. The doctor would oversee the process by phone using telemedicine.At current rates this would yield $5 per month per kid.
no pictures...go to https://uroflowtracings.com
In general the Uroflow Tracings app moves a Doctor's Office medical test out to the home.
Laborie Uroflowmeter. The funnel may be set up to collect urine from standing or sitting position af men, women and children. Results on a nearby computer.
Versus...
Our app uses the sound of the urine stream hitting the water in a toilet (or a measuring cup) and calculates the tracing from this sound. Results on the phone and the web (very private)
There are several results from this move from the office to the home.
The test is cheaper and the results are likely to be managed using TeleMedicine
The patient can test himself and consider his own progress, putting him in charge of his disease.
The test can be done more frequently, offering a better view of the change over time of a chronic disease.
There are criticisms that the office test is not representative of the usual performance as the man is in a strange environment.
We are looking at two situations where it can be used.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, a chronic disease of older men, where the prostate gland grows and gets harder with age restricting the outflow of urine from the bladder. The most visible symptoms of this disease are slow urination, and getting up at night to pee. The disease is treated by diet and exercise, herbal remedies, pharmaceutical products and eventually surgery.
In this application the app would be recommended by a family physician and monitored by him on six-monthly intervals, probably by telemedicine (yielding $10 per patient per year to us). A specialist Urologist might recommend the app to new patients to monitor themselves for three days before he sees them. This is to have a more complete view of the patient’s problem at the first visit.
Children with dysfunctional voiding are often treated using biofeedback. Here the child comes to the clinic once a week or once a month and performs a uroflowmetry test, peeing into the uroflowmeter which measures the flow rate, duration and voided volume. The doctor or technician evaluates and encourages the child and then they come back next time. Obviously things would go quicker and better if the feedback loop was more frequent, and the app may allow the monitoring to be done at home, with the mother providing the encouragement. The doctor would oversee the process by phone using telemedicine.At current rates this would yield $5 per month per kid.
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