🚨 No Needles, No Worries: India Just Launched a Blood Test That Scans Your Face

🔹 India’s first AI-powered blood test app just launched

🔹 No needles, no blood—just scan your face

🔹 Delivers 10+ vital health indicators in under 20 seconds

🔹 Already rolled out in a Hyderabad government hospital

🔹 Focused on fighting anaemia in mothers and children

🔹 Poised for national rollout in underserved areas

📍 Who: Developed by Harish Bisam, founder of Bisam Pharmaceuticals

🔍 What: An AI app called Quick Vitals that performs diagnostic checks—without drawing blood

🗓️ When: Launched in 2024, with pilot rollout at Niloufer Hospital, Hyderabad

🌍 Where: Currently in Hyderabad, expanding to Maharashtra and rural India

💡 Why: To combat anaemia, especially in pregnant women and children, and enable fast, scalable, non-invasive health screening

You're in a well-lit room. You open an app.

Your camera scans your face... and boom—within 20 seconds, you get:

📈 Blood Pressure

💓 Heart Rate

🧪 Haemoglobin Levels

🧘 Stress Indicators

💨 Respiration Rate

🩸 Oxygen Saturation

🍔 Cholesterol

🧠 Heart Rate Variability

All without even touching a needle. Wild, right?

That’s Quick Vitals in action.

Quick Vitals uses a tech called Photoplethysmography (PPG).

It’s not magic—it’s light.

💡 Here's the TL;DR version:

• Your camera flashes light onto your skin

• That light reflects back differently based on your blood flow

• AI algorithms decode the reflection

• You get real-time vitals—no lab required

According to WHO standards, even traditional blood tests show some variation. This app? It's well within the 7–10% variance range—that’s clinically solid. 📊✅

At Niloufer Hospital, the app is already being used to screen pregnant women for anaemia, a condition affecting 4 in 10 Indian mothers.

It’s fast. It’s accurate. It’s non-invasive.

It’s also expected to support programs like:

• 🧒 Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (Child Health)

• 👧 Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (Adolescent Health)

• 💉 National Non-Communicable Disease Programs

In India’s remote and tribal areas, getting basic health diagnostics is still a challenge. Quick Vitals is a potential game-changer.

⚙️ The app is:

• Affordable

• Offline-friendly

• Scalable for rural health centres

• Capable of supporting wearable PPG sensors for continuous monitoring in clinical settings

Excellent question. With AI in healthcare, privacy is non-negotiable.

Quick Vitals has built-in safeguards:

🔒 Multi-user logins for health professionals

🔐 Encrypted data storage

🛡️ Compliant with medical data regulations

Your face might be on camera—but your info stays locked down.

A clinical trial of 1,000 children under five is starting soon to compare this tech with traditional blood tests.

If successful, Quick Vitals could become part of India’s nationwide screening programs—especially in Ayushman Bharat and other primary healthcare systems.

Maybe the best doctor of tomorrow… is your phone. 📱✨

Here’s your Quick Vitals Playbook:

• ✅ Start conversations about AI in healthcare—especially in underserved areas

• ✅ Support non-invasive diagnostics in schools and community health programs

• ✅ Monitor your own vitals using AI apps (with proper medical guidance)

• ✅ Advocate for adoption of health tech in public health policies

• ✅ Share this innovation with healthcare workers or NGOs in your network

• ✅ Stay informed about clinical trials and results—especially if you're in public health or med-tech

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