How many times have you referred to search engines to check symptoms of your sickness? And how many times you got (or thought you had got) the professional/competent answer to your question? No need to refer to any study proving that real doctors are still way more accurate than any symptom checker tools out in the web.

Considering both the people’s need for professional advice on healthcare and large internet connection and mobile devices usage in Armenia, Satenik Grigoryan came up with the idea of bringing those two into one tool: mobile app which connects patients with doctors. She proposed a mobile app which will have the database of initially pre-selected doctors.

By selecting health problems from a database, users of the mobile app will be asked several questions that doctors ordinarily ask during preliminary consultations. Based on the compiled database, the app will refer to a relevant specialist related to the health problem in question. This will help minimize attempts at self-diagnosis and self-healing, and balance the unchecked and incorrect information available on the internet.

The idea was co-designed during Social Innovation Camp on Healthcare back in July 2016, where designers, marketers, doctors and IT specialists worked in a team to prototype the idea. The team got the highest marks according to jury voting, got the chance to enter Kolba Lab’s incubator and received support from the European Union for prototyping the functional mobile app.

We have good news for users with Android smartphone, as the initial prototype of the app will be launched very soon for Android operation systems first. (Yeah, iOS users should have some more patience). So follow the News section to be the first one to have the download link of the app.

Have you ever used any medical mobile or web application? Let us know about your experience in the comments section below, and specify your preference in using such kind of tech tools.