Clinical decision support systems maker Avia Health Informatics PLC (LON:AVIA) has developed its Odyssey SelfAssess product into an application for smartphones.
The products Avia sells under the Odyssey brand promise to revolutionise the way people receive health advice.
They can be used for self-assessment on a touch screen device, or accessed via the internet by clinicians working over the telephone or directly with the patient.
Odyssey SelfAssess uses the extensive and proven clinical content developed for clinician use, and adapts it to allow patients to assess their own symptoms prior to consultation with clinical services.
Avia's wholly owned subsidiary Plain Healthcare Ltd, which handles development of the Odyssey product range, has now created an application to offer Odyssey SelfAssess on Windows 7 and Android smartphones. This is also due to be expanded to cover BlackBerry and iPhone platforms.
The Odyssey SelfAssess application can be hosted using cloud-based computing and is delivered via 3G and broadband.
Initially it will be offered to the occupational health market and is expected to be used in particular for absence management and employee health and wellbeing.
This means that Odyssey SelfAssess will soon be available to anyone with a smartphone or web access to carry out self-assessment of their own condition or to assess a third party's illness or injury.
Chairman Barry Giddings said: “The development of Odyssey applications for smartphones is an exciting development for the group as it makes the software even more accessible and means we can now offer Odyssey to corporations looking for solutions for occupational health and absence management. The potential for mobile deployment also opens up opportunities in other new markets around the world."