Start-up Biorithm brings heart diagnostics to your smartphone

Amrish Nair comes from a family of doctors. He would have become one too, if not for his propensity to goof around when he was at school. “I wasn’t particularly interested [in becoming a doctor]. I was drawn to other things. I’d seen how hard they work. At times when the whole family sat down and all the doctors were missing, we knew why.”

Instead, the 30-year-old now runs a startup, Biorithm, that has developed a system that helps doctors monitor a large number of patients’ heart rates, and catch irregularities in real time.

The heart rate monitor would utilise a patient’s mobile phone and feed the data to his doctor in real time. Currently, patients with monitoring devices return to the hospital periodically to download the data and a report is generated for the doctor. “Devices can collect the data. What we do is add a layer of analytics to the data,” he explains. “We can detect something within four seconds.”

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