This App Can Predict When Your Kid Has Epileptic Seizures

A Microsoft employee named Roberto D’Angelo has teamed up with his colleagues to develop an app which can help parents predict immediately when their children have a seizure.

They refer to their project as MirrorHR - Epilepsy Research Kit for Kids. The project has just won the Grand Prize of the Microsoft Hackathon 2019 - an annual global event that is conducted by The Garage.

In terms of The Garage, this Microsoft program aims to encourage the company’s employees to develop their own favorite projects. The subject D’Angelo applied his project MirrorHR onto was Mario, his 8-YO son. Since the age of 3, the boy has fought with serious seizures.

That’s why his parents have decided to use a mobile application that can connect with a wearable device to send instant alerts whenever Mario shows any anomalous sign concerning epileptic seizures. And therefore, they don’t need to monitor their kid all day anymore.

The biggest advantage of this app is to ease the concern that a sudden seizure may cause sudden unexpected death in epilepsy or SUDEP. The researchers have inked pact with together during nearly three months to complete the end-to-end proof of concept (PoC).

With the app, parents can even realize the seizure before it happens. And hence, they can rapidly take actions in time, for example, preventing their kid from swallowing vomit.

In other words, the parents can always keep track of the epileptic seizures and don’t need to take their kid to the hospital as before.

All of the daily video logs and biometric data are kept in the Microsoft FHIR Server. Also, state-of-the-art techniques including data visualization and machine learning contribute to providing easy-to-understand insights and visuals for both doctors and parents via Power BI tools.