Have you swallowed pills in recent weeks, just to get relief from the common cold, cough, body pain or may be a headache, without consulting your doctor? Well, such instances are common and people invariably don’t keep a tab of the date; not until the recurrence is more frequent and the pain unbearable.

If only one maintained a record of self-medication, wouldn’t it help the physician address the ailment more quickly? To deal with such issues and more, Bengaluru-based IT healthcare start-up mTatva has launched HealthPIE Mobile Nurse. This mobile app is being rolled out a year after the company announced the launch of its flagship B2B product – Health PIE (Patient Information and Empowerment System).

Baljit Singh, founder-promoter of mTatva, told BusinessLine that the company decided to develop an app from the patients’ side this time. “Our ultimate aim is to have the app under one umbrella,” he added. HealthPIE Mobile Nurse has been tested on the android platform, but not yet on iOS, the mTatva founder said.

Explaining the features of the app, he said, “The user can maintain a record of the medication taken (either self-medication or under medical advise), set reminders, access health information, and look up vital charts, apart from getting useful statistics and insights into health care.” The team has incorporated a feature that includes taking a picture of the medicine or syrup with the prescription, so that the picture pops up at the specified time and dosage.

“Medication errors can cause anxiety; with a view to avoid it, we have incorporated this feature,” he said, and pointed out that uploading a child’s growth chart (such as height and weight), recording intake of food, sleep etc, is also possible.

Though the app support is available only in English, mTatva plans to make it available in Hindi as well.

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