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FITTERFLY PARTNERS WITH GOOGLE CLOUD TO LAUNCH AN AI FOOD CAM FEATURE TO HELP PEOPLE WITH DIABETES
Fitterfly , a HealthTech company in India , has partnered with Google Cloud to launch its latest AI feature – Fitterfly Klik , which will enable people with diabetes and other NCDs ( Non-Communicable Diseases ) to track and analyse their meals effortlessly .
Traditional meal tracking methods – be it through manual journaling or entering in a text format in an app is cumbersome and discouraging for many . Fitterfly ’ s latest feature , Klik , changes all this by leveraging the power of Gemini 1.5 Flash on Google Cloud ’ s Vertex AI platform to transform meal tracking into a quick , enjoyable and insightful experience .
Using Klik is easy . Within the Fitterfly app , users can access Klik within the meal-tracking food diary by clicking on the camera icon . A user can Klik while having a meal or upload images from the picture gallery in one go in the evening . It will instantly provide feedback on that food item , its portion size and give detailed nutritional breakdowns like calorie count , macronutrient and micronutrient distribution . So , whether it ’ s a bowl of pasta , biryani or the regular thali , Klik can identify both Indian and international dishes on one ’ s plate .
Bikram Singh Bedi , Vice President and Country MD at Google Cloud India , said : “ Combined with Fitterfly ’ s dataset and Gemini ’ s multimodal capabilities , both teams collaborated to identify the right model to help bring this powerful idea to life in an extremely short duration . Leveraging Gemini Flash , Fiiterfly ’ s Kilk is able to deliver exceptional quality , an expansive context window , and cutting-edge multimodal capabilities which will be very helpful for their users .”
Fitterfly Klik uses state-of-the-art AI computer vision paired with the Fitterfly Nutrition Database , comprising 37,000 + Indian foods , to recognise , analyse and break down food .
HDR UK CELEBRATED FOR CHAMPIONING TECHNICAL CAREERS IN HEALTH DATA SCIENCE
In 2022 Health Data Research UK ( HDR UK ) joined the Technician Commitment , a nationwide initiative setup to recognise and support the essential role of technicians across universities and research institutions . A year later , HDR UK launched it ’ s first 24-month action plan , outlining our strategies to support this pledge and address the challenges affecting technical staff in health data research .
This progress was recently recognised with a milestone submission award at the Technician Commitment signatory event in Wales . The award highlights HDR UK ’ s commitment to ensuring visibility , recognition , career development and sustainability of technical skills and roles across the health data science sector .
Emily Jefferson , Chief Technology Officer at HDR UK and co-lead of the Institute ’ s Technician Commitment action plan ( along with Rosie ) said : “ This is great recognition at the midpoint of our action plan . We are proud to be a signatory of the Technician Commitment and look forward to continuing our pledge to support and empower technologists across the health data research sector . Their work and professional development is integral to our mission at HDR UK , to unlock the power of largescale data to transform public health .”
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