Made in Malaysia, for Malaysia
Vytae reads your glucose meter, your blood pressure meter and your cholesterol analyser, keeps the readings on your phone, and explains every one against the Malaysian guideline it comes from — named, dated, and there for you to read.
Blood pressure
live from the meterNot hypertension, but above optimal. Diet, activity and salt matter here.
What it reads
Vytae talks to the meters people in Malaysia can actually buy. You can also type a reading in by hand — from any meter, or from a clinic’s printout.
Blood pressure
Measure as you normally would. The reading arrives in the app with the movement the meter detected during the test, so you know whether to trust it. Start a single or a triple test from the phone.
Below 90/60 is flagged separately as low. The app also runs the standing test for a drop on getting up: rest 5 minutes, then stand, with readings at 1 and 3 minutes.
Blood glucose
Hold the phone against the meter and its stored readings come across — no cable, no account with the meter’s maker, nothing typed twice.
Fasting bands. Above 5.6 mmol/L fasting, Malaysian guidance asks for a laboratory test; 7.0 is the level at which diabetes is diagnosed — in the lab, not at a counter.
Cholesterol
A finger-prick profile — total cholesterol, triglycerides and HDL — lands in the app the moment the analyser finishes, with LDL, non-HDL and the ratios worked out for you.
Total cholesterol above 5.2 mmol/L is raised. The app also takes a ten-year heart risk from the full profile, using the score the Malaysian lipid guideline uses.
Medication reminders from the schedule your clinic sends you or shows you as a QR code. Screening reminders that follow the Malaysian schedule. A ten-year cardiovascular risk estimate from the Framingham equation — a population estimate applied to one person, derived in an American cohort, which the app says plainly rather than hiding. Results from a pharmacy check — cholesterol, glucose, HbA1c and uric acid — sent to you and kept only if you say so. And everything exportable, because your readings are yours.
Where the numbers come from
The app carries its own reference list, and Settings → Sources and reasoning shows the lot, with what each one is used for.
27
sources named in the app
6
Malaysian clinical practice guidelines
3
devices read without typing
0
analytics or tracking libraries
Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2018.
The blood pressure bands, and judging blood pressure on repeated readings rather than one.
Ministry of Health Malaysia, December 2020. MOH/P/PAK/447.20(GU)-e.
Screening from age 30, the finger-prick glucose levels that need a laboratory test, the diabetes and prediabetes levels, and the rule that finger-prick HbA1c cannot diagnose diabetes.
National Heart Association of Malaysia, Ministry of Health Malaysia and Academy of Medicine Malaysia, 2023. e-ISBN 978-967-11794-7-5.
The cholesterol and triglyceride levels, LDL and non-HDL targets by heart risk, the heart risk groups, and when LDL can be calculated.
Malaysian Health Technology Assessment Section (MaHTAS), Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2021.
The uric acid levels, and the advice that a high level alone is not gout.
Medical Development Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2022. MOH/P/PAK/465.21(BP)-e.
Marking clinic and pharmacy results as screening results, kept apart from laboratory results.
Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2023.
When cervical screening is due.
Some things in the app rest on our own work rather than on published papers: how Vytae reads the GlucoNavii NFC over NFC, which we worked out ourselves and which the meter’s maker has not published, and how it checks the pressure recordings the INNOMED M7 streams. Your meter’s own screen is always the final word.
Pressure recordings from the INNOMED M7 blood pressure meter — The movement check, which the meter does not send over Bluetooth.
GlucoNavii display comparisons — Showing mmol/L exactly as the meter does, so the two never disagree.
The bands on this page come from Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Hypertension, 5th edition — Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2018., Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, 6th edition — Ministry of Health Malaysia, December 2020. MOH/P/PAK/447.20(GU)-e., Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Dyslipidaemia, 6th edition — National Heart Association of Malaysia, Ministry of Health Malaysia and Academy of Medicine Malaysia, 2023. e-ISBN 978-967-11794-7-5. and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Gout, 2nd edition — Malaysian Health Technology Assessment Section (MaHTAS), Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2021..
What we do with your readings
Readings are stored on your device. Copying them to our server is a separate switch, off until you turn it on — so a new phone does not have to mean starting again.
We do not measure how you use the app, and no third party receives your health data. The server runs in Singapore, and the privacy notice says so because it has to be true.
The home screen carries offers. Everyone sees the same ones: nothing you measure, and nothing about your health, is used to pick them.
Delete your account in the app, or from this website, and the readings we hold go with it.
The full notice, in English and Bahasa Malaysia, is at /privacy. Deleting your account: /delete-account.
Getting the app
Invited testers install it from Play today. Open testing follows once the first pharmacies are running checks at their counters — we would rather fix things with twenty people watching than two thousand.
You will need an Android phone with NFC for the GlucoNavii NFC glucose meter, or Bluetooth for the INNOMED M7 blood pressure meter and the SD LipidoCare analyser. Readings from any other meter can be typed in. An iPhone version is not out yet.
