Mike Barlow*, myHealthPal LTD, Reading, United Kingdom Track: Business Presentation Topic: Participatory health care Presentation Type: Startup Pitch Submission Type: Single Presentation Building: Mermaid Room: Main Auditorium Date: 2013-09-23 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM Last modified: 2013-09-25

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myHealthPal is a healthcare initiative that was created to explore the use of everyday technologies to better manage long-term conditions and chronic illness. It has been created to allow people to manage their own condition or for someone else to manage it for them and makes use of touch screen devices such as the iPhone to perform condition related tests, to capture results and log other information automatically. However as there are potential technology gaps that can exist due to either a lack of availability to such devices they are continually exploring ways to overcome these gaps, one example of this is using myHealthPal with a compatible watch.

Whilst myHealthPal includes many periphery functions such as conditional based information, live chat, surveys, managing medication and being able to share information within a care circle. It’s ultimately about visualizing health in an easy to understand way to illustrate if medication is effective;

• When is it wearing off?
• How does exercise impact it?
• What difference does sleep make?
• Soon will also include diet to help understand how different food types interact with medication.

At the heart of myHealthPal is the timeline and the ability to automatically capture and log results & information from touch screen devices and 3rd party add-ons without someone having to manually key it in. This not only enables you to visualize medication effectiveness but also compare points in time to visualize change.

Underpinning the primary function are the myHealthPal CareCircles that enables users to create a support network of friends, family and medical professionals such as doctors who can see real-time how they are managing by viewing their timeline to review event types, which they are permitted to see. So they could see if medication is being acknowledged as taken, assessments that may have been performed, outputs from tests including videos of physical tests which have been captured from the screen output of smart phones & tablets and more.

This really is about empowering people and driving change, proving the means to self-support and for others to be involved and to create a real community.

The first condition myHealthPal is working on is Parkinson's and they expect to follow quickly with MS, COPD, Asthma & Diabetes and its believed the same approach adopted for Parkinson's will work for others and myHealthPal intend to work very closely with charities and organisations for each condition.

By working with charities they can quick reach established communities and its users, an example of this in action is myHealthPal is recognised and supported by the EPDA. The EPDA is the European Parkinson's Disease Association and acts as an umbrella company proving support to every Parkinson's charity and organisation throughout Europe and support between 2.5 – 3 million people with Parkinson's.

Many organisations and charities are also speaking with them and conversations have involved are major UK charities for Parkinson’s and also others in the US such as the Fox Foundation (MJFF) about including them in our DataDonate™ Programme.

I believe this can make a real difference and It would be great to work with people with the same beliefs.