Diagnostic software: Helping patients better understand their condition
Wellaho is an FDA approved software application that a doctor can prescribe to manage a chronic disease such as cancer. Watch this video as HealthMaker Naser Partovi, the founder and CEO of Wellaho, describes how this tool is meant to help patients.
Transcript
Wellaho is a chronic disease management software. It's an application that is--
to the best of my knowledge, it's the only FDA-approved doctor-prescribed app, that when somebody gets diagnosed
with a new chronic condition, whether it's cancer, or diabetes, or heart failure, they get prescribed this application.
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Like everybody else, when we were first told that she has cancer, we went to Dr. Google. And that's a very frustrating education
because you get 1 million hits, and as an uneducated-- medically uneducated person, you're trying to figure out, what's stage one cancer?
What's-- versus stage two cancer? What does it mean if I have lymph nodes clear? And so on and so forth.
And you get very contradictory information, which is not personalized for your condition. One thing I knew through my experience
is that there is a lot of good content out there. You just have to search and find it. And that's the frustrating part. So we take that frustration out by curating
what's already out there. A lot of patients really don't know the basics about care management for their disease.
So a lot of the frustration on the part of patients is because of lack of knowledge.
So the more informed the patients or their caregivers are, the better they will be able to take care of themselves
and the better decisions they will make. There are tools that are really good tools, but they are not broad-based application
for all the chronic conditions. For example, there is a tool called WellDoc, which is very good tool for diabetes management.
But they don't have diagnostic tools, and they don't have all the elements. Our tool is the only one I with FDA approval
that applies to all the chronic conditions. Patients need to update their status on a daily basis in our system.
And we ask them to invest one minute a day to update their health status.
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