Healthcast, a Luxembourg eHealth startup, will present its solution to the Zika crisis at the Health 2.0 conference in Barcelona on 12th May. Healthcast empowers individuals to give best-practice care at home when a loved one is ill. It helps end-users track the important symptoms so they have an accurate picture of their condition. End-users are also given individualized care plans which make it easy to manage the care. It can even help them to avoid getting sick in the first place, by keeping them informed on the actual threat level. Anonymized summaries of the care records are aggregated to track disease spread at the communal level, capturing data which is invisible to traditional public health systems. This is especially useful for diseases like Zika, which challenges both families and public health institutes alike.
Health 2.0 is the annual gathering of digital health champions. Now in its seventh year, the conference features over 120 speakers and over 600 attendees from around the world. Health 2.0 refers to the use of mobile, cloud, Saas, and device technologies to create innovative data-driven solutions to individual and societal health problems.
"Sometimes a micro approach is the best solution to a macro problem," says Dr. Lawyer, one of Healthcast's founders. "Helping individuals solve their needs builds a collective intelligence which solves the communal need." Zika is so hard to track because people who have it often do not think they need to go to the doctor. The primary symptoms typically only last 2-3 days, and are mild. It is impossible to track the disease at the communal level without a way to gather information on the sub-clinical cases.
Healthcast is preparing a similar service for Europe, where colds and flu are the most common diseases. The launch date is set for August, when back-to-school starts the annual epidemics.
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